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1 million Chinese playing WoW
Jrod
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http://kotaku.com/379047/one-million-concurrent-wow-players-in-china
The9 Limited, the operators of World of Warcraft in China, has announced that they recently achieved a peak of one million players online at the same time. That's not the fudgy sort of numbers you get for subscribers either - that is one million World of Warcraft accounts online and playing at one time. That's the biggest number they've seen since the game launched there back in 2005. Of course there are 1.3 billion or so people living in China, so a million is just a drop in a bucket, but that's a very big drop in a absolutely gigantic bucket. To put things in perspective, if a million people stood on your head, your skull would be completely crushed. Them's skull-crushing numbers right there, and before you go blaming gold farming, keep in mind that these are Chinese servers, not people accessing servers outside of the country, so nya.
World of Warcraft Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players
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Yup and the next thing Blizzard will make you believe is that pigs can really fly.
Wow, thats alot of gold farmers
Are you saying that these numbers that Blizzard gave out are lies? Isn't a federal offence to lie how much you control the market?
Edit: This is to SaintViktor
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Someone just had to say it.....
Currently playing: No MMOs. They all suck.
But some people need to correlate the advent and rise of gold farming, bots, and key logging hacks to the opening of this market.
They way I see it The9 leases WoW programming from Blizzard and then does not adequately protect the servers from its consumers allowing complete access to programming to include holes and weak areas open to attack.
Makes me wonder if the hackerz figured out a way to replicate gold and transfer it to the open servers in order to sell it on the world market. I mean this is a government that supports North Korea and probably initiated the idea of printing money (on used Treasury Presses) to stimulate their economy.
Of course I love a good conspiracy theory too.
Someone just had to say it.....
These are chinese players on a localized version of the game on chinese servers. It is utterly incompatible with Western accounts.
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Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
I wonder how much it costs to play on them servers tho... if my adress were china or korea or thailand...not Norway/britain/france/usa/australia...
Everyone boasts numbers of how many players, but no one dares to say what the players pay...
If your address was China or Korea, you would have access to many Far Eastern subscription-based MMOs, which are no cheaper than WoW.
They probably pay less than us, but it's a different economy, mostly aggricultural (It was on WIkipedia a few months ago so it must be true!!!11!!) - and there's a lot of competition for WoW atm.
They also have EVE online over there. They did have Everquest 2 but it flopped.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
The average person in china earns $2,800/year compared to $43,000 in the US so in china 1 cent is equal to 15 cents (cus they earn x15 less).... So much for playing for free. as many believe.
about 18hours game time /1$ in china server ,it is more expensive indeed,coz no month card
That is 99% trial accounts, canceled subscriptions and gold farmers. 1 million is the total copies they have ever sold, not players... and that is worldwide. Yeah and it also includes all the copies of warcraft I, II and III as well.
There I think I covered all the naysayers.
Honestly though 1 million players online at one time is crazy and that doesn't even include the non-asian population.
ROFLMAO. Did you read some of the comments below the announcement? I loved this one:
"I think a million virtual people standing on my actual head could crush it. I don't know how it would be possible but it seems WoW can do anything these days.
I've still never touched the game... not for any particular reason, but just never had occasion to. I'm beginning to think there might be something to it. From what I've been hearing, it seems like it might be catching on, yeah? "
Ya think?