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WoW has 10 million minions
Velt \| 11:23 PM on 01.22.2008	10 comments

In another blow to the worlds economy and productivity, Blizzard MMORPG has 10 million active users now. Of course WoW in China is big. And plans are in motion to launch the game in Russia (cold = gaming ??)

"Blizzard noted that the term subscriber encompasses those who have paid a subscription fee, have an active prepaid WOW card, are within their first free month of game access after purchasing the game, or have logged into the game from an Internet cafe within the last 30 days. The tally does not include expired or canceled subscriptions, or those playing under free promotional accounts."

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10 comments | showing # 1 to 10

WmV337

Epic, more gold farmers.

Skribble

If the average WoW player pays $30 a month for that game....

$300 Million a month

Blizzard must be having baths of money

Fleet3000

baths? you means fountains

[img]insert awesome money fountain picture here[/img]

Skribble

ArrestedDeveloper

I know I got off the drug over a year ago but isn't wow more like $12-$15 a month?

SourGr8pes

By minions, you must mean anonymous, angry fuckheads that type like chimps?

DISCLAIMER FOR INFLAMMATORY COMMENT: I played WoW for two years, skanks!

Knives

I've never played it, although I was very tempted when Illidian appeared on a trailer.

AfroJoel

I play WoW.

Eschatos

So in about a third of a year, they become richer than Bill Gates. They should just give all their money to the CEO for a few minutes, to become richest person evaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

Hitogoroshi

I don't know where you pulled $30 a month from Scrible but indeed they are raking in the money.

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about me

Iam a gammer from the harsh uruguayan jungle (we dont even have a jungle down here, too cold, go and do some wikipedia of Uruguay). I used to do a podcast in spanish about videogames at Radio LevelUp but I dont do it anymore... anyway those guys are there still making it so you can give it a try if you understand spanish
And i can say "�aca �aca �aca" and i know how to pronoaunce it well since im a spanish speaker, so Im a superior race.
A couple of idiots may find funny that I dont have good english grammar, but again, they are probably idiots since they only speak/write one language...

Most of my time in the internet is because of games. I love videogames so much that i sleep with my girlfriend and my ds, at the same time... i call that a "threesome" and my humor doesnt get anything better than that.
Mostly im a PC gamer, i was going to buy a 360 but faulty crappy hardware told me not to since if it goes RRoD here I would have lost my money, and as a man Im entitled to the sweat of my brow. I want to fuck the Wii and I believe the PS3 is going to be the first console in space.

In the "real" life (come on, internet now is part of our lives anyway...), I study medicine (takes a lot of time and I cant spend enough of my time playing videogames). Is not what you would call a marriage made in heaven, if I wanted to game more I should have sutdy something related to pc�s, but I grown surrounded by computers and stuff so I chose the bio stuff instead. Anyway, little time to play video games if you dont want my biographical shit.

And the main reasson I play games for the story behind them. I love well written stories like Half Life series, of course Portal (kind of a Valve fan). Other great games include World Of Warcraft (not currently playing, actually I was never hardcore, but I enjoyed the experience a lot), and of course the classics like System Shock 2. Other great titles had stuck with me over the years, classics adventure games like Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and Grim Fandango.

So, best game experiences:
Half Life 2 (and the original Half Life of course).
System Shock 2
Grim Fandango
Indiana Jones and the Fate Of Atlantis
Monkey Island

Links:
My Picasa Web Album.
My videogame blog in spanish