World Of Warcraft Fever - 6 millions players

Over 6 millions players all world World of Warcraft dont stop getting new players. According to Blizzard Entertainment this number already passed 6 millions players who play in World of Warcraft Virtual World. According with the game producer this number of players doesn't count with promotional subscriptions, canceled accounts or expired. Some weeks ago blizzard suspended temporally the creatons of new caracters to slow down the waiting time, witch was alredy passing 30 min. Blizzard already is working in a patch to improve the game. This sucess its fundamental to balance the bank accounts of Vivendi Universal Games, mother of Blizzard, witch close the 2005 year with profits of 49 millions dollars, when in 2004 they had more 200 millions dollars of no-profits. Personally i dont know this game, but if it has so many players, maybe i'll take a look. cheers

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I tried it out, it wasnt for me. It was too anti social and you could solo the whole thing and it was just overall too easy

I canceled after my trial. I've played much better mmorpgs

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I agree it was to easy for me to, I play Anarchy Online at the moment. Its a bit older but its a lot more difficult to play, makes it a lot more fun and it takes more time to find out what's best for your character. Great game, free untill end of 2006!
www.anarchyonline.com

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it was a good game

end game content was great but we conquered it got all our stuff and i'm done with it

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Looks like a great game, but I can't afford the hours nor the price per month. Well I could afford it but it wouldn't be healthy for me. Other things always come up. Maybe back when I was in high school I could afford the time, but I hear it's addictive. I spend enough time as it is with quake 3.

All in all I think this is a great game for an avid game player. For someone who just wants to pace themselves I would think guild wars would be a good replacement. Then again I've never played either. I hear I'm missing out, but I'm sure there will be bigger and better games come along in the future.

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Played it for 14 months, 14 months of being a guild officer somehow which only added to the experience. Managing a game guild has never been that much fun and work, as an learning experience.
I loved the PvE element, Co-Op with 40 and master encounters.

However guild folded before a migration and I thought it had been enough time, as it became difficult to get another great guild to experience end-game. The co-ordination... This is the best game I've ever played and spent time in (over 2k hours). But now it would have become too troublesome with studies and social life had to let it go.

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Update to main topic

Read the following on a news post on digg.com

World of Warcraft passes 50 percent market share

Source: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060601-6964.html

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While I think the game is worth such attention, bit wondered how they spend their funds. Usually dungeon content is badly tested (end-game raiding guilds have been acting as Q&A for too long) and think that with such a huge playerbase and revenue income they can do 'more'. All in all though they are proving great patches.

And best of all, they got newer players in the market. Not just stealing market 'shares' from another game.

 

 

 

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Though I do have to agree with you for the game being too easy I dont agree with a person being able to solo the whole thing. Any character can go from 1-60 solo. But that means you will be missing out on half the game. You wont be able to handle many "instances" besides one much lower then your level. Also raids are what makes the game cool for the level 60's who have nothing else to do. Single handedly you couldnt never take down Onyxia or some other huge boss... But with a group its quite exciting.

I have taken the road to 60 a few times. Thought it is easy to level you really cant enjoy the full game playing solo

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I like this game. I like it's style and i like that there are many things to do. There is a very nice community (i mean there are a lot people playing this game) so there won't be any trouble finding friends. It's easy of course, but if you know how to play rpg's. If you will jump from CS into WoW, then i don't think that it will be easy for you.

Did you know that WoW "killed" a young player? A young boy was playing WoW and he didn't stop. Even his parents couldn't stop him. He didn't eat, didn't drink, i don't think he even went to toilet so his parents took WoW to court. It's possible that someone will shut down WoW if this will happen more times. A game killing player? This doesn't sound good.

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Stupid people like this guy are supposed to die anyway... (Yes, I'm usually this evil.)
Now seriously, I don't think a game would ever be shut down due to such happenings. Game producers have no guilty of the player's mental illness, in any way. As idiot as him were his parents, who proved incapable of raising a child, setting bounds, look for medical help. Taking this to court is simply ridiculous, the ones to be prosecuted are them.
It's been a while that this kind of thing happens in the world... people who use a grass cutter to cut their hair, an so on. Humanity is lacking good sense. In a few years, products' boxes will come with a 12 page manual telling you what you can and what cannot do with it, which holes of your body is ok to put it in...

Now back to the topic.
WoW is a a visually nice game, and good to play (I used to play in a "local" server, let's say). But it's just not my kind of game. It is a bit too focused on spending time, and not skill, in my opinion. I'm more into storyline, etc. Still, is very good for co-op gaming and all that. Though, if you don't have much free time the game may show a little boring. The nice stuff usually happens after level 40... =)

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