World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users

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."

Comments

Numbers game?

[faloi]

Is that nine million current active paid subscriptions? Nine million unique accounts (including trial accounts and accounts that aren't being played right now)? Still a darn good number, I'm sure there are lots of other gaming companies that would like the headache of supporting that many players.

Re:Is played or has been played?

[bigtangringo]

Perhaps you could quote the part of the article which defines that for me.