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World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users

Posted by Zonk on from the good-thing-no-one-is-dualboxing dept.

Wowzer writes "Blizzard today announced that their MMORPG World of Warcraft is now played by more than 9 million gamers around the world. From the article: 'That's half a million more than the number of monthly players WoW had back in March five months ago. — It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden.' Also revealed this week was that DC Comics are creating World of Warcraft Comic Books based on the MMORPG, with the first issue appearing on November 14th. The ongoing monthly series will be written by industry veteran Walter Simonson (Thor, Orion) and feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope."

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  1. I Know Nothing of WoW, but... by rhartness · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I knew WoW was a HUGE MMORPG and that's about it but if my calculations are correct 9M Active Accounts * $10/monthly subscription fees(that's my guess, I don't know the actual figure) * 12 Months = $1.08 Billion a year! Holy Cow, that's insane!

  2. Highly Inflated by Zanthor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would wager that this number is highly inflated...

    Personally, I own and maintain 3 accounts and my girlfriend has her own as well, so 2 players, 4 accounts... If you take a look at my guild of 50+ active members you will find an impressive roster of well over 200 characters many of which are on seperate accounts. I know I have at least 15 players with more than one account, and our biggest account holder is sitting around 8.

    Take a look at Dual Boxing and evaluate how many multi-account users there are out there... Many claim (and have video proof) of 5, 10, and even 50 boxes running at a time... with one of the contributors to the community boasting over 200 wow accounts on one server...

    I figure that without even counting farmers, we have made a significant notch in the 9 million number...

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  3. Re:Yes... by thc69 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You will not find me a real WoW addict who is not depressed, and you will not cure anyone of depression simply by removing WoW.
    You are quite possibly right, but you missed one: You will never cure a WoW addiction simply by removing depression.
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