World of Warcraft Patch 2.4.1 Released

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Blizzard Entertainment has issued a new patch for its incredibly popular PC MMO World of Warcraft, bringing the game up to version 2.4.1.

The small, incremental 4.93MB patch offers a number of minor fixes over last week's 2.4 patch, which added new quests, dungeons, and more.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    April 2, 2008 8:27 AM

    I was talking to my friend the other day who still plays WOW and asked him "who plays wow still anyways?" and he told me "millions, theres still tons and tons of players"...

    That got me thinking... maybe the reason I dont see or hear about people playing that game anymore is because they are all so damn hardcore you dont meet them in real life. And they dont talk online except on their Guild forums and the Wow forums...

    Cant be that bad, but seriously, I cant imagine that many people still paying to play it.

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      April 2, 2008 8:30 AM

      Over 10 million subscribers worldwide, with the game continually expanding into new international markets.

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        April 2, 2008 8:36 AM

        Indeed 10 million subs but not ACTIVE subs. I loved WoW back when it was still exciting for me but i've played it too much now. The sub numbers must be dropping because the amount of MMO forums you visit that say "ex wow player" etc etc is uncountable.

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          April 2, 2008 8:37 AM

          Wrong. 10 million active subscriptions.

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          April 2, 2008 8:37 AM

          Yes, Blizzard's released numbers are currently ACTIVE subscriptions. Meaning people who in the last 30 days paid to play (either for a new month or for an hour or whatever they pay for in Korea and China). So it's active and unique paying players in the past month in their numbers.

          Including inactive amounts it's probably 3-4 times as large, at least.

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            April 2, 2008 8:55 AM

            It includes trial accounts in the number too.

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              April 2, 2008 12:54 PM

              Not free, download trials, no. If you mean the free month you get after you buy the game, then yes.

              Via Blizzard:

              "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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          April 2, 2008 9:38 AM

          Active accounts, mate. They're really really big.

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      April 2, 2008 8:36 AM

      The official WoW forums are as active as ever, and I guess a lot of the WoW-related discussion is moved to guild forums and such since it's not really of interest to most people who don't actually play.

      And as Chris said, they still got over 10 million active subscribers over the world and it keeps growing. Actually, it never seems to even slop a little, it just keeps growing and growing:
      http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html

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        April 2, 2008 8:41 AM

        What the hell is Dofus?

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        April 2, 2008 12:03 PM

        Wow, I had no idea EQ2 was such an enormous flop... less players than Dofus?! wow.

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          April 2, 2008 4:14 PM

          I would take the dofus numbers with a grain of salt. They may count accounts created while EQ2 may be, just like WoW, active accounts. Making it quite the unfair comparison.

          But the fact that they didn't manage to beat EQ1s subscription numbers until it had been out for two years, and even then mainly because EQ1 subscriptions plummeted, could be a good reason to call it a flop.

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      April 2, 2008 8:50 AM

      That's not true.

      I met a few people at work who play WoW. I really didn't expect it at all...

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      April 2, 2008 8:54 AM

      Nah. There are a few raiding shackers (like me), and I'm sure most shackers know someone who plays casually. My sisters hates grouping but is enjoying leveling a huntard, 28 right now.

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      April 2, 2008 8:55 AM

      every time is a wow news post here someone pops up with the "people still play WoW?" comment.

      And you have to wonder, are they troll comments or are people just that ignorant? Are people still playing WoW? Have you SEEN the numbers?

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      April 2, 2008 9:03 AM

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        April 2, 2008 1:03 PM

        It's crazy how popular the Warcraft3 and Starcraft battlepacks still are. To put it in perspective, when Starcraft came out, Google didn't exist. (Goog officially launched 5 months later)

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      April 2, 2008 9:16 AM

      I just re-subscribed and I'm still playing my original character (dates back to the game launch). I'm only level 61 and there are plenty of people at my level playing around.

      The game is very much alive...not just with hardcore (I only play on the weekends mostly).

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      April 2, 2008 9:18 AM

      To some extent, I actually enjoy playing mmo's with LESS people around. Like looking at that chart with subscribers, I played DAoC for 4 years and the server I played on never had more than 4000 players. I knew the community so well. I knew my realm and the great players it had and I knew my enemies in other realms and formed a really strong community.

      I've also done the same in WoW but it's just not the same =/.

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      April 2, 2008 9:20 AM

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        April 2, 2008 10:03 AM

        I agree. If you close your eyes does the world disappear?

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      April 2, 2008 10:03 AM

      http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html
      Maybe people don't talk about it all the time because they're nice and realize those who don't play don't give a flying crap about it.

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      April 2, 2008 10:40 AM

      My two kids now play with one taking over my old account. Their friends also are joining up. There are more new players daily than you realize.

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      April 2, 2008 10:54 AM

      Don't play as much as I used to, but I'm still not tired of it. HALP!!

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      April 2, 2008 11:49 AM

      Did you ever consider most of us are just normal people who simply don't talk about it because we are not obsessed with it? Most people I know have no idea that I play. I still hang out with them, get drinks, and live life. There's not some sort of exclusivity clause where playing WoW means you can't do anything else with your life.

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      April 2, 2008 12:57 PM

      Instead of hardcore, I would suggest that many of WoW's players are so non-hardcore that they don't feel the need to talk about the game they're playing much. It doesn't dominate their lives; they just play a couple times a week.

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      April 2, 2008 7:57 PM

      I still play it, and stacks of people are the server im on so i assume its the same on every other realm. Its just a good MMO, no other fantasy mmo has come close to it yet.

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