World Of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

**MIG-31** · Jan 22, 2008, 12:56 PM

Source: Gamesutra
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Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft has recently passed 10 million subscribers worldwide since its launch on November 23, 2004. According to Blizzard, WoW now hosts more than 2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North America, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia.

Customgamer1 · Jan 22, 2008, 05:31 PM

Since Asia always seems to have the most users in any game why is that?

Maybe it's just because they have the most people? I just don't understand that.

BlueMak · Jan 22, 2008, 07:17 PM

More people live there.

IEMC · Jan 22, 2008, 08:43 PM

10 million people that need to get laid and counting.

Judas · Jan 22, 2008, 08:50 PM

so lineageII still holds more then twice that of what world of warcraft has.....

nice

can't beat 21 million subcribers

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jan 26, 2008, 11:11 AM

That could be our looming recession right there. All them zombies
at home instead of out and about and “consuming”. Instead of being
holed up for days going to town on a game… Game makes people
Disappear for months. It online community offering virtual friends etc..
eats away at people normal social abilities / socializations.

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Originally Posted by Customgamer1

Since Asia always seems to have the most users in any game why is that?

Maybe it's just because they have the most people? I just don't understand that.

more gameaholics, People play games until they DIE from sleep deprivation / nutritional deprivation.
People selling / buying "virtual items". . Seems at lest weekly there some etreeme story. The goverment
has had to make anti gameing laws/restrictions for internet cafes etc...Killling and sueing people over in
game desputes and virtual items. Its a hole nother kind of crazy when in comes to asia and RPGs

**Mousey** · Jan 26, 2008, 11:27 AM

To be frank i thought blizzard would have hit 10 million before now :/
Props to em though, they're doing well

ChaosMinionX · Jan 26, 2008, 04:42 PM

Asia could have more too from Gold Farmers

Jan 22, 2008, 12:56 PM	#1
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Jan 22, 2008, 05:31 PM	#2
Customgamer1 Fell off the tech wagon Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,265 Rep Power: 57 System Specs	Since Asia always seems to have the most users in any game why is that? Maybe it's just because they have the most people? I just don't understand that. __________________ Asus Laptop: 2.5 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gigs DDR 2, Windows 7 64bit! Windows 7 > OSX!

Jan 22, 2008, 07:17 PM	#3
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Jan 22, 2008, 08:43 PM	#4
IEMC Neighborhood screw up. Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: MI, US Posts: 710 Rep Power: 35 System Specs	10 million people that need to get laid and counting. __________________

Jan 26, 2008, 11:27 AM	#7
Mousey Bang. Bang. Bang. Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 5,424 Rep Power: 105 System Specs	To be frank i thought blizzard would have hit 10 million before now :/ Props to em though, they're doing well __________________ Visit hardWIRED - Back up and running, The Wiki is back Who we are, is but a stepping stone to what we can become.

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