World of Warcraft breaks 9 million subscribers!

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ckmlb said:
What is with comparing the WOW userbase to Xbox Live and PSN?

Anyway, this game keeps growing it's insane. There's nothing stopping it.

I always wonder by 9 million do they mean people who have ever subscribed to WOW or people who are currently subscribed.

To put the game's enormity into perspective? 9 million sounds like a lot, and it REALLY sounds like a lot when you compare it to the competition. Conversely, if I said it had 9 million subscribers... then it turned out that the competition had, say, 20 million and 40 million subscribers, then that would make the game's accomplishment relatively less significant. 

And its current subscribers. That's been made quite clear in several of their press releases.