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.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Nov 13, 2008
Travel to the arctic continent of Northrend in Blizzard's second expansion to the most popular MMORPG ever made.
Updated World of Warcraft Subscriber Numbers
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.
They hit 13 million, that's when they flip the switch and the world ends in a Nerd-zombie-poclypse. Just saying.
Seems a bit strange that they get that many new subscribers just because of an expansion that is usless to you unless you have a high level character.
The extra half a mil is probably people coming back and wanting to get up to see the new content, guys who had sleeping 70's. Also the economy is in the toilet, so indoor entertainment like movies and games become the more affordable choice. And I think WoW has proven to be a pretty good time sink.
Game rooms are big in colleges and in foreign countries. There is one close to me that lets folks play WoW or some other FPS games. It's basically a Internet Cafe but usually it's pretty seedy and full of pesky teenagers. In the foreign joints they actually have premade toons for folks to play without their own account. Why anyone would want to fart around with someone elses toon, (or let someone play one of yours for that matter) is beyond me, but I guess it's just fairly low level toons with no epic gear so anything they do is no big loss. Maybe some sort of contract is signed if they go and shard gear or send stuff to their own toon they are liable.
I guess they could've waited, but a press release right before the holidays is publicity.
In other news, Warhammer lets you worship false idols that resemble e-peen douchebags that play way more than you.
Ok, doing the math the easy way:
11,500,000 X $10.00 (LESS than ANYONE can pay for a subscription a month) = $115,000,000.00 a MONTH!
$115,000,000.00 X 12 = $1,380,000,000.00 (that's 1 BILLION 380 MILLION dollars) a year.
And this was paying less than you can pay per month with any plan. Also, you could add in the $49.99 they charge you for the game in the box, but that's just a one time per purchase event.
I believe an internet game room is similar to a cyber cafe, but for gaming, ala the whole issue with Valve and the publisher about distribution of something to cyber cafe's?
Mooooooooooooooooo
That's the sound of the cash cow that Blizzard has created. Blizzard execs drive around in solid gold plated cars.
"I believe an internet game room is similar to a cyber cafe, but for gaming, ala the whole issue with Valve and the publisher about distribution of something to cyber cafe's?"Actually, Valve doesn't have any kind of issue. They just charge a gaming center $200 per PC to run a special form of Steam that doesn't carry all the games. It's pretty shitty, especially since per Microsoft's agreement with gaming centers, we have to own a copy of each game in the first place.
"MordeaniisChaos said:When I went to Turkey, I found a gaming cafe in one of the poorest areas of the country(my dad's side of the family lives there), and I was suprised to see how many games these computers had(and ran really well), every computer had a 26 Samsung monitor and the cases of the pcs were alienware. Guess how much it cost for 4 hours use?"I believe an internet game room is similar to a cyber cafe, but for gaming, ala the whole issue with Valve and the publisher about distribution of something to cyber cafe's?"Actually, Valve doesn't have any kind of issue. They just charge a gaming center $200 per PC to run a special form of Steam that doesn't carry all the games. It's pretty shitty, especially since per Microsoft's agreement with gaming centers, we have to own a copy of each game in the first place.As for MMOs, that's not really a big deal, given that people have to buy their own subscriptions for the game anyways."
Those are crazy numbers. I'm still scared of losing what already little life I have to start playing this game, though. I try to avoid MMO games at all cost, for my social life's sake.
Great, that means alot of monays being put towards Diablo 3 and fuck who knows maybe even Ghost in a few years.
I doubt you could port wow to a console, way too few buttons. Blizzard earned every cent of this, the game is awsome, hope they put it into making future starcrafts and diablos just as good, not just conquering the world with solid platinum life size replicas of frostmourne.
How do so many people play that game steadily for years? They got to the highest level already... so they're just playing to get more items for their character? Then once they do that, Blizzard releases more gear sets and an expansion or two. When will they realize the game ended long ago.
If there is one company that still has left to disappoint me, it has to be blizzard. So, if i pay someone to play a game, well, it might as well be the guys over at Blizzard. And wow is by far the cheapest addiction I have ever had. If i play wow for 1 Saturday I have just saved myself at least 100$ on a cheap night out. And i can tell myself that I am a nerd not a alcoholic.
"Well MrRedwine you have to also consider the maintenance fees for the servers on WoW; they can get pretty
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