World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Users

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Wowzer writes "Blizzard today announced that their MMORPG World of Warcraft is now played by more than 9 million gamers around the world. From the article: 'That's half a million more than the number of monthly players WoW had back in March five months ago. — It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden.' Also revealed this week was that DC Comics are creating World of Warcraft Comic Books based on the MMORPG, with the first issue appearing on November 14th. The ongoing monthly series will be written by industry veteran Walter Simonson (Thor, Orion) and feature art by Ludo Lullabi and inker Sandra Hope."

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Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

by feepness ( 543479 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:06PM (#19973673)

...but what did it hit them with.

Damn (Score:3, Funny)

by fliptw ( 560225 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:07PM (#19973693) Journal

WOW is fast to hit that many people. I hope the injuries aren't serious.

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

by shoptroll ( 544006 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:09PM (#19973721)

Knowing blizzard:

Either a nerf bat or a ban hammer.

But like in any economy... (Score:4, Funny)

by vigmeister ( 1112659 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:14PM (#19973801)

80% of them are farming gold for the upper 20% :) Gold farmers shouldn't count...

Cheers!

Re:Class warfare? (Score:5, Funny)

by Yahweh Doesn't Exist ( 906833 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:25PM (#19973959)

Since it's WORLD of warcraft, not DEVELOPED COUNTRY of warcraft, it should really be more of a 95/5 split

ONE OF US (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:32PM (#19974075)

ONE OF US ONE OF US

Comic endeavor (Score:5, Funny)

by Rob T Firefly ( 844560 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:35PM (#19974107) Homepage Journal

Each issue of the WoW comic's gripping storyline will be interrupted by the characters running around shouting misspelled racist and homophobic epithets at the reader for two solid pages.

Yet Somehow... (Score:5, Funny)

by SQLz ( 564901 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @03:59PM (#19974473) Homepage Journal

There are only 9 million players but 11 million night elf hunters. Go figure.

What is World of Warcraft (Score:3, Funny)

by zussal ( 1058116 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @04:16PM (#19974735)

Am I out of touch, what is this World of Warcraft thing?

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

by Himring ( 646324 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @04:31PM (#19974931) Homepage Journal

WoW just follows the rules of mmogs. These rules are:

You always try out-level, and never play with, your friends (no matter what the voiced intentions)

As soon as you finish that quest for that really cool item, a new one comes making it totally worthless

In pvp, if you're in an area where there's a remote possibility you'll get ganked, you will be

In pvp, if you're in an area where there's no way you'll get ganked, you will be

The smallest possible race will always be rolled as a tank, and be better at it than the biggest possible race

1 out of 3, no 2 out of 3 ... no, 3 out of 3 quests will, at some point, make no sense

You will always respec wrong

You will hate the game

You will not stop playing the game

You will wonder why you cannot stop playing the game

You will cancel your account

You will re-open your account

You will cancel your account

[ad infinitum]

The maker will always nerf your class

The maker will always buff your friend's class

You will sell your account for $x amount of money and feel you actually are a good business man (when, truth is, you invested 100x that much)

You will create a new account and character

You will tell yourself that it isn't so bad this time because you're so good at it

You will cancel your account

You will play another mmog and tell yourself and your friends how much better/different it is than the last

You will create a character on a role-playing server and never role-play (nor will anyone else; people who do rarely role-play are made fun of)

K, I'm done, someone take over....

yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)

by to_kallon ( 778547 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @04:55PM (#19975299)

It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden. i pasted this to a friend who pointed out that while the taxes are much lower the death rate is significantly higher...

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

by I. C. Wiener ( 1108307 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @05:09PM (#19975485)

The Department of Education reports 9M new drop-outs.

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

by The One and Only ( 691315 ) * writes: <[ten.hclewlihp] [ta] [lihp]> on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @05:10PM (#19975499) Homepage

Heroin is less time-consuming.

Åh nej! (Score:5, Funny)

by Sobieski ( 1032500 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @06:13PM (#19976253)

De är ikapp oss! Börja kopulera för guds skull!

Re:Yes... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @06:22PM (#19976367)

GOTO 10 ?

Re:Yes... (Score:3, Funny)

by OzoneLad ( 899155 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @08:01PM (#19977549)

Heroin is less time-consuming.
Depends on how much grinding you need to do to buy that next hit.

Re:Yes... (Score:3, Funny)

by sqrt(2) ( 786011 ) writes: on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @09:10PM (#19978183) Journal

Luckily, I dodge that bullet by not <i>having</i> a relationship in the first place.

Woo hoo! (Score:3, Funny)

by geminidomino ( 614729 ) * writes: on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:32AM (#19980085) Journal

And the remaining 5.991 Billion people *still* don't give a fuck.

Ahh, perspective...

Re:MMORPG popularity (Score:3, Funny)

by geminidomino ( 614729 ) * writes: on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @06:41AM (#19981173) Journal

You're obviously content with the size of your dick, and as such, are not the target demographic for PVP.

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Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

Damn (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

But like in any economy... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Class warfare? (Score:5, Funny)

ONE OF US (Score:1, Funny)

Comic endeavor (Score:5, Funny)

Yet Somehow... (Score:5, Funny)

What is World of Warcraft (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

yeah but... (Score:5, Funny)

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)

Åh nej! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yes... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Yes... (Score:3, Funny)

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Woo hoo! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:MMORPG popularity (Score:3, Funny)

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