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WOW just passed the 11M mark
nariusseldon
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http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/081028.html
WOTLK is not even out yet. Where are all those WOW is dying threads now?
Anyone want to bet WOW is going to pass 12M in 2009?
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I bet it will hit 13 mil.
good news for Blizzard and WoW fanbois.
2.5 million american.. 1.5million europeans..
And the rest are from Asia..
Just thought I'd throw that in.
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does that mean Blizzard has 4 million accts and THE9 has 7 million accts?
wow having 11-what eve rmillion only matters in the U.S., In korea and china they have games with 30+ million people who play
I'd agree with this, once we get to asia numbers can get skewed. The sheer amount of population is immense.
2.5 million American and 1.5 Euro is still pretty ridiculous for an MMO. Good on them I guess? I still wonder if they are growing in the US and Euro. Trusting numbers from any MMO company is shifty at best, they all have different criteria, and all that favors to make them look good.
WoW hold 62.4% of the pop.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html
And I was wrong.
It's 2.5mil american, 2.mil european.
http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart11.html
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7 mil Gold Sellers can't be wrong!
You cant use mmochart as it makes WOW look bad only Xfire and Amazon.com are valid information when discussing WOW.
Back to the topic maybe more people became inspired by the guy playing 30+ accounts at once. Number of subs became a useless way to determine WOW's success once they announced that.
If it was the best game its ratings would be on top of every game review website yet its not. So if it is the best why are there so many games rated higher than it on every review website?
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you really think that? it would take 7M accounts to create gold to supply the needs of 4M 'real accounts'.
WOW has advanced a long way.. there really aren't any big ticket items anymore. You can basically quest and do a few weeks worth of dailies to pay for your epic flying mount. The price of primals etc have been really stable for the last 2 years.. so no big need for money even ifyou are buying them.
All of the 'real' currencies in WOW are BOP.... badges, honor, arena points, reputations..
If someone gave me 50,000 gold today, there is really not much I could do to advance my character. Yeah, I have to buy gems now and then, pay repair bills etc.. but the gold I get from doing raids or dailies more than pays for those 'upkeep' type bills.
and its still by far the biggest mmo in both the states and europe, gg.
btw name me a p2p mmo with more then 30m players, gl!
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Actually that information was from January when the total subscriptions were 10 million. NA and EU made up approximately 45% of the total then.
http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080122.html
So if we assume the % is approximately still the same, then 45% of 11 million is just under 5 million subs in NA and EU. Not bad for a "starter" MMO.
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.
With our blind leader running the country what you expect?
Every stock has fallen into near nothingness as of right now and I can say the Blizzard stock is still worth more than many others out there.
You cant use mmochart as it makes WOW look bad only Xfire and Amazon.com are valid information when discussing WOW.
Back to the topic maybe more people became inspired by the guy playing 30+ accounts at once. Number of subs became a useless way to determine WOW's success once they announced that.
If it was the best game its ratings would be on top of every game review website yet its not. So if it is the best why are there so many games rated higher than it on every review website?
WoW is the highest rated MMO in the gaming media. www.metacritic.com
WoW:Classic - 93% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcraft )
WoW:TBC - 91% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcrafttheburningcrusade )
WoW:Wotlk - ?
EverQuest 1 - 85%
EverQuest 2 - 83%
Age of conan - 80%
Vanguard - 68%
WAR - 86%
Guild wars - 89%
DnD - 74%
TR - 78%
... and so on. No other MMO has the ratings WoW has.
YARRR go WoW.
4.5 million accounts in NA and EU
gold famrers have NA and EU account to sell to EU and NA accouns.
so what you say makes no sense.
there are 6.5 million Asian gamers but they have mush less gold sellers than the NA and EU servers as NA and EU are the biggest market for mmo gold as they are the laziest race of all time.
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You cant use mmochart as it makes WOW look bad only Xfire and Amazon.com are valid information when discussing WOW.
Back to the topic maybe more people became inspired by the guy playing 30+ accounts at once. Number of subs became a useless way to determine WOW's success once they announced that.
If it was the best game its ratings would be on top of every game review website yet its not. So if it is the best why are there so many games rated higher than it on every review website?
WoW is the highest rated MMO in the gaming media. www.metacritic.com
WoW:Classic - 93% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcraft )
WoW:TBC - 91% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcrafttheburningcrusade )
WoW:Wotlk - ?
EverQuest 1 - 85%
EverQuest 2 - 83%
Age of conan - 80%
Vanguard - 68%
WAR - 86%
Guild wars - 89%
DnD - 74%
TR - 78%
... and so on. No other MMO has the ratings WoW has.
YARRR go WoW.
but look at the user rating(7/10), its more accurate than the 93% which was just given by one person, the reviewer.
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You cant use mmochart as it makes WOW look bad only Xfire and Amazon.com are valid information when discussing WOW.
Back to the topic maybe more people became inspired by the guy playing 30+ accounts at once. Number of subs became a useless way to determine WOW's success once they announced that.
If it was the best game its ratings would be on top of every game review website yet its not. So if it is the best why are there so many games rated higher than it on every review website?
WoW is the highest rated MMO in the gaming media. www.metacritic.com
WoW:Classic - 93% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcraft )
WoW:TBC - 91% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcrafttheburningcrusade )
WoW:Wotlk - ?
EverQuest 1 - 85%
EverQuest 2 - 83%
Age of conan - 80%
Vanguard - 68%
WAR - 86%
Guild wars - 89%
DnD - 74%
TR - 78%
... and so on. No other MMO has the ratings WoW has.
YARRR go WoW.
but look at the user rating(7/10), its more accurate than the 93% which was just given by one person, the reviewer.
But user reviews are very touchy, we cant weed out the people who posted "0" just cus they hate the game or "10" cus they love it, where as a reviewer is going to me subjective, its still his opinion but we know hes not goign to say "0%" or "100%"... hes going to give it his honest opinion speaking as neither a hater or fanboy.
Well Blizzards bank account may agree its the best but people that actually play it say its not and there are better games.
User ratings on every web site are higher for other games than they are for WOW and it is ranked 21 on this website, which all of us in this post use. So I dont think everyone is ranking all of the 20 games better than it by giving it a 10 then WOW a 0.
You guys get to use the subs to hype WOW and thats really all you have as that is the only innovative thing WOW has brought to the genre. Thats all every forum ever says about WOW and that is the standard for that reason that you use.
The new cash shop they are putting in the game proves Blizz will do whatever it takes to suck every dollar you have.
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WoW can even have 50 million Asian subscribers with 5 million western civilization players. It does not mean anything for me, I still will not join the grindfest.
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Gratz Blizzard. I don't play WAR and never have, but I can certainly tip my hat. I don't understand the blind hate by other so much. If anything, WAR has brought more people into the MMO world to support the development of MORE games.
I sometimes think wow players are more concerned with how many players are playing the game than actually playing the game for what it is. Most of these people play it because its popular and its what their friends play..a very school/teenager mentality
I dont like marmite but my best mate does, Im not going to east martmite just cus he does.
Bottom line WoW is a fun game that appeals to a wide audience, hardcore and casual, its stable, quality, has a bit of everything.. thats why wow is so sucessful.
You cant use mmochart as it makes WOW look bad only Xfire and Amazon.com are valid information when discussing WOW.
Back to the topic maybe more people became inspired by the guy playing 30+ accounts at once. Number of subs became a useless way to determine WOW's success once they announced that.
If it was the best game its ratings would be on top of every game review website yet its not. So if it is the best why are there so many games rated higher than it on every review website?
WoW is the highest rated MMO in the gaming media. www.metacritic.com
WoW:Classic - 93% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcraft )
WoW:TBC - 91% ( http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/worldofwarcrafttheburningcrusade )
WoW:Wotlk - ?
EverQuest 1 - 85%
EverQuest 2 - 83%
Age of conan - 80%
Vanguard - 68%
WAR - 86%
Guild wars - 89%
DnD - 74%
TR - 78%
... and so on. No other MMO has the ratings WoW has.
YARRR go WoW.
but look at the user rating(7/10), its more accurate than the 93% which was just given by one person, the reviewer.
But user reviews are very touchy, we cant weed out the people who posted "0" just cus they hate the game or "10" cus they love it, where as a reviewer is going to me subjective, its still his opinion but we know hes not goign to say "0%" or "100%"... hes going to give it his honest opinion speaking as neither a hater or fanboy.
true, but still iv seen many games reviewd by pros which was over-rated or under-rated, reviewrs still have some bias.
thats why i never read reviews i just buy a game that i want and decide if i like it or not.
if i did i would have never played lineage 2 as it usually gets in the 50s-60s for scores which is pretty low.
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