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Six million WoW subscribers and counting

Posted on Wednesday, 1 March 2006 by Ryuken, source: Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment hasn't lost the 'Blizz' yet it seems. Now more than six million gamers are subscribing to their mmorpg World of WarCraft.

It might surprise you but that shouldn't be the end even. In this press release Blizzard announces a Spanish version of the game.

The Spanish version will represent the fourth language available to players in Europe, making the game accessible to an even wider audience here. World of Warcraft's European customer base is currently at more than 1 million players, with the worldwide total now at more than 6 million players.

The Spanish version of the game will be released and hosted in Europe and supported by a dedicated Spanish-speaking team based at the Blizzard Europe offices. This will include 24/7 in-game support, offline customer support, a dedicated community team and an official World of Warcraft website in Spanish. As with the existing German and French versions, the game will be localised by the Blizzard in-house localisation team.

In Europe, World of Warcraft is operated by a dedicated local team of more than 450 Blizzard employees representing 22 different nationalities.

Quite a massive undertaking but quite a massive cash cow also. Let's hope they treat their customers with some more extra goodies before the first expansion (Burning Crusade) arrives.

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13 Comment(s)

Imposter

Wow! They're making some serious moola with all them subscribers. :o

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Posted on 21:06, March 01st 2006

Anonymous

More brainwashed people. Blizzard gives a shit about them as long as they are addicted tho

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Posted on 21:16, March 01st 2006

Anonymous

Do you actually have to pay for the expansion ? If you do that is one serious rip off. Isn't £10 a month enough for these people.

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Posted on 22:01, March 01st 2006

Imposter

Do you actually have to pay for the expansion ? If you do that is one serious rip off. Isn't £10 a month enough for these people.

Most definetely. Just as you do with other MMO's, good thing I don't play or like MMO's. :D

[quote]Do you actually have to pay for the expansion ? If you do that is one serious rip off. Isn't £10 a month enough for these people.[/quote] Most definetely. Just as you do with other MMO's, good thing I don't play or like MMO's. :D

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Posted on 22:32, March 01st 2006

Anonymous

I'm no fan of Blizz, but they're are doing great things for the MMO industry. To bad they're getting all the credi thoughl - in my opinion WoW one of the least innovative MMOs. Its just a mix of ideas created by other MMO developers and then streamlined. Its well put together though.

- Fish

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Posted on 01:12, March 02nd 2006

Anonymous

Horrible typing above, so here's one which can actually be read:

I'm no fan of Blizz, but they're are doing great things for the MMO industry. Too bad they're getting all the credit though - in my opinion WoW is one of the least innovative MMOs. Its just a mix of ideas created by other MMO-developers and then streamlined. Its well put together though.

- Fish

Horrible typing above, so here's one which can actually be read: I'm no fan of Blizz, but they're are doing great things for the MMO industry. Too bad they're getting all the credit though - in my opinion WoW is one of the least innovative MMOs. Its just a mix of ideas created by other MMO-developers and then streamlined. Its well put together though. - Fish

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Posted on 01:16, March 02nd 2006

Zembla (old)

Imposter, not all MMO's make you pay for expansions. In EVE online f.ex. new content is frequently released, and the subscriber fee doesn't go up for that.

Personally I don't like WoW. Then again, I was never really much of a warcraft fan :)

Imposter, not all MMO's make you pay for expansions. In EVE online f.ex. new content is frequently released, and the subscriber fee doesn't go up for that. Personally I don't like WoW. Then again, I was never really much of a warcraft fan :)

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Posted on 03:50, March 02nd 2006

Imposter

Imposter, not all MMO's make you pay for expansions.

I know that, but paying for expansions is the norm for most, depending on the amount of content and extras I suppose, just hope the devs are in a giving mood. :D

[quote]Imposter, not all MMO's make you pay for expansions.[/quote] I know that, but paying for expansions is the norm for most, depending on the amount of content and extras I suppose, just hope the devs are in a giving mood. :D

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Posted on 14:48, March 02nd 2006