World of Warcraft Hits 9.3 Million Players

Gamasutra is reporting that, along with Vivendi's ever-increasing earnings, recent information has been released updating the current player stats for World of Warcraft. Despite suspicions of falling numbers due to the long wait between now and Rise of the Lich King, Blizzard's Massive title is larger than ever, with some 9.3 million players. "Vivendi has chalked up the increase not only to its WoW subscriber base, but the release of its The Burning Crusade expansion, which saw release in China in the latter part of the third quarter ... The company also noted that its subscriber base has continued to grow from the 9 million mark it celebrated in July to more than 9.3 million, which it says is up more than one million subscribers since December 31 of last year."

Frightening

[denisbergeron]

If you take this news and add it that one [slashdot.org]

It's the biggest botnet in the world.

Quite a milestone

[wampus]

You never forget your first 9.3 million subscribers.

Re:That would be true...

[Selfbain]

I guess you've never tried to access the mod sites the day of a patch.

Re:9.3 what?

[jkabbe]

In all likelihood it means 2 million active player accounts, 1 million mule accounts, and 6.3 million gold farming accounts.

Re:Quite a milestone

[Volante3192]

Yes, there'll always be a special place in Blizzard's heart for #9,299,987.

I also hope this isn't foreshadowing another post when they hit 9.4M...

Re:That would be true...

[Spectre]

Given that the most recent patch was about 200MB in size and distributed via a torrent ... I wonder if COMCAST would agree (wankers).

Impressive!

[SpacePunk]

That's a lot of virgins. It makes you wonder if WOW has more virgins than Slashdot, but I'm sure there's some overlap.