Originally posted by mindspat

Fuzzy math for the win!

"player", not "subscriber".  Note a complete abstention of directly tieing in numbers to subscribers.

But who's kidding, good job Blizzard!

This equates to a modest estimate of 1.2billion US Dollars a year in subscription revenue.  Doesn't anyone think there would be more attention on a single product that alledgedly brings in more then 15% of the projected global revenue from video games? 

When a single product generates this type of revenue there's legistlature written due to it.  Has anyone seen anything in the US that relates to or names World of Warcraft?

p.s. May 2005 Nancy McIntre (sp) from Lucas Arts announced in front of a packed audience that Star Wars Galaxies has sold over a million copies!

Originally posted by Vengeful

In WoW tanking boiled down to

1) Pull
2) Taunt
3) Sunder Armor
4) Sunder Armor
5) Sunder Armor
6) Sunder Armor
7) Sunder Armor
8) Repeat Heroic Strike

Vanguard is much more difficult to master than Warcraft (though I'm not blind enough to say Vanguard is the most difficult). But I will say that if you think WoW is as difficult or more so than Vanguard.......I'm not sure we can continue this conversation.

I agree with most people in this thread. WoW is not a game for Veteran MMO players. It's a game for people with families and people with jobs. People who can log on for an hour and have some fun with friends online.

It's not as Hardcore as these super challenging games like Vanguard and AoC, which require a lot more intelligence to play, whose playerbase consists of mostly of really good players who are all friendly with eachother and form a really solid community. The same communities that feel like they need to talk about, and compare their game to WoW in their forums, so that they can feel much more superior to the Kiddie playerbase WoW has. The funny things is that in the WoW forums I've never seen anyone comparing WoW to any other game (official forums).

I also agree that WoW has the most 12 year olds of any MMO, and most 20 year olds, and most  31 year olds and most 40+ year olds... and so on. But unfortunatly, due to human nature, these 12-18 year olds seem to be louder than the general playerbase, and as such, attract attention/comments from players such as themselfs.

But anyway, lets hope that a publisher doesn't bring any more games into the MMO market which are  as polished, easy to pick up, easy to play, rewarding for playing short amounts of time, cartony graphics which allow 7+ Million players to play without the need for a supercomputer, good storyline, good short and fun combat.

Lets hope instead for more games with super realistic graphics, with a really deep and immersive story and gameplay. Games where it will take days to travel accross continents, and where death is permanent. Games whose playerbase will consist of true MMO players, who can chat all day long about how their game is so much better than any other on the market.

Originally posted by ProudPartner
are you one of those anti-american people.