Blizzard Entertainment have announced their stupidly successful MMO World of Warcraft, which debuted in North America on November 23rd 2004, has reached a new milestone, with a player base now totalling more than 9 million subscribers worldwide. The company have also revealed that they are currently working with its partner for World of Warcraft in China, The9, to prepare the game's first expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, for launch in mainland China.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
Okay the numbers at 9 million and yet not one of my friends admit to playing this game? ????????????????? Ummmmmm I think their lying or something because this is unbeleivable. Is anyone else having this problem??????
Cool.....
and now... I'm gonna go back to drooling over MGS4....
WOW....................Amazing .
Well it looks like Blizzard is making some more money. I think those developers can now add a 3rd ferrari to their car collections, lol.
And 3.5 million is China alone, the other 3 million spread out among the rest of the world. So it's like 1 out of every 150 million in America plays it.
but hard to believe that so many people play this. when im on i never really think of it as being that popular peeps that play it usually complaining about server shutdowns and stuff.
about a week ago on anvilmar we had a huge lag problem and the server went down gets pretty annoying at times. happens 2-3 weeks not very often but when it does makes everyone frustrated.