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World of Warcraft: 11 Million Subscribers
Szark
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft has reached 11 million subscriptions worldwide.
IRVINE, Calif. - October 28, 2008 - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the subscribership for World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), now exceeds 11 million players worldwide. This milestone was reached as the beta test for Wrath of the Lich King®, World of Warcraft's second expansion, nears completion. Wrath of the Lich King will launch in several regions around the world starting on November 13.
"It's been very rewarding to see gamers around the world continue to show such strong support for World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment®. “We remain fully committed to responding to that enthusiasm with a high-quality, constantly evolving game experience.
Since debuting in North America on November 23, 2004, World of Warcraft has become the most popular MMORPG around the world. It was the bestselling PC game of 2005 and 2006 worldwide, and finished behind only World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade®, the first expansion pack for the game, in 2007.* In addition to being the bestselling PC game of 2007 in both North America and Europe, The Burning Crusade holds the record for fastest-selling PC game of all time, with nearly 2.4 million copies sold in its first 24 hours of availability and approximately 3.5 million in its first month.
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An impressive accomplishment indeed. Congratz to Blizzard.
Holy crap!
I was sure they would have stalled out by now... This means Lich King will probably break all the Burning Crusade records, too. Hey, maybe Blizzard will make enough dough to buy Microsoft and make us a decent operating system. If they start on it next year, it oughta make Xmas 2020, if you extend the complexity of polishing games to an OS... :-)
WotLK is really bring everyone back!
Feel the difference between 'subscribers' and 'active subscribers'.
Yeah well the people who left WoW for WAR and or AoC. I don't play WoW it was dumb IMHO and i gave it a start up once and found out it was EQ in a new wrapper. But yeah i know the people who did play it and gave it a chance will come back and WAR and AoC will be ghost town MMO's
lol what are u talking about? all subscribers are active, or is everyone paying but not playing? ^_^
MMOs currently playing: -
About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)
I thought blizzard was one of the few companies that actually only counts there "active" subscribers.
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World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
Sounds like active subscribers to me. I don't know many who would pay money every month for something they don't actually play.
Yet the stock continues to fall.
Trammies need to stop polluting the MMORPG landscape. They already have enough games in which to emote hugs and sell garbage by the banks.
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
Sounds like active subscribers to me. I don't know many who would pay money every month for something they don't actually play.
I paid a subscription fee 2 years ago... am I still a subscriber now that I no longer play?
If they released an OS, they'd screw it up by adding zombies to it.
yet the stock of every other company continues to fall, nice try anyway
MMOs currently playing: -
About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)
World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
Sounds like active subscribers to me. I don't know many who would pay money every month for something they don't actually play.
I paid a subscription fee 2 years ago... am I still a subscriber now that I no longer play?
"The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards."
god is it so hard to read?
MMOs currently playing: -
About to play: Lord of the Rings Online
Played: Anarchy Online (alltime favorite) and lots of f2p titles (honorable mentions: 9Dragons, Martial Heroes, Dekaron, Atlantica Online)
Still going strong, grats blizzard. I still see people talking about the amount of money blizzard makes, well it's actually Vivendi themselves since they own the company.
Uhm...either way, subscribers means people that are PAYING a monthly gaming bill to Blizz.
FEEL the difference between "subscribers" and "registered players" (which is the only thing MYTHIC will commit to telling us about Warhammer's "success"). Pffft.
Regardless of what anyone says, thinks, feels, or imagines, right NOW Blizzard's World of Warcraft IS the 10 ton gorilla of MMOs. That may change some day, but I don't expect to see it any time soon.
Gee, and we're already starting to see the hater posts from people who play some OTHER game and are ticked off about this thread proclaiming, yet again, more success for Blizzard. LOL
EDIT:
@3on1: Regarding the definition of subscribers.......
"The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards"
I don't see how this can be misinterpreted either.....
@Souvec:
"I paid a subscription fee 2 years ago... am I still a subscriber now that I no longer play?"
ANSWER: No, but Mythic would still count you. I think they'd call you a "registered player." LMAO
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Uhm...either way, subscribers means people that are PAYING a monthly gaming bill to Blizz.
FEEL the difference between "subscribers" and "registered players" (which is the only thing MYTHIC will commit to telling us about Warhammer's "success"). Pffft.
Blizzard can give a more accurate detailed account of who's playing the game because its Four freaking years old. Blizzard also has had a far bigger and wide spread name in the gaming world for years before DAoC ever came aroudn so Mythic's name is only really known by niche gamers its perfectly acceptable that Blizzard's games would have a bigger following even Mythic has said this in the past. People going ha hha its got more than Mythic need to adjust themselves and stop acting like they know what the hell they're talking about.
Mythic's game is a little over month old and people are only JUST now starting to end their 30 free days so they techicnally can only go by who is registered trying to proclaim any other numbers besides that would be completely stupid since its going to flux alot for the first 3 to 4 months. Damn atleast know what you talk about before you act like a hater. Mythic's never proclaimed their game is going to be a WoW killer infact they'd be happy with number 2 only idiots desperate to see WoW fail for whatever reason have ever proclaimed that.
btw grats to Blizz..I still hate your game..please stop killing Diablo 3.
While it is an impressive feat this doesn't mean that WoW currently has 11 million subscribers.
And don't forget out of the 11 million, 1 million are Gold Farmers.
If they released an OS, they'd screw it up by adding zombies to it.
Screw it up? That sounds like a major improvement to me... Windows 2020 - Zombies Edition? I'd buy it!
The Gold Farmer thing is the biggest myth ever. 10 Percent of the players are not gold farmers. I actually never see gold farmers...I think WoW killed that problem making gold easy to get/ farmers have gold piled up.
Next...How do you get it doesnt mean WoW has 11 million subscribers now, what you think it means. Did you read the post before you replied?
gratz blizzard!
they got luck, and they did a great job. thats actually all you can say about it
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True, but a couple more years of this, and Vivendi will be the tail while Blizzard is the dog!
Yeah, yeah, I know Vivendi is huge... Anybody know what percentage of their sales now comes from Blizzard? Too lazy to dig through their financials myself.
Good to see the uneducated people still pull out useless numbers out of their bloody arse.
Nice try, now weap at blizzard's succes, you lifeless vessels of what we call, blizzard haters.
It's like one of those jokes, where the loser keeps yapping about how close he was to winning the race, well the fact remains, the winner won, and the loser, being you, lost.
And the best part being, blizzard is the only company actually giving out what can be called accurate numbers, the rest relies on imaginary things like, "registered users, characters made, boxes sold" but at the end of the day, only blizzard got the balls to show their cards, the rest all roll on "pass/fold/out".
Gratz Blizzard, now make some more games and spent those money on those games to make more than just 1 or 2 every decade. But obviously keep the polishment and quality.
Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.
If they gad 11 millions, they would also give out the numbers.
any way, from someone that followed this games (not only wow but mmorpgs) since their debut I would have never guessed that in less than 10 years 1 mmorpg would have more players than many countries have in population.
No matter if you like wow or not, it is 1 hell of an impressive feat for an industry that even in 2004 would claim that 500 000 subs was a great base for a mmorpg. It also shows that when you actually understand what your costumers want, and deliver it well, you can cash in.
ps: and yes, they know what THEIR customers want, thats why they have 11 millions.
WOW still sucks. On a positive note, the stock rebounded after lunch and ended the day up a bit.
Trammies need to stop polluting the MMORPG landscape. They already have enough games in which to emote hugs and sell garbage by the banks.
Whoopie Doo.... 1 mil more people that have no real idea of what a real MMO is.........still not buying it or play follow the leader, all BS aside, most of those active subscribers are more than likely gold farmers and people that pay for 36 accounts at a time and bot them all ..... really whats there to be said about this not much...