World of Warcraft has well over 6 million paying subscribers all over the globe and it still reaches the number 1 spot in US PC-sales from time to time. Unstoppable one would say, but some other online games aren't doing bad at all (like the Guild Wars series with over two million copies sold by now). Still, WoW won't get much competition from the really big publisher houses anytime soon it seems.

THQ, on the rise on the PC-platform with very decent games like Dawn of War and Full Spectrum Warrior and pretty much a big company too, also won't attempt to break Blizzard's market leader status.

Comments from THQ president/CEO Brian Farrell were picked up by GameSpot. Farrell explains why his firm, as many others, isn't even trying to change things:


The game keeps on selling and selling though, I'll guess they'll need to wait quite some time before the game runs out of steam (and even then Blizzard has still the Burning Crusade expansion coming up, which might very well improve sales even more).

It's a pity that WoW doesn't get worthy competition from a real mmorpg, supported by one of the major publishers. Two of them, MicroSoft and EA, already chickened out several months before the release of WoW, by cancelling their high-profile mmorpg's Mythica and Ultima X. If there aren't much other titles in the same vein around, it doesn't surprise me at all that WoW keeps on breaking records everywhere.

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