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World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

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World of Warcraft is an online role-playing experience set in the award-winning Warcraft universe. Players assume the roles of Warcraft heroes as they explore, adventure, and quest across a vast world. Being "Massively Multiplayer," World of ...

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3.5 million total WoW subscribers

Posted on Thursday, 21 July 2005 by Ryuken, source: Blizzard Entertainment
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China is crazy about World of WarCraft. The mmorpg has launched there over a month ago and the subscription list already consists of more than 1.5 million subscribers.

Developer Blizzard Entertainment states that with these extra customers they have reached a magical number of 3.5 million subscribers. There were already 2 million subscribers in North-America, South-Korea and Europe combined, the regions where the games was first released.

The Blizzard Entertainment®, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®, its subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed 1.5 million paying customers in China - just a month following the game's commercial launch on June 7, 2005. The critically acclaimed World of Warcraft has now achieved another significant milestone as the largest MMORPG in the world, with more than 3.5 million global customers.

"World of Warcraft's success in China has quickly exceeded our expectations, and seeing Chinese gamers respond so enthusiastically to the game has been extremely gratifying," said Mike Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We thank the players for embracing World of Warcraft, our partner The9 for helping to make all of this possible, and the Chinese authorities for their support of Blizzard Entertainment."

"Chinese gamers across the country have embraced World of Warcraft," said Michael Fong, Blizzard Entertainment managing director, Greater China, "and we are committed to responding with continual updates to the game, including new dungeons for players to explore, additional player-vs.-player content, ongoing live events, and much more. Blizzard and The9 also remain dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to Chinese gamers with fully localized content and local, around-the-clock customer support."

As if this wasn't enough, Blizzard also plans a release of WoW in Taiwan and other parts of Asia. Pretty stunning numbers for a mmorpg PC game.
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20 Comment(s)

Anonymous

Anonymous

wow deserved credit when it came out but now they totaly messed it up , bad support , no content, no evolving story , they are just fishing in the dark with this instance crap

i quit after them battlegrounds came out , dont expect anything big to change in wow unless you pay for it , expansions are its only saviour but the engine lacks any sort of housing/ major PVP feature so wow is done for for me
wow deserved credit when it came out but now they totaly messed it up , bad support , no content, no evolving story , they are just fishing in the dark with this instance crap i quit after them battlegrounds came out , dont expect anything big to change in wow unless you pay for it , expansions are its only saviour but the engine lacks any sort of housing/ major PVP feature so wow is done for for me
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Posted on 16:14, July 22nd 2005
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vinnycentral (old)

i have no opinion on this subject whatsoever
i have no opinion on this subject whatsoever
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Posted on 02:13, July 23rd 2005
Anonymous

Anonymous

WoW is amazing there are so many choices just for character such as facial details, races, classes and even professions, and dont even forget about all the deifferent kinds of armor and weapons you can get and customise
WoW is amazing there are so many choices just for character such as facial details, races, classes and even professions, and dont even forget about all the deifferent kinds of armor and weapons you can get and customise
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Posted on 14:35, August 31st 2005
Anonymous

Anonymous

WoW, definitely one of the best MMO's ever made. Before I bought WoW, I to looked at the screenshots with disapproval. The graphics looked very cartoonish, and the game itself wasn't very appealing to me at all. Though, when I finally tried it out, the game turned out to be incredible. The graphics are perfect for the world of WoW, and look a hell of a lot better in live action. The lighting is great, and the colors are so vibrant, as stated before. The continents are detailed beyond what I've seen in any other game. There's so much to say about WoW, but the best thing to say is play this awesome game.
WoW, definitely one of the best MMO's ever made. Before I bought WoW, I to looked at the screenshots with disapproval. The graphics looked very cartoonish, and the game itself wasn't very appealing to me at all. Though, when I finally tried it out, the game turned out to be incredible. The graphics are perfect for the world of WoW, and look a hell of a lot better in live action. The lighting is great, and the colors are so vibrant, as stated before. The continents are detailed beyond what I've seen in any other game. There's so much to say about WoW, but the best thing to say is play this awesome game.
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Posted on 12:26, November 15th 2005
Anonymous

Anonymous

wow = boring, end of discussion :)


After playing EQ for nearly 4 years, DaOC for 18 months and now playing WoW for just over a year. I can say once you have completed the content as far as instances and end game bosses, the game is lacking content unless you enjoy PvP, which it has battlegrounds for this but the wait times can be annoying. I only played Eve Online for a month or so and while I was excited for a space MMO I honestly coudln't deal witht he endless mining. I'm sure there are things to do past this but I do know that WoW will hook you and and from the 3.5 million subscribers worldwide vs the 60,000 Eve Online, It hink the numbers tell the story.

To each his own, but WoW is a very well put together MMO, that has had nearly a patch per month or 6 weeks over the past 6 months. This includes New instances (area's to adventure) changes to character spells/talents to balance classes. Battle grounds "Alterac Valley" first came out, which is a large battle map with the end goal to take the opposing forces base and take out their general. 40 vs 40 players. Then a few months later added a CTF type of pvp map and a map that requires you to hold various flags, playing defense and having an organized gruop to win.

Before you bash the game you should play it, it's not the end all of MMO's but if you think Eve Online is the best MMO out there... I'm stunned. Please tell me what exactly keeps you and you 59,999 other ppl staying there to play? I'd love to hear a good review and somthing that peaked interest in this MMO (Eve).

[quote]wow = boring, end of discussion :)[/quote] After playing EQ for nearly 4 years, DaOC for 18 months and now playing WoW for just over a year. I can say once you have completed the content as far as instances and end game bosses, the game is lacking content unless you enjoy PvP, which it has battlegrounds for this but the wait times can be annoying. I only played Eve Online for a month or so and while I was excited for a space MMO I honestly coudln't deal witht he endless mining. I'm sure there are things to do past this but I do know that WoW will hook you and and from the 3.5 million subscribers worldwide vs the 60,000 Eve Online, It hink the numbers tell the story. To each his own, but WoW is a very well put together MMO, that has had nearly a patch per month or 6 weeks over the past 6 months. This includes New instances (area's to adventure) changes to character spells/talents to balance classes. Battle grounds "Alterac Valley" first came out, which is a large battle map with the end goal to take the opposing forces base and take out their general. 40 vs 40 players. Then a few months later added a CTF type of pvp map and a map that requires you to hold various flags, playing defense and having an organized gruop to win. Before you bash the game you should play it, it's not the end all of MMO's but if you think Eve Online is the best MMO out there... I'm stunned. Please tell me what exactly keeps you and you 59,999 other ppl staying there to play? I'd love to hear a good review and somthing that peaked interest in this MMO (Eve).
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Posted on 06:17, December 11th 2005

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