Source: Blizzard
There is simply no escaping World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s cash cow just keeps getting fatter with every passing moment. Today Blizzard announced that they had surpassed the 10 million active subscriber milestone. 10 million!
Check out the demographic breakdown and even a little WoW praise, after the jump!
Even with 5.5 million of those users being Asian gamers, we all know South Korea is Blizzard junior, that’s a downright insane amount of people in North America (2.5 million) and Europe (2 million) running around as little gnomes and Jamaican accented trolls. Not only that, the numbers don’t include people who have inactive accounts who may return when the newest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is released later this year.
I’m often one of the first people to get up on my high horse and list all the things I dislike about WoW, but even I have to give credit where credit is due. Blizzard’s track record for community relations, support, long term planning, quality releases and dedication is exemplary. They basically set the standard for every MMO to come after it. Even with all the new titles on the horizon, it will be many years before those 10 million gamers have emergency workers use the jaws-of-life, to free them from their gaming thrones.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Artemas // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:11 am
And they still charge monthly fees
2 animathias // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:17 am
“And they still charge monthly fees”
$150,000,000 a month that it seems no one minds paying? Wouldn’t you? I would.
Then I’d buy a small island.
3 Dalamornight // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:52 am
Yeah they have setup a new standard for MMO and it will be really hard for the next one to get in. Look at the set backs for Warhammer MMO I’m sure it because they know if they don’t come out perfect they are going to die fast as people move right back to WoW.
Is it good or bad who knows.
4 doro626 // Jan 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I have been bitten by the WOW bug, but I don’t know if I will play after my free month is up. I still have many X-Box games to finish (MAss Effect, Blue Dragon, Marvel Ult Alliance). I wish Marvel, DC or even palladium would get with them to make a correct superhero RPG. I demoed City of Heroes, and it is not WoW.
5 Scism // Jan 23, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Maybe Microsoft should get some pointers from Blizzard on server stability
I’ve never played, but i’m sure they don’t have that much downtime if they have that many subscribers 
6 commander121 // Jan 23, 2008 at 9:15 pm
there customer service is excellunt and fixing bugs with the next patch is consistant
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