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World of Warcraft reaches 11.5 million subscribers

by Alexander Sliwinski on Dec 23rd 2008 1:00PM

Blizzard Entertainment announced today that World of Warcraft has reached 11.5 million subscribers, meaning Azeroth has surpassed the great state of Ohio's population. Clearly people were clamoring to see the Lich King's wrath, as the game's second expansion sold 2.8 million copies in 24 hours, and went on to sell over 4 million copies in its first month.

Blizzard also stated it's currently hiring more staff to keep pace with the game. With all the layoffs going around the industry, hopefully some folks can find a relatively stable job over at Blizzard's compound -- we hear it's made of gold and diamonds.

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Reader Comments (31)

That's almost twice the population of Scotland :O Where apparently all Dwarves come from!

At 12 million subscribers they will release the hypnotize screen that converts them all into an army, an army of nerds that will run rampant over the earth leaving destruction and coheed and cambria CD's in their wake.

Just what I heard.

WoW fan here.

If I suddenly find out I've been a member of an undercover Coheed and Cambria cult this entire time, I'm going for the Kool-Aid.

No, or at least wait until we stop them, we're gonna need someone on the inside.

After moving here from living in Germany the past 3 years, I can easily say that Ohio is not a that great of a state at all.

You're just not drinking enough!

Well seeing as how I don't drink alcohol at all... you're probably right. -_-

Having known a fair few immigrants, the Europe to America move is a pretty big culture shock I've heard. In as much as Europe has culture, and America has people who shout a lot.

i could have saved you a lot of pain and anguish if you'd asked
yeah, ohio is the suck

They can add another one to that list, as I'm jumping back in after I pick up Lich King right after Christmas.

uh, great state of ohio?

Maybe we can recruit some of the WoW players to the Cleveland Browns! Hell they could probably catch a ball better than Braylon Edwards...CRITICAL CATCH

You can't hog all the WoW subscribers. There are two crappy football teams in this state.

That's like 3 times the population of Puerto Rico O_O.

I think that makes WoW the biggest sausage party ever.

I don't know what the subscription cost is...so, what does that translate into for monthly dolars?

$172.5 million a month.

If every single subscriber paid $15 a month, $172.5M/mo would be correct, however a lot of players don't, such as in China, where they have a hour-based system and they pay MUCH less than people in North America or Europe

Well, let's just use a completly random number then and assume that they make at least 100 million a month. That's a crazy amount of money to make off of one game each year. And it's been around since what, 2005, or something.

I've heard that WoW is financed with Nazi gold.

I'd just like to point out that after visiting Dayton a few times, Justin's song is waaaaaaaaaaaay to exciting. The only good thing about Dayton is you can always laugh at Youngstown for being even more bland and boring.

Youngstown is more dangerous than Dayton. All you need to do to graduate from Youngstown State is not get shot in a four year period.

That's 11.5 million people who are less productive members of our society because of the game.

At least they're not destructive members of society!

whats the point of this game again?

Oh that's simple... Alienate yourselves from friends and family, loose sleep, jepordize your job and love life all while paying a fee monthly, with no end in sight..

Exciting!

Or you could play it like a normal person...

"Or you could play it like a normal person..."

-while paying a fee monthly, with no end in sight..

Sorry... doesn't sound like a game, sounds like a habit.

Aaaahhhhh the end of the world is almost here.

I wonder how many are Multi-Boxers?

World of Warcraft deserves to have such an incredible subscription base of
dedicated and loyal fans. With over 11 million World of Warcraft subscriptions,
WoW is now the largest massive multiplayer game from North America. Personally I
am not sure if World of Warcraft is the largest massive multiplayer game in the
world, I have heard there are many extremely successful massive multiplayer
games from Asia, a region intertwined with MMO gaming. After taking over the
market from the ever addicting MMO Everquest or "Evercrack", World of
Warcraft has become the leader in the industry, the one to look up to. If you
have not played World of Warcraft get your WoW
Account today and get in the game with the rest of the us! Kudos to Blizzard
Entertainment and there insights into what has become a multi million dollar
industry!

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