9 Million smoking the Warcraft pipe

While I'm tempted to say "Ride WOW snake" the Drug references in Videogames start to piss me off.

Really try the game for 10 days,I only play 1 hour at day and really is better than wasting that same hour in gamespot forums.Really is one of the best games I have played so far.

I dont think they are. if you look at it, they dont count canceled accounts, trial accounts or their own probably.

That means 9 million active paying accounts. Now how many of those are located in the U.S.?

The growth is probably coming from China/Europe.

And yes im still playing, but with my lady moving in that leaves less time for wow :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsrudbNv3E&mode=related&search=

I did the same calculation. I wonder what other companies boast $1.6 billion in revenue from one product.

I guess windows comes to mind, if you consider it one product.

actually its not 15$ per account a month, they have lots of players in asia where the billing system is totally different (ie: free dl for the game, you pay for hours and not for months, etc) so i dont think the revenue is THAT big.

Your calculation is flawed. Bliz's price scheme in Asia is hourly and much cheaper then the US 15$ a month. I would like to see how many North American accounts there are. I have a feeling that the growth is coming from the Asian market.

I for one am glad I got away from wow. It is a highly addictive game that I have seen destroy lives.

Right, because there's no-one who's addicted to Halo, Counter-Strike, or any other computer game, right?

WoW is just another game. Some people get hooked on it, and play it whenever possible, others just play it now and again for fun.

Lumping the entire WoW player population into a single Lifestyle stereotype is ridiculous.

Oh wait, this is an Internet forum. Bring on the wild generalisations and negativity!

You refuse to EVER play a game because of overtly crude and exaggerated parody of some of the people who play the game? That's pretty silly. The actual gameplay of WoW isn't even very accurately portrayed, as should be clear from the fact that the whole plot revolves around bringing down a single uber-powerful high-level griefer that even the game developers are powerless to kill/ban/suspend.

Also, there aren't 9 million WoW addicts. Not even close. A lot of people who play WoW do so compulsively, sure, some to the extent where it starts to take over their life and they could be fairly called "junkies," but by no means is that the case for every player or even most players. Also, as it's been pointed out, this 9 million figure may or may not include trial accounts, canceled subscriptions, people who don't play very often (when I had a WoW subscription, there were spans where I hardly played at all) and you have to remember that 9 million accounts doesn't necessarily mean 9 million PEOPLE. A lot of the really hardcore players have multiple accounts. On the flipside, some people probably share accounts (some families, many gold farmers) but those people almost certainly aren't addicts.

I really don't see the point in such cavalier negative stereotyping.

I would but no offense it bores me.Nightfall was cool but the original and Factions ZZZzzzzzz.Whats wrong with Guild wars spells?,my Elementalist(Nuker) seemed like it attacked with fireworks instead of fire,not to mention that the amount of spells you can use are limited.

IMO Neverwinter nights was as cool as WOW.

i call it natural selection. we're overpopulated anyway

I played wow for about 5-6 months, got a 70 and then decided I'd had enough and it was just going to be a downhill grind from then on. Just quit up like that. That was a month ago, and I haven't really felt the urge to install it again. Just gotta have a little willpower.

That doesn't even make sense.