World of Warcraft subscribers reach 4 million

Iria · Aug 30, 2005, 05:54 AM

It seems that most often when a massively multiplayer online role-playing game makes headlines, the news is bad. Last week, Turbine Entertainment announced that Asheron's Call 2 was being taken offline. Last month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment sold off the Matrix Online to Sony Online Entertainment following lackluster sales. (SOE has since cut the number of servers supporting the game by two thirds.)

However, for one MMORPG, World of Warcraft, the news is good--very good. Today, the company's developer and publisher, VU Games-owned Blizzard Entertainment, announced that the best-selling fantasy title has reached even greater heights of popularity. According to the company, there are now four million "paying customers" who log onto the MMORPG worldwide--one million in the US and Canada alone.

But just what are "paying customers"? Blizzard defines the term as being someone who has "paid a subscription fee or purchased a pre-paid card to play World of Warcraft" or someone who has "has purchased the installation box bundled with one free month access." The company also counted "Internet Game Room players [who have] accessed the game over the last seven days" as paying customers.
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Kemal · Aug 30, 2005, 06:05 AM

flippin crazy.

youd think with all that intake, though, theyd be able to figure some way to elimante server queue's alltogether (which still happen, and on some servers, quite frequently)

Aug 30, 2005, 05:54 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	World of Warcraft subscribers reach 4 million It seems that most often when a massively multiplayer online role-playing game makes headlines, the news is bad. Last week, Turbine Entertainment announced that Asheron's Call 2 was being taken offline. Last month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment sold off the Matrix Online to Sony Online Entertainment following lackluster sales. (SOE has since cut the number of servers supporting the game by two thirds.) However, for one MMORPG, World of Warcraft, the news is good--very good. Today, the company's developer and publisher, VU Games-owned Blizzard Entertainment, announced that the best-selling fantasy title has reached even greater heights of popularity. According to the company, there are now four million "paying customers" who log onto the MMORPG worldwide--one million in the US and Canada alone. But just what are "paying customers"? Blizzard defines the term as being someone who has "paid a subscription fee or purchased a pre-paid card to play World of Warcraft" or someone who has "has purchased the installation box bundled with one free month access." The company also counted "Internet Game Room players [who have] accessed the game over the last seven days" as paying customers. __________ Read More / Source: GameSpot

Aug 30, 2005, 06:05 AM	#2
Kemal DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 166 Rep Power: 0	flippin crazy. youd think with all that intake, though, theyd be able to figure some way to elimante server queue's alltogether (which still happen, and on some servers, quite frequently) __________________ ASUS A7N8X Rev 2.0 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 1gb PC3200 DDR (512mb PC3200x2) + 256mb Radeon X800 Pro Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Windows XP SP 2