Ickalanda on 08 January 2009
| DaveD said: Yeah, games like WoW are undertracked by a mil+ =p |
lol, WoW is more like undertracked by 10 million.
The numbers blizzard releases is just current active accounts, and a huge number of accounts are no long active anymore. The actual number of accounts created (non-trial), which means they bought the game, is easily in the range of 15-25 million world wide. For example, out of all of my friends that have played the game, I easily know 8 9 or 10 people who have quit playing the game at some point over the past few years, so they are no longer included in the WoW number of subscribers.
That is why the game has been such an accomplishment, many other MMOs actually drop in user base rather than continue to increase for as long as WoW has.
