gratz blizzard!

they got luck, and they did a great job. thats actually all you can say about it

Originally posted by Shijuki

Still going strong, grats blizzard. I still see people talking about the amount of money blizzard makes, well it's actually Vivendi themselves since they own the company.

True, but a couple more years of this, and Vivendi will be the tail while Blizzard is the dog!

Yeah, yeah, I know Vivendi is huge...  Anybody know what percentage of their sales now comes from Blizzard?  Too lazy to dig through their financials myself.

Originally posted by AlienShirt

While it is an impressive feat this doesn't mean that WoW currently has 11 million subscribers.

 

And don't forget out of the 11 million, 1 million are Gold Farmers. 

Good to see the uneducated people still pull out useless numbers out of their bloody arse.

Nice try, now weap at blizzard's succes, you lifeless vessels of what we call, blizzard haters.

It's like one of those jokes, where the loser keeps yapping about how close he was to winning the race, well the fact remains, the winner won, and the loser, being you, lost.

And the best part being, blizzard is the only company actually giving out what can be called accurate numbers, the rest relies on imaginary things like, "registered users, characters made, boxes sold" but at the end of the day, only blizzard got the balls to show their cards, the rest all roll on "pass/fold/out".

Gratz Blizzard, now make some more games and spent those money on those games to make more than just 1 or 2 every decade. But obviously keep the polishment and quality. 

And the best part being, blizzard is the only company actually giving out what can be called accurate numbers, the rest relies on imaginary things like, "registered users, characters made, boxes sold" but at the end of the day, only blizzard got the balls to show their cards, the rest all roll on "pass/fold/out".

If they gad 11 millions, they would also give out the numbers.

any way, from someone that followed this games (not only wow but mmorpgs) since their debut  I would have never guessed that in less than 10 years 1 mmorpg would have more players than many countries have in population.

No matter if you like wow or not, it is 1 hell of an impressive feat for an industry that even in 2004 would claim that 500 000 subs was a great base for a mmorpg.  It also shows that when you actually understand what your costumers want, and deliver it well, you can cash in.

ps: and yes, they know what  THEIR customers want, thats why they have 11 millions.

WOW still sucks. On a positive note, the stock rebounded after lunch and ended the day up a bit.
 

Whoopie Doo.... 1 mil more people that have no real idea of what a real MMO is.........still not buying it or play follow the leader, all BS aside, most of those active subscribers are more than likely gold farmers and people that pay for 36 accounts at a time and bot them all ..... really whats there to be said about this not much...

Originally posted by firefly2003

Whoopie Doo.... 1 mil more people that have no real idea of what a real MMO is.........still not buying it or play follow the leader, all BS aside, most of those active subscribers are more than likely gold farmers and people that pay for 36 accounts at a time and bot them all ..... really whats there to be said about this not much...

There is nothing wrong with World of Warcraft. People act like its the easist MMO with no depth but have you ever actually seen an endgame raid in WoW? I may not play it but it is a good game no matter how you slice it.

Originally posted by firefly2003

Whoopie Doo.... 1 mil more people that have no real idea of what a real MMO is.........still not buying it or play follow the leader, all BS aside, most of those active subscribers are more than likely gold farmers and people that pay for 36 accounts at a time and bot them all ..... really whats there to be said about this not much...

Your narrow mindedness and igorance is truly something to behold. This very kind of self-righteous attitude by players such as yourself who feel the need to dictate to everyone the type of game that they should be playing is sickening.

Quite frankly you and the rest of your elitist friends can fester in some dying game barely sustaining a playerbase of 100k lamenting the state of the MMO industry. I'll stay with the goldsellers, multiboxers and the rest of the 11 'deluded' people who are actually enjoying themselves.

FOR SHAME!

Did they post a break down by Continent? I would be intrested to see the geographical break down for nothing more than just intrest

wow .... grats blizzard, this is definetly a huge feat.

Where do they find all these people lol. Gratz Blizz! Can't wait for WotLK. Pre-order has been placed a while ago now

For some reason when I played and was on one of the 3 most populated servers at practically all hrs it didn't seem like a population of 11mil divided onto all these servers really added up. The population seemed quite empty to be honest. Even in places such as main towns such as SW. I remember EQ at around PoP expansion seemed to have more players on there server and EQs sub numbers are suppose to be around 400-500k around that time.

Originally posted by banthis

  btw grats to Blizz..I still hate your game..please stop killing Diablo 3.

I believe that last line was really cute and fluffy :D 

Grats to blizz that are holding the mmo flag high in grim times.  11 Million Subscribers x12£=sweet loving

horaay for blizzard now time for punch and pie while i wait for the next expansion after WOTLK

Originally posted by Qmire

Originally posted by AlienShirt

While it is an impressive feat this doesn't mean that WoW currently has 11 million subscribers.

 

And don't forget out of the 11 million, 1 million are Gold Farmers. 

 

Good to see the uneducated people still pull out useless numbers out of their bloody arse.

 

Nice try, now weap at blizzard's succes, you lifeless vessels of what we call, blizzard haters.

 

It's like one of those jokes, where the loser keeps yapping about how close he was to winning the race, well the fact remains, the winner won, and the loser, being you, lost.

 

And the best part being, blizzard is the only company actually giving out what can be called accurate numbers, the rest relies on imaginary things like, "registered users, characters made, boxes sold" but at the end of the day, only blizzard got the balls to show their cards, the rest all roll on "pass/fold/out".

 

Gratz Blizzard, now make some more games and spent those money on those games to make more than just 1 or 2 every decade. But obviously keep the polishment and quality. 

Good to see uneducated people still can't figure out that a   following a comment normally indicates the author implied some sort of humor or joke with the comment.

Here bag, you forgot your douche...

Grats Blizzard

Originally posted by chrono73

For some reason when I played and was on one of the 3 most populated servers at practically all hrs it didn't seem like a population of 11mil divided onto all these servers really added up. The population seemed quite empty to be honest. Even in places such as main towns such as SW. I remember EQ at around PoP expansion seemed to have more players on there server and EQs sub numbers are suppose to be around 400-500k around that time.

Havin' a hard time swallowin' these massive numbers?  Here ya go....a site that tells the population on EVERY single server.  This is ONE of the two servers I play on:

Lothar -  Population 13,533

http://www.wowjutsu.com/us/lothar/

WoWJutsu keeps tabs on guild progression, active players, guild rankings, Alliance:Horde pop ratios, etc.  Have a look.  It's easy to see how many people ARE playing.

Oh, and just an FYI, Blizzard has so MANY servers, that I couldn't COUNT them all.  I tried.  I about went blind.  Look for yourself, then multiply about 10k or more players per that many realms.  I think you'll see the numbers very rapidly add up.

Realm Status page:

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/

Whether people who post on MMORPG.com LIKE the game or not....whether some of the elitists think it's a GOOD game or not  (whoever the hell defines what good is for people other than themSELVES, I don't know)....there is ONE thing that cannot be argued, and that is the MASSIVE number of players, and the success of Blizzard.

Fanbois are so frigging happy and proud with such figures, they feel strong in masses like sheep, it helps persuade them they made the good choice and go in the right direction, no matter if WoW is still crap and Bliztard the greediest game company ever (along with SOE).

Yeah yeah I know how could 11 millions subscribers be wrong... And how Britney Spears selling so many records could make shitty music? Whatever fanbois, keep rubbing yourself on sub figures

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

Fanbois are so frigging happy and proud with such figures, they feel strong in masses like sheep, it helps persuade them they made the good choice and go in the right direction, no matter if WoW is still crap and Bliztard the greediest game company ever (along with SOE).

 

Yeah yeah I know how could 11 millions subscribers be wrong... And how Britney Spears selling so many records could make shitty music? Whatever fanbois, keep rubbing yourself on sub figures

yup, 11 million people are completely wrong.

And you know all those awards that World of Warcraft has received? Psh, they have been given by people who were also completely wrong.

And you know that 92% average review for WoW and 91% review on average for The Burning Crusade? (source:Gamerankings.com)

Well they are all wrong too!

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

Yeah yeah I know how could 11 millions subscribers be wrong... And how Britney Spears selling so many records could make shitty music? Whatever fanbois, keep rubbing yourself on sub figures

Yeah, srsly, like with McDonalds, big sales means it's crap! Like Britney and Spice Girls, not to mention The Beatles, Sinatra, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and all those other sucky artists who sold even more than Britney.

Hm, wait...

Fanboi, meet hater. Both, please shake those rubbing hands and chill. ;-)