You have to give credit to Blizzard here... They did it alright... 10 Million users, on a single MMO... Wow...

10 Million people need to reattach their testicles, stop sprinkling fairy dust on each other, and get an FPS (like Soldier of Fortune 2 or Call of Duty 4).

10 Million users at just 13.00 a month = 130 million a month not "15 million just for keeping the servers up and running."

Your missing a zero. Or to run the numbers of 15.00 a month its 1.8 Billion a year if you calculate the time between major expansion packs let alone the fact that blizzard charges people for the expansion packs.

... a program made to count the people that don't get laid. It is working, 10 million so far and counting ...

10 million * ( $13 $24 ) / 2 !=~ $15 million

China players pay pennies per hour. They are not on $15 -$24 / month plans. More like a dime per hour. Hence the 5.5 million players.

Only the US. and Europe players pay more.

This game is for kids and the mentally retarded.

If you use $13 as the base and times that by 10 million it is $130 million not $13 million. If you add (13 24)/2 it will be 18.5 a month making it 185 million.

The number of people with no life now reaches 10 million people.

Admittedly, I have played this game for 3 years but have recently become bored with it over the last 6 months and quite happy not to go back to it.

Unfortunately, my wife is still interested in playing it but she's not addicted like some.

I'd recommend people stay away from the game. It's really surprising how time slips away from you when you're playing it. It hasn't caused any problems in our relationship but I know online friends who have had marriages break up over it which is crazy. It's just not worth it.

And before you go bleating on about being lame etc. I'm actually a succesful IT professional and my wife is a ICU qualified nurse, so we're not dumbarses.

Unless you have played the game for any length of time (3 months on a regular basis) then you have no idea on how this game ties you in with the online communities it creates, you can only imagine. Too much to explain in one of these comments.

On a positive note on the game, it actually saves us ~$1,500 a month, which is what our social life was costing us before getting the game (restaurants, movies, petrol etc). So it's helped our investments. :)

Although everyone looks at how much Bliz earns, it would be interesting to see how everyone's savings has increased because of it. There's a very large spread of age groups.

Anyway.. there you go.. the perspective of somebody who actually played the game very reguarly for a long time.

Cheers,
Davo

Just because they receive x amount of dollars a month per user does not mean that they make x amount of dollars profit. Consider the amount of effort fixing bugs, new development, new content, providing support and handling bandwidth and hardware capabilities to maintain a network for 10 million users. The dollars make sense.

Even if you just count North America and Europe (4.5 million subscribers) at $13 a month (and I'm sure Europe pays the $24 US because of the exchange rate thats about 13 dollars in like England) that would be $58.5 Million US.

On top of that it doesn't matter how much you hate wow you have to respect what they've been able to accomplish.

Try palying something that requires skill, not time...

There are certainly a lot of WOW haters out there. Their perceptions of the game are inaccurate anyway. I happen to know quite a few people that play WOW and a) they get laid, b) they have a life. Your attitude seems to indicate that those things in your life are unfulfilling. Perhaps if you work on your 'character' a bit, better people would associate with you and you wouldn't be so miserable. :)

well out of 10 million there HAS to be at least 1 or 2 person getting laid... so youre techniquely right. But listening to your friends on Vent and taking their words for it is suspect.

The majority of the WOW players IVE seen, do not have GFs, and still live at home with parents with a blanket over their window blocking all sunlight. I lead a full filling life, for starters.... i dont play WOW.

:o)

I play it when I am bored and dont have anything else to do... it knows to be boring but it is fun some thime I pay maybe every second month

So if we assume that Blizzard is taking in $130,000,000 per MONTH that means that they take in $1,560,000,000 per year...that INSANE!!!! it cant possibly cost more than like 1,000,000 per month for server costs and a handfull if IT guys for fixing bugs that may arise. Seriously, they make a retarded amount of money off this game. 1million a month is, IMO, an OVERestimation of what it costs them to continue supporting WOW.

THEY"RE PIRATES I SAY!!!!