WoW grows to over 8 million subscribers
While heavily debated and scrutinized, Second Life still managed impressive number growth in 2006, but let’s not forget the MMORPG they have their sights on: World of Warcraft, or to be acryonmic, simply WoW. And wow for WoW is right, they grew to over 8 million subscribers in a little over two years (original launch date: November 2004). See the breakdown from the official Blizzard press release:
World of Warcraft has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North America, more than 1.5 million players in Europe, and more than 3.5 million players in China.
This coming Tuesday, January 16, will bring WoW’s first expansion pack: The Burning Crusade which has its own Flash mini-site. Among the VTOR authors and readers I’m curious how many are WoW players? We bought the game and our middle son (the biggest gamer in our family) played it for awhile, but we haven’t had a subscription in many months. I might get the expansion, renew and see what’s happening.
Comparatively as of this morning’s login, Second Life shows their total resident number as 2,551,834.
January 13th, 2007 • 
TD Goodliffe • 
pingback | January 15, 2007 at 22:39 | individual pingback-link
[…] Burning Crusade, the first expansion for World of Warcraft, depending on when you read this is probably now in stores everywhere. I wonder how many will be taking another vacation day for some serious MMORPG action? Any readers planning on getting the Burning Crusade ASAP? […]
pingback | January 26, 2007 at 12:44 | individual pingback-link
[…] of Warcraft is an entertaining MMORPG and I can see why so many people play (over 8 million and counting). As mentioned before, it’s not as time consuming to level up as it is with […]