"Blizzard Entertainment, owners of World of Warcraft, announced today that the game now has more than 10 million paying subscribers around the world. Online gameplay costs an average of $15 USD per month. Those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The Warcraft brand was first introduced in 1994 and World of Warcraft was launched in 2001."
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Blizzard Entertainment announced today that it has hit a new subscription milestone for World of Warcraft . The extremely popular MMORPG is still climbing in membership, and subscriptions have recently passed the 10 million user mark worldwide. “It’s very gratifying to see gamers around the world continuing to show such enthusiasm and support for World of Warcraft ,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We’re always pleased to welcome new players to the game, and we’re looking forward to sharing the next major content update with the entire community in the months ahead.”
World of Warcraft now hosts more than 2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North America, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia. Since it debuted in November of 2004, World of Warcraft has become the world's most popular MMORPG, and was the best selling PC game of 2005 and 2006, only being overtaken by its own expansion pack, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade , in 2007. With development underway for the game's latest expansion, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King , it is likely that Blizzard will only be looking up for some time to come.
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/01/23/1317202http://www.comicbookbin.com/gamenews012208.html--
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