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World of Warcraft Now Has 11.5 Million Subscribers, Lich King Sells 4M in First Month
by Chris Faylor, Dec 23, 2008 7:34am PSTBlizzard's World of Warcraft is now more popular than ever, as the developer announced today that the MMO, launched in 2004, now has over 11.5 million subscribers worldwide.
As of October 28, the popular fantasy game had 11 million subscribers worldwide. Blizzard cited the November 13th arrival of Wrath of the Lich King, the game's second expansion pack, as a factor in the recent growth--Lich King sold 2.8 million copies on its first day at stores, with Blizzard dubbing it "the fastest-selling PC game of all time."
Since its debut, Lich King has continued to top the PC sales charts, with Blizzard today noting that the expansion sold over 4 million copies during its first month at retailers.
"The base World of Warcraft game and the World of Warcraft Battle Chest are performing better than last year," noted GameStop VP Bob McKenzie. "That type of traction is very impressive for a game that is going into its fifth holiday season and speaks to the enthusiastic player base Blizzard Entertainment products have."
World of Warcraft's Subscriber DefinitionWorld 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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Of course that's 2 of 100 servers, maybe the other servers have had growing numbers. And a bit of wishful thinking too.
I love playing games and I really don't need to be paying 1/4 of a retail game's value every month when I can't go back and play it 1 year from now without paying more to the fuckers who really don't need it right now.
With growing popularity of cash cow games like GuitarHero, RockBank, and WOW it's no fucking wonder we're seeing more and more of them. I seriously wish you people would stop giving money to these people because they aren't helping the gaming industry and are putting it into a state in which you either don't own the actual game or you do and have to pay for all of the songs and shit that you already have.
I for one have no need to ever pay blizzard for WOW, or GH, RB etc.. I have plenty of fun with games like Fallout3 and Left4Dead. I just wish that more people would take this stand because we would see more games like this, but instead everyone just seems to enjoy not actually owning their game.
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I did a lot in the last expansion and i really am struggling to "gear up" in WOTLK. I know now that its just pointless.I just cant be bothered with WOTLK, i love the quests but at level 80 the timesink to gearup is just huge. Id like to have some of my life and not devote it to such a waste of time as this game.
The rules of Wow need to change, the assholes that look down on you just because your gear isnt as good as theres in this game is just sickening really.
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"Since the last time we reported 11million subscribers, we have since taken 500,000 more of the other MMO players in the market (looking at you Warhammer)."
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Its all well posting subscriber figures but i would like to see some casual gamer figures just to see a comparision as alot of people will see those figures and assume all 11mil players play 6+ hours a day.
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