Where's the Mountain Dew?

It may have 11 million accounts but that does not mean it has 11 million unique users.

Heck, one guy alone has 36 accounts for himself, and I know many others who have 2-3 accounts for multiboxing.

Not to mention it sucks

But how does it factor in on GDP and land mass?

Eldre'thalas server has to have 400,000 accounts for only 100,000 ppl--or whatever hyperbolic figure you want to use. It seems like I'm the only one with a single account, whereas everyone else has at least two accounts. It's insane.

//not getting the xpac

Ok let's see if I can get these out of the way:

"I quit X long ago and my life is so much better now, I do all sorts of successful and fulfilling X. I can't believe I wasted so much of my life on it."

"70 Mage, 70 Warrior, 70 Hunter, 70 Warlock, 63 Paladin on Hellscream. For the Horde!"

"My husband plays this stupid game while our children mix poisons together in the garage and I work 3 jobs. Also I'm pregnant."

"You guys just need to learn about balance. I raid 8 times a week but I'm still a successful medical resident and I build a treehouse for my kids every night and also cook dinner and do the laundry."

Is that about right?

I wonder how much that number will vary if you deduct all the trial account users

Submitter:World of WarcraftAzeroth is now the 75th biggest country in the world

FTFY

/WoW Nerd

11 million x $15 month = $1.98B a year.

Not too shoddy there Blizzard.

Steamboat: Ok let's see if I can get these out of the way:

"I quit X long ago and my life is so much better now, I do all sorts of successful and fulfilling X. I can't believe I wasted so much of my life on it."

"70 Mage, 70 Warrior, 70 Hunter, 70 Warlock, 63 Paladin on Hellscream. For the Horde!"

"My husband plays this stupid game while our children mix poisons together in the garage and I work 3 jobs. Also I'm pregnant."

"You guys just need to learn about balance. I raid 8 times a week but I'm still a successful medical resident and I build a treehouse for my kids every night and also cook dinner and do the laundry."

Is that about right?

you forgot "it's only a game, learn some self control"

raptusregaliter

I have an Undead Mage on Eldre'thalas...Zedsded

And what sort of reproduction rates does this country have?

Steamboat: Ok let's see if I can get these out of the way:


"My husband plays this stupid game while our children mix poisonssexual positions together in the garage and I work 3 jobs. Also I'm pregnant."

Is that about right?

Steamboat

you forgot "I can't believe anyone would pay a fee every month to play a game they already bought, even though the cost per month is cheaper than the price of dinner at a casual restaurant."

I bet the mortality rate of this country is exceptionally high.

Why does this have the "Cool" tag?

\"Fail" tag far more appropriate.

goldschlager16: Steamboat

you forgot "I can't believe anyone would pay a fee every month to play a game they already bought, even though the cost per month is cheaper than the price of dinner at a casual restaurant."

Rape is good, as long as it's cheap.
/How YOU doin', ladies? Miss WOW wifey?

Wow. I mean I enjoyed it for a time. But its just way too time consuming. while I cant hate on people for playing it, I just dont think its possible to be really good at wow and have a reasonable social life. I played a bit in college, and the onyl reason I was able to have a social life is because I split a character with my friend, and even that was farking time consuming. Anyways, I got pretty sick of it once I hit 60. Didnt have a good guild. Didnt know how to find a good guild, and didnt care to be depended on to play a certain number of hours per week. To each his own, but dont try and convince me that you are really good at wow, and it doesnt affect your social life. And playing wow does not equal a social life no matte rhow hard you try.

Der Poopflinger: I wonder how much that number will vary if you deduct all the trial account users

Dinobot: It may have 11 million accounts but that does not mean it has 11 million unique users.

Heck, one guy alone has 36 accounts for himself, and I know many others who have 2-3 accounts for multiboxing.

(1) Blizzard does not count trial subscriptions in its user numbers. It does count users who are on their "free month" from having bought the game.

(2) Blizzard does count subscriptions and not users. It's debatable as to how many unique users they have. Blizzard won't say. It certainly is a few million less than the number they give out, but no one knows for sure.

(3) In any event, WoW is the most popular MMO that has ever existed. There is not a single other MMO that can claim even a million subscriptions, let alone users.

vinnydoz007: To each his own, but dont try and convince me that you are really good at wow, and it doesnt affect your social life. And playing wow does not equal a social life no matte rhow hard you try.

but the conundrum is, if you play WoW in a cyber cafe surrounded by other people playing WoW, do you have a social life?

vinnydoz007: Wow. I mean I enjoyed it for a time. But its just way too time consuming. while I cant hate on people for playing it, I just dont think its possible to be really good at wow and have a reasonable social life. I played a bit in college, and the onyl reason I was able to have a social life is because I split a character with my friend, and even that was farking time consuming. Anyways, I got pretty sick of it once I hit 60. Didnt have a good guild. Didnt know how to find a good guild, and didnt care to be depended on to play a certain number of hours per week. To each his own, but dont try and convince me that you are really good at wow, and it doesnt affect your social life. And playing wow does not equal a social life no matte rhow hard you try.

you're supposed to be good at it? it's like saying you're good at diablo, we're talking about a hack and slash not a flight sim. What qualifies as good at it?
/not one of those guys who's in a guild, cares if he makes a level, and doesn't really do raiding. I'm just in it for the fun and adventure, plus I like exploring

goldschlager16: Steamboat

you forgot "I can't believe anyone would pay a fee every month to play a game they already bought, even though the cost per month is cheaper than the price of dinner at a casual restaurant."

I actually continued to pay that $15/month for about 18 months after I stopped playing, because I was convinced that I'd come back some day.

/Yeah, I'm dumb.

worlddan: Der Poopflinger: I wonder how much that number will vary if you deduct all the trial account users

Dinobot: It may have 11 million accounts but that does not mean it has 11 million unique users.

Heck, one guy alone has 36 accounts for himself, and I know many others who have 2-3 accounts for multiboxing.

(1) Blizzard does not count trial subscriptions in its user numbers. It does count users who are on their "free month" from having bought the game.

(2) Blizzard does count subscriptions and not users. It's debatable as to how many unique users they have. Blizzard won't say. It certainly is a few million less than the number they give out, but no one knows for sure.

(3) In any event, WoW is the most popular MMO that has ever existed. There is not a single other MMO that can claim even a million subscriptions, let alone users.

thanks for that

goldschlager16: vinnydoz007: To each his own, but dont try and convince me that you are really good at wow, and it doesnt affect your social life. And playing wow does not equal a social life no matte rhow hard you try.

but the conundrum is, if you play WoW in a cyber cafe surrounded by other people playing WoW, do you have a social life?

STOP DIVIDING BY ZERO!

The Loaf: goldschlager16: Steamboat

you forgot "I can't believe anyone would pay a fee every month to play a game they already bought, even though the cost per month is cheaper than the price of dinner at a casual restaurant."

I actually continued to pay that $15/month for about 18 months after I stopped playing, because I was convinced that I'd come back some day.

/Yeah, I'm dumb.

you know you can cancel you subscription but your account wont be erased, I stopped playing for over a year and my account was still there (character and all), yes I only have 1 character

You guys DO realize that World of Warcraft is a computer game, and not a country, right? I mean it's one thing to say "WoW has as many unique users as the world's 75th largest country, but a correlation in population does not make it a sovereign nation.

//I play EQ2 anyways.

For the horde!

Minor fail on the "75th largest country" thing:

1 - World 6,706,993,152
2 - China 1,330,044,544
3 - India 1,147,995,904
4 - European Union 491,018,683
5 - United States 303,824,640
6 - Indonesia 237,512,352
7 - Brazil 196,342,592
...
17 - Germany 82,369,552
...
23 - France 64,057,792
24 - United Kingdom 60,943,912
25 - Italy 58,145,320
...
75 - Zimbabwe 11,350,111
76 - Greece 10,722,816

I know it's ticky-tacky, but if the European Union is a country, then Germany, UK, Italy, the rest of those weirdos can't be individual countries too, in the "most populated country" list.

They got rid of "World", (which is why it's 75 instead of 76), but they should have either discounted EU or the european countries in between.

I rarely play enough to justify the monthly subscription, but I will give WoW players this - your forums are a goldmine for trolling.

/brb, submitting a "Quitting over zombie event!" thread.

wheresourfish: I bet the mortality rate of this country is exceptionally high.

I lol'd.

There are three accounts in my household, one of them is supposed to be my daughter's, but I've pretty much taken it over. My sister and brother-in-law also play and we spend many friday / saturday nights after the kids are asleep dungeon diving as a group.

My parents used to play cards most weekends with their friends. We play WoW.

QT_3.14159: My parents used to play cards most weekends with their friends.

Coming from an avid video gamer, cards with friends is better.

You're next, Zimbabwe. Look out biatches.

Fellows: QT_3.14159: My parents used to play cards most weekends with their friends.

Coming from an avid video gamer, cards with friends is better.

Seconded. Especially when they continue to enthusiastically lose their money to me.

Fellows: I rarely play enough to justify the monthly subscription, but I will give WoW players this - your forums are a goldmine for trolling.

/brb, submitting a "Quitting over zombie event!" thread.

LOL...there were HUNDREDS of those posts.

The event was fun except for the fact that Blizz turned the entire game over to the rotten punks for almost a week. I did have a lot of fun pissing them off by sniping them from the bank rooftop in Ratchet.

nerdrage is funny. I got called every name n the book...and a few that hadn't been invented yet.

Cards with friends is no different than WoW with friends, that's my point. Except that when we're playing wow, we're playing cooperatively and we get to "accomplish" things as a group. It's fun - a lot of fun.

/Perhaps I should mention that we're all usually in the same room, around the dining room table with snacks and good company...

Can you enjoy WoW if you don't care about gameplay? Like, is it a decent medium through which to meet local people, sell or buy stuff, or find real-life activities? That's about the only reason I could see myself joining, if it were like a more dynamic craigslist.

QT_3.14159: Cards with friends is no different than WoW with friends, that's my point. Except that when we're playing wow, we're playing cooperatively and we get to "accomplish" things as a group. It's fun - a lot of fun.

when i played i played with a few people who knew each IRL. Their point was they all had young kids and couldn't leave them after they went to sleep. it was the best way for them to all actively spend some sort of weekday time together.

QT_3.14159: Cards with friends is no different than WoW with friends, that's my point.

No, I got your point. But you're wrong.

QT_3.14159: Except that when we're playing wow, we're playing cooperatively and we get to "accomplish" things as a group.

I don't want to "accomplish" things with my friends. I want to stomp the shiat out of them and take their money, all while laughing, drinking beer and anteing up to do it again.

Don't get me wrong, I think WoW is a great game. But it's Busch League compared to weekly card games with friends.

The Loaf: goldschlager16: Steamboat

you forgot "I can't believe anyone would pay a fee every month to play a game they already bought, even though the cost per month is cheaper than the price of dinner at a casual restaurant."

I actually continued to pay that $15/month for about 18 months after I stopped playing, because I was convinced that I'd come back some day.

/Yeah, I'm dumb.

uh.. they don't delete your chars/account. it's just disabled. man, did you waste some money for nothing.

/laff

Russ1642: What's the saying again? You're not a country until you've got an airline and a beer.

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. "
Frank Zappa

/link's hot unlike the chicks on wow

WoW players are the geeks that everyone accused real videogamers of being, and it's nothing more than a glorified chatroom and money-draining scam. Enjoy, suckers.

Yankees Team Gynecologist: Can you enjoy WoW if you don't care about gameplay? Like, is it a decent medium through which to meet local people, sell or buy stuff, or find real-life activities? That's about the only reason I could see myself joining, if it were like a more dynamic craigslist.

r u serious? If so, I'd say no. You can find those elements too, and often will. But if you don't care about contributing to others' effort in-game, then there's little chance noone will care about you. If you like the gameplay, you get the rest as a bonus.

goldschlager16: vinnydoz007: To each his own, but dont try and convince me that you are really good at wow, and it doesnt affect your social life. And playing wow does not equal a social life no matte rhow hard you try.

but the conundrum is, if you play WoW in a cyber cafe surrounded by other people playing WoW, do you have a social life?

You can have both. I enjoy WoW, so do some of my friends and none of us fit into the category you refer to. That's not to say there aren't lots of them, but you'll find all walks of life in there.

Didnt like depending on 39 retards in order to advance myself.

/runs a personal server, custom characters, any gear you want. Every other weekend or so about 6 of us play all night.

tlchwi02: when i played i played with a few people who knew each IRL. Their point was they all had young kids and couldn't leave them after they went to sleep. it was the best way for them to all actively spend some sort of weekday time together.

My sister has a 1 yr old and a 4 yr old. I have older kids and we usually go to their house, put on a movie for my kids and let them crash on the sofas until we eventually wind up around 2am. We've gone later a time or two, and ended earlier also, but my sister who is the one who's going to have to be up with the 1 yr old the next morning is usually willing to keep going because she's getting her adult interaction time.

The truth is that when you have little kids, getting out of the house is very expensive impractical. Baby sitters are hard to come by!

Fellows: I don't want to "accomplish" things with my friends. I want to stomp the shiat out of them and take their money, all while laughing, drinking beer and anteing up to do it again.

I'm glad I'm not your friend. I'll take the laughing & drinking with friends part and skip the competitive asshole part, thanks.

QT_3.14159: I'm glad I'm not your friend. I'll take the laughing & drinking with friends part and skip the competitive asshole part, thanks.

There's a waiting list, but you wouldn't make the cut anyway. My friends are all winners and fighters only.