World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

technirvana writes "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."

That explains EVERYTHING...

[neokushan]

I've noticed a direct correlation with the amount of WoW subscribers and the amount I get laid.
Less competition for me? Let them play, boys, let them play!

Bwahahaha

[geminidomino]

Dance, my little piñata-smacking monkeys, dance for me!

All the way to the bank. BFD.

Actually

[Malevolent Tester]

There's one Asian player with 5.5 million gold farming accounts.

Re:That explains EVERYTHING...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, you read slashdot... you don't get laid

ouch

[TheCreeep]

World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

That must hurt...

Re:That explains EVERYTHING...

[goldspider]

You had competition from the kind of people who play World of Warcraft?

Re:How about taking some of that subscription mone

[The_reformant]

I'm so tired of people making such statements. You get ZERO new content for FREE. You pay a monthly subscription which funds new development, among other things. You PAID for the new content. It is not free!

The next, and qualifying, sentence was ..

Compare this to something like old-school EverQuest where your money just kind of vanished and every single new addition was through a paid expansion pack.

That seems like a better than average value proposition in this field. Perhaps your anger actually stems from your difficulties with reading comprehension. You would feel more at home on digg.

Subscribers?

[lbmouse]

Title should read:
Games: World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Virgins

Re:Subscribers?

[lbmouse]

They look like the mailman?

Re:That explains EVERYTHING...

[Anonymous Coward]

He means his porn sites are less laggy.

Re:munnies!

[geminidomino]

Well, you only need to play around 8 hours a day to bring your rate down to 6 cents an hour.

Did you just seriously say "only 8 hours a day?"

Re:That explains EVERYTHING...

[KKlaus]

Maybe he gets laid solely from prostitutes. Now the lines are shorter.

Re:Double/Triple accounts?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Slashdot,
I am cheap. Please teach me how to hack the game so that I don't have to pay Blizzard. Clearly, since I can have 10 characters, I should be able to log in simultaneously so that Blizzard can only get 1/10th the profit they are making from subscriptions (since everyone would share). I have no business sense so this all makes sense to me. Doing illegal things is ok as long as it saves me money and the company is profitable.

Sincerely,
stewbacca

Re:Subscribers?

[Lemmy Caution]

You know what really annoys me about that stereotype? The lengths that geeks will go to disprove it, dragging along their often-bored-and-disinterested girlfriends and wives along to events as if to prove "See? I'm getting laid!" It's ridiculous, and my beautiful wife who is here with me now agrees.