WoW Passes The 10 Million Subscriber Mark

[Psykoboy2]

So, who didn't see this coming? As Joystiq puts it:

Just how big is 10 million? If Blizzard drafted all WoW players into a private army, the armed force would easily trump the size of the world's ten largest armies combined. In civilian terms: WoW players now equal half of Australia's total population.

Broken down by region it looks like this:

Europe = 2,000,000

North America = 2,500,000

Asia = 5,500,000

Will it ever end?

[KingGorilla]

Must, hit 70, need flying mount, must get mad epic lewt.

[Returner]

Originally Posted by Psykoboy2

Will it ever end?

God I hope so.

[Terran]

Originally Posted by Psykoboy2

Will it ever end?

No. No, it will not.

[UnderHero5]

Didn't it hit 9 million like... a year ago?

I remember seeing little gold stickers on the boxes, advertising 9 million.

Seems like it's slowing down its rate of growth, at least, if it took almost a year to get that next million. I guess that's a start to it ending.

[MelbaToast]

If I was The Brain I'd find some way to use WoW to take over the world.




or fit the spice girls into really small shoes

[KingGorilla]

It hit 9 million, last year. It hit 8 with Burning Crusade, so that is more like 2 million in a year.

[josteos]

How many of the 5M asian subscribers are temporary gold-farming accounts ?

[Returner]

I wonder if they include the free acounts employees get. Most get 3 free acounts. I had 3 free and 3 at a reduced price.

[grognard66]

And people still complain about paying $50 per year for Live when they're paying more than twice that just to play a single, old game.

[Kamalot]

Wow! Congrats to Blizzard and the Wow team. My condolences to everyone who 'lost' a loved one due to the enormous amount of energy that players invest in this game.

[Shjinta]

Originally Posted by grognard66

And people still complain about paying $50 per year for Live when they're paying more than twice that just to play a single, old game.

Yup where you don't have to hear 12 year olds complain in voice chat, and you don't need a stupid fucking rank to join many Vegas servers

[Telefrog]

Originally Posted by Shjinta

Yup where you don't have to hear 12 year olds complain in voice chat, and you don't need a stupid fucking rank to join many Vegas servers

Yeah... Try getting into a decent guild with a non uber toon or crappy build. Try texting something intelligent in the battlegrounds.

[williambraski]

Originally Posted by Telefrog

Yeah... Try getting into a decent guild with a non uber toon or crappy build. Try texting something intelligent in the battlegrounds.

If they let anyone in, how long until they're no longer considered a decent guild?

[digitalErich]

I'm a few weeks away from re-subscribing...I would now, but it looks like I might be moving to SF in the coming month or two.

[Isamura]

You would think they'd give the 10 millionth subscriber some sort of gift, maybe a deluxe Lich King action figure with poseable limbs and wheels under his robe for "Gliding Action"!

[Returner]

Originally Posted by Isamura

You would think they'd give the 10 millionth subscriber some sort of gift, maybe a deluxe Lich King action figure with poseable limbs and wheels under his robe for "Gliding Action"!

I don't like wow but I would subscibe to get that, you had me on the gliding action.

[vivafletcher]

Unless the "army" is going on a reconnaissance mission for marshmallows and Mountan Dew, I don't have a lot of confidence in their abilities.

[Beelzebud]

More proof that PC gaming is dead.

[Emabulator]

Is that active accounts? If so, wowzers. The reason I ask is between myself and the Mrs. we have five inactive accounts (well, four now with my son using my main account).

Two months after the expansion I had three of my mains at 70, several others in the 60s, one epic flying mount and two regulars. I started a shaman and by the time I got to the wetlands I was just plain sick of WoW.

Just for the record, I'm disabled and retired young, so spare time I have.