World of Warcraft Hits 4 Million

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Blizzard's extremely popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft, has hit over 4 million subscribed players worldwide, with over 1 million of those being in America alone! These figures make it the largest MMORPG in the world ever, eclipsing even the mighty Lineage which at it's height had 3 million subscribed players.

The figures also include the recently limited half-million players in China who are restricted to 3 hour blocks of MMO games.

Blizzard President, Mike Morhaime had this to say, ""With the continued support of our retail partners, World of Warcraft has reached more than one million paying customers in North America well before its one-year anniversary in November. We would like to express our appreciation to both the players and our retail and license partners for helping us to make World of Warcraft one of the most popular online games in the world."

Blizzard plans to release the game in more territories such as Taiwan.

News source: gamesindustry.biz

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(1 reply) #1 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#1.1 Chad on 01 Sep 2005 - 14:47

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EQ2 is an MMO, however, and they don't have nearly the problems that plague WoW. I'm not arguing semantics, however, but merely pointing out that GW can fix things for free, and EQ can fix things for money, but WoW never fixes anything regardless of how many millions they make. And why should they? Their customer base is growing rapidly despite the fact that they rarely do anything to improve the game.

EQ2 doesn't have any where near 4 million subscribers either. I think Blizzard is doing a tremendous job working in territory without any prior experience in this area, and with no online game ever having this many players.

(1 reply) #2 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#2.1 Chad on 01 Sep 2005 - 14:48

And it's illegal to play the game on any server but Blizzard's.

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