A Couple Of People Picked Up The Burning Crusade

MUM... BATHROOM... BATHROOM~!!!

8,500,000 subscribers

Paying $15 a month

$127,500,000 a month in revenue, or did I do it wrong?

Jesus, people still play this game? It was pretty cool for the first few months, but once you hit 60 (now 70) you've pretty much seen the entire game.

Same mechanic could be said about most games. FPS games, target enemy click shoot button, rinse, repeat.

Jesus. So much money and so much potential to add a shit ton of more content. Think about it..they could have multiple teams working on entire expansions all at the same time.

This makes me sad :(

World of Warcraft is single-handedly killing PC gaming as we know it. With it's massive sales and massive profitability (8.5 million subscribers paying $14.99 per month = !!!), no wonder all the developers and publishers are jumping on the MMO bandwagon. For the next few years, I fear all we're going to see is copycat MMO after copycat MMO.

It's kind of reminding me of when the Internet first started. Remember the huge surge of "dot com" companies that were able to get funding and get a "me too!" Internet business out there? Yeah, most of those failed, and lots of investor money was lost. I'm secretly hoping that happens with the MMO industry.

Well, at least until we can get MMO's that aren't completely brain-dead in the gameplay department. I still have yet to discover what is so fun about the "target the enemy and then click on 'powers' that progressively recharge" gameplay mechanic. It reminds of the toy that babies play with to put different shaped blocks in the correct hole. So fucking boring.

TLDR die MMO's die!

8.5 mil Subscribers - 3.5 expansions sold. 5million people still leveling to 60?

I thought China and Korea were paying more than $15/mo.

Lets see, 8.5 million subscribers

TIMES ONE MILLION DOLLARS PER COPY

multiply by night elfs.

Every subscribers pays $15 a month so add that up.

Lets see, thats $$39862615153135 a month. OMG. I can't believe blizzard makes that every month?

(every time I see a number of subscribers and wow I can always count on some really smart person trying to do the math in a shack post and failing)

good god, on the phone with tech support and the music they play is fucking awful. i dunno if this is wow music but for the love of god epic music + shitty phone service doesnt work

Well, nothing's fun if you lower it to that level. What's fun shooting 'guns' by clicking and waving your mouse until things die? What's fun about jumping over polygon 'obstacles' to move on to the next area? What's fun about clicking on 'buildings' to make 'units' and that you click on your enemy buildings?

Any successful market is going to be diluted by attempted cash-ins. To say WoW is killing PC gaming is just ridiculous, though. Hell, I know a lot of people being introduced to gaming (PC gaming at that) by WoW's mass-market appeal. That's always been true of Blizzard's games, actually. The PC market isn't in great shape at the moment anyway; that any game other than a sims expansion or madden can put together numbers like this in it is pretty kick-ass.