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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.
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If you've played within 30 days then they consider you a player. That would mean anyone from 9/7/10 to NOW is counted as a sub. And I doubt that Blizzard is counted anyone from 2004 (unless they still actively play). And as far as naming one thing WoW has no other mmo has......12 million players....oh wait....I'm sorry do you mean feature wise? Hmm:
Phasing tech linked to actively questing
LFG tool
Ranked Arena contest with world-wide accolades
Two seemless continents (Northrend, Outland) to fly through.
Cross server PvP/PvE
On the fly dual spec switching w/ gear switch included
Twelve races, 10 classes w/ 3 specialized specs
3000+ quest (minus dailies)
Dual mounts w/ vendors
Four classes w/ specialized mechanics (runes/energy/mana/rage)
Two difficulty levels for their dungeons/raids
150+ mounts to obtain
Even if you track down one of those things in another mmo I bet you cannot track down one that has them all now could you? World of Warcraft has a level polish, charm and morality that keeps the specs requirements grounded, the awards pouring in, the players playing, the humility to not take itself so seriously and still make a chet load of money. I don't know if it needs the approval of the minority on MMORPG.com to even cosider it a bonified classic.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
WoW is like genital herpies. As much as you may want them to, they will never go away completely.
My general point was that it dropped without Chinese subs and that they do not report for long periods due to stuff like that. When I said 6 million it was a generalization to numbers I have seen around which as your graph shows is pretty close. Might have been wrong with the style of sub, but with an hourly rate for subs in China it is very different than monthly everywhere else.
let's face it
blizzard was smart when shipped wow around the world, specially in china...
i never saw a game that has such worldwide support
LOTRO player
Try again. That is the intrasitive usage of "subscribe" Since you already subscribed once that is irrelevant
The sub is different, but in a way is very similar to when a sub is lost here. If you don't pay for a month, you don't get counted.
Attitudes like that is why the 20k people playing whatever game you play is doing so well.
I agree. The same people that are getting all hopped up on insulting WoW are the same people that are playing other games. They make the alternative communities look worse than WoW's community.
When/IF there is a WoW killer that comes along to dethrone this beast. It will go F2P with a market and peeps will flock to it like the second coming of [ insert your holy person ].
WoW will be that old bastage of a hated relative that keeps showing up and everyone Loves him/her for some reason. Only you see their true ugliness and character yet everyone says you "just do not get them or their humor"
Meh!
Say hello, To the things you've left behind. They are more a part of your life now that you can't touch them.
Hell I don't even play anymore but I still give it props for making that milestone.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Wrong again. The definition of subscriber in this context is precisely as I posted. Plus I notice you are totally ignoring the posts that show Blizzards definition which again is exactly as stated. Keep trying. Perhaps you will fool someone.
Gw 2 rises->wow falls->Diablo 3 rises
Im fine with it
I just hopped into this thread because it kept popping up on the main page, and I don't really care much for the subject itself (high yawn factor), but there have been several surveys and research reports that mentioned a drop off for WoW in US/EU areas. Don't really care enough for the subject to look them up, but I recall them having shown up on gamasutra.com and massively.com, I think.
Of course, that's before CATA. i expect another increase announcement in subs when CATA launches or within the first 3 months, and then radio silence again regarding subs for a (very?) long time when Rift, SW:TOR and GW2 hit the scene.
We can indirectly determine and presume that when those 3 collectively have 1-2 million+ subs/players, that among those there'll also be a large amount of WoW players.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
There is too much baiting going on in this thread. Please remember to follow the RoC when posting guys. Thanks. Locked.