World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million

Dwarves, elves, gnomes, undead... all WoWers now have a reason to dance. World of Warcraft has consumed its 9 millionth victim... I mean customer. That was the official news from Blizzard today.

The 9,000,000 includes all active accounts including ones still on their free trial time, but it does not include cancelled or expired accounts(such as mine from years ago). This is pretty impressive, and World of Warcraft doesn't look like it will be slowing its momentum anytime soon.


The game has reached this peak less than 3 years after its release in November 2004 and is credited with revolutionizing the MMORPG world. It is still one of the most copied games when it comes to new MMORPGs and takes up a lot of people's time(I know because I have a lot of friends consumed by the game). The game is available in seven different languages and played worldwide.

Let's do some quick math. $15/month subscription fee at 9,000,000 subscribers... $135 million per month?! I need to get out there and program a MMORPG of my own.

XYBA Podcast Ep 02

Here is our 2nd episode of XYBA Podcast. This time it is the full crew with Andy, Charlie, Eric, Grant, and Josh along with guest Jeff Kazbek from Bleeding Sky Studios. Jeff helps situate the mics, so the audio is a little bit better. We definitely need more mics. We cover the news (read by Andy with rebuttals), why Jeff hates Blazing Angels on PS3, Eric's grandma destroying him at Wii Bowling, World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusades, GTA Monsters video game idea, our first Gears of War tournament, Grants claim that Unreal 3 will be a highly anticipated game, Charlie picking an opening song that isn't a song at all, and much more. Enjoy and let us know what you think and what you would like to hear about.


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