Has World of Warcraft grown by an insane amount lately?

[Darthvoy]

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: Powermoloch

Originally posted by: Alphathree33
I haven't played for about four months and I checked the realm status today and there seem to be way, way, way more servers than there were before.

Am I hallucinating?

mmmmkkay

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Pwned

 

[Adul]

112 servers and they just added another one.

 

[Eeezee]

More people are getting suckered in by the day

 

[Eeezee]

They need to stop messing around with this WOW bullshat and work on Starcraft 2. Starcraft is their best RTS game to date!

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
More people are getting suckered in by the day

True, but I don't see what bearing this has on the conversation

 

[Xylitol]

Hopefully its not grown...

 

[Falloutboy]

:thumbsdown: for seperate servers.
:thumbsup: for a single server

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I wonder how many of those are the recent onslaught from the 10 and 14 day trials they recently did?

I played my 14 days, if it weren't for the high monthly fee, I'd likely kept playing. It's like a visual form of heroin.

 

[statik213]

how much is a copy of wow going for these days?

 

[BRObedoza]

coworker of mine said she her thirteen year old son wanted world of warcraft for christmas. i told her that might not be such a great idea.

 

[Heifetz]

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: DAWeinG
Yup since October 2005, WoW has had over 4.5 million active subscribers.

Official on Blizzard's WoW website

It says 1.5

Nevermind you're right. Wow. 4.5 million subscribers @ 14.95 each per month.

$807,300,000 a year.

where did you learn math? 4.5 x 15 is 67.5 mil

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: statik213
how much is a copy of wow going for these days?

anywhere from $20-30 but if you pay more than $20, Blizzard will refund the difference...

they're useing the old technique of selling for cheap and getting people hooked and making them pay monthly for their addiction!

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
:thumbsdown: for seperate servers.
:thumbsup: for a single server

I don't see how it is possible to fit 1 million players on ONE server when it's an MMO.

 

[Xylitol]

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[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: PHiuR

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
:thumbsdown: for seperate servers.
:thumbsup: for a single server

I don't see how it is possible to fit 1 million players on ONE server when it's an MMO.

ever heard of EvE? one persistant world

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Heifetz

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: DAWeinG
Yup since October 2005, WoW has had over 4.5 million active subscribers.

Official on Blizzard's WoW website

It says 1.5

Nevermind you're right. Wow. 4.5 million subscribers @ 14.95 each per month.

$807,300,000 a year.

where did you learn math? 4.5 x 15 is 67.5 mil

In school likely 4.5*14.95*12=807.3Mil a year.

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong

Originally posted by: Heifetz

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: Alphathree33

Originally posted by: DAWeinG
Yup since October 2005, WoW has had over 4.5 million active subscribers.

Official on Blizzard's WoW website

It says 1.5

Nevermind you're right. Wow. 4.5 million subscribers @ 14.95 each per month.

$807,300,000 a year.

where did you learn math? 4.5 x 15 is 67.5 mil

In school likely 4.5*14.95*12=807.3Mil a year.

lol :laugh:

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: PHiuR

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
:thumbsdown: for seperate servers.
:thumbsup: for a single server

I don't see how it is possible to fit 1 million players on ONE server when it's an MMO.

ever heard of EvE? one persistant world

Yup, I play EVE. Way more fun that ridiculously grinding one does in WoW.

 

[Velk]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy

Originally posted by: PHiuR

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
:thumbsdown: for seperate servers.
:thumbsup: for a single server

I don't see how it is possible to fit 1 million players on ONE server when it's an MMO.

ever heard of EvE? one persistant world

That's not a comeback. EVE has less than half a percent of WoW's subscribers, and their peak concurrency of 19k users is not even remotely comparable to 1 million players.

Increasing the user base by 200 times means crowded sectors will have 40,000 ships in them instead of 200 - do you *really* think that EVE will remain playable like that ?

Edit: math is hard mkay

 

[Falloutboy]

eve is at about 100,000 subs currently, WoW is 1.5M yes wow has alot more but its by no means 200 times more.

 

[ScreamingJesus]

WoW is at 4.5m not 1.5

edit: 100th post
double edit: should make it usefull...WoW = fun

 

[Alphathree33]

Heh. I'm STILL patching.

The stupid peer to peer blizzard downloader is working like sh!t for me despite having my firewall configured correctly, so I had to go patch manually to version 1.8.0. Then I had to wait in line for 45 minutes at FilePlanet to get 1.8.4... which is 250 MB... which I am now downloading.

Lol. Wonderful service.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: Falloutboy
eve is at about 100,000 subs currently, WoW is 1.5M yes wow has alot more but its by no means 200 times more.

Trying to include those Eve Trial accounts are we? Last I checked, which was not long ago was that Eve Online had only 50,000 players. No more than 19K at one time and that is rare... Most sectors only have one or two players in them and the packed ones may have 200? Nothing special at all really.

Glad you like Eve Online, but this thread doesn't have anything to do with it. Besides, one server for WoW would be incredably stupid even if it was possible, it just means you have to deal with even more morons and when majority rules, that is not a good thing.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
I wonder how many of those are the recent onslaught from the 10 and 14 day trials they recently did?

I played my 14 days, if it weren't for the high monthly fee, I'd likely kept playing. It's like a visual form of heroin.

none. they had that many people before they started the free trials.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
coworker of mine said she her thirteen year old son wanted world of warcraft for christmas. i told her that might not be such a great idea.

why not?