WoW surpasses 10 million subscribers, now half the size of Australia

Dude, I love you. LOL

Yes.

I'll admit - I'm surprised at Blizzard's method of counting subscribers. Usually companies will pull any strings they can to inflate whatever numbers compliment them best. If it's true that Blizzard isn't counting unsubscribed players then kudos - 10 million is quite impressive.

lololololol

You're missing a nasty addiction which almost made me fail my first year of university.

Its a good game though...

...ahhh! *Must...not...re..subscribe....*

You are missing out on the Happy meal of MMOs. All flash, no substance. Whats great about the 10 million number is that less than half of those accounts are active.

@JerJerBinks:

You sound like a subscriber to one of those other, inferior MMOs.

Unless you're interested in following rules, meeting schedules and being bossed around and bitched at (i.e. raiding), all there is at the end of WoW is PvP. I don't enjoy PvP whatsoever (I much prefer cooperative multiplayer) so WoW to me is a game to quit once you reach level 70.

@JerJerBinks: Didn't really bother reading the news article (or the press release) before you started typing, did you? They're active accounts.

@Rayonic
Nope, I dont do MMOs anymore. My first was EQ, my last was WoW. Its just more of the same in every generation.

@Cabcru
I didnt say that they werent paying customers, just that the accounts were inactive. As in, they are paid up but nobody plays them. I actually know 5 people who are in this situation because they paid for 6 months or a year, but no longer play. It happens.

They could build an army of robots, but then link the command of the robots to player character commands, then build a new map that looks exactly like North Korea...

Well, to the investors, 1 person or 3, if they're paying the worth of 3 people then all is good to them.

Your absolutely right.

No, YOU'RE absolutely right. ;P

Well someone must be absolutely right.

Valid point, but on the other hand, I know people (spouses, roommates, etc) who share a single account.

Any way you slice it, it is a ton of people.

I think its been done already I think the games called World of Warcraft

@Junior

Ouch, I just heard your reputation crash through the floor. =[

Living in Perth, that is pretty accurate, there would be probably about 3 million total in the highlighted area, most of them in the south west corner. Nitpicking is fun - point of the picture is understood :)

But, hey if Blizzard wants to stage a coup; I'm all for it. At least then we might get some decent technology infrastructure over here.

also; lol, tasmania

Sethaan: Yeah, totally, when I was visiting Australia last January, when we told people we were going to see Tasmania, there were way more Australians than we expected who had never been there.

I remember watching TV when the iPhone was announced. They were all saying, US gets it in June, and....we get it at some point, God only knows when...

I love my iPhone. And I love my 10 mbps internet (though I would always love more). Sorry, citizens of Perth!

Err... because World of Warcraft is an MMO and XBL is a service that provides a wide variety of games to people?

I mean seriously, how do you answer that question? It's ridiculed basically for the same reason sales numbers are. Typically they're skewed or fail to include what all they do and do not include in their definition of "sales" "subscribers" "subscriptions" and so forth.

I could easily say "Wii sold 5 million units in Japan, but the 360 has moved 10 million units."

That statement could be made totally true if by "moved" I simply meant "Built and placed in storage until they could be shipped to stores + the number already sold" and I would not be lying. (By the way, I obviously made that number up.)

The fact is, either Blizzard is boasting over false numbers or even if they are true, 95% of us here are sick of hearing about World of Warcraft from everywhere else. Just like the PS3 fanboys here are tired of "Delaystation" and the 360 fanboys are sick of "M$" and the Wii fanboys are sick of "OMG, bad graphics" comments.

To put that huge rant in a nutshell: We don't care and we're kind of tired of hearing about it.

And honestly, who cares how many people play a game? We don't get a prize for it... Blizzard doesn't give you anything for it... it usually just means that you now officially know how many people get on your nerves and crowd the areas when you log into the game. Yippie!