Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that the subscribership for World of Warcraft(r), its award-winning massively multiplayer onlinerole-playing game (MMORPG), now exceeds 11 million players worldwide. This milestone was reached as the beta test for Wrath of the Lich King(r), World of Warcraft's second expansion, nears completion. Wrath of the Lich King will launch in several regions around the world starting on November 13, with Australia and New Zealand following
soon after on November 14.

"It's been very rewarding to see gamers around the world continue to show such strong support for World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment.

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Is that concurrent players? Does that include everyone who ever signed up ever, even for trial accounts? Does it take in to account players who have more than one account?

Because realistically the number would be lucky to be half of that.

Is that concurrent players? Does that include everyone who ever signed up ever, even for trial accounts? Does it take in to account players who have more than one account?

Hmm I was thinking of asking the same thing more or less but you beat me to it.

And even though WoW was launched in Russia & Latin America recently,I still tend to think Blizzard may over-exaggerated a bit on that final figure somehow.

It's been a complete change. Barely anyone that played regularly pre-BC still plays regularly. There's a whole new breed of lamewads acting as if they own the place and getting freaked out by a whole new breed of new players coming on board for the Lich King.

The whole place is messed up.

It's been a complete change. Barely anyone that played regularly pre-BC still plays regularly. There's a whole new breed of lamewads acting as if they own the place and getting freaked out by a whole new breed of new players coming on board for the Lich King.

The whole place is messed up.

/Agree

Original Luanch was so much better then current WoW. Everyone had to work so much harder on a decent toon, and not every other 12yr old was in fricken epic PvP gear and able to one shot you cos bliz wouldn't nerf their class.

I really wish Bliz would start to segregate their servers a bit more, atleast have a server with an age restriction on it so not every person who sees me on my epic flyer begs me for gold, or asks me where I got every piece of gear I have.