Most Popular MMORPG
Well, as expected, Blizzard has once again created the most popular game of a given category! In a press release on Blizzard’s site they announced meeting the 1 million paying customer mark in the US! Bringing the total of paying customers world wide to over 4 million. Assuming ~4 million customers @ $15/month…thats $60,000,000 every month. $720,000,000 dollars in a year (assuming the membership stays at around 4 million). Thats a lot of cash.
Its just amazing how this industry has been growing…A number of companies have been in the MMORPG market for a while, but it has been Blizzard’s World of Warcraft that has brought the industry to its full light. Blizzard’s followers from the hit Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series seemed to have simply followed the Genious company into their new realm of domination…and they brought their friends and family :) With numbers this high in the MMO industry (and growing) who knows what this could hold for the future!
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Posted: Sep 14th, 2005 at 1:34 pmBorkWeb » Blog Archive » Marketing MMORPGs to Women 1 -
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Posted: Nov 8th, 2005 at 11:32 amBorkWeb » Blog Archive » Leetster Reply to this comment.[...] World of Warcraft, as I’ve mentioned before is a very popular game. WoW, however, is more than just the game aspect…it is extremely social. Players can create guilds - which are organizations in game - and participate in a variety of player created events and interactions with other players. Guilds typically create websites (like this one: Crimson Eagles) to allow these players to communicate, strategize, complain, and brag. [...]
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Posted: Jan 9th, 2006 at 10:50 pmBorkWeb » Blog Archive » 0.07% of the World’s Population Plays World of Warcraft Reply to this comment.[...] World of Warcraft has increased in numbers since my last post. 0.07% of the World’s Population play WoW. Thats crazy. Doesn’t seem like much? Well, its 5 million people. What will that number be after Christmas? And yes, WoW has gained me as a subscriber once more… [...]
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Posted: Aug 29th, 2006 at 10:59 amBorkWeb » Bude’s Rip-Out Tunage Reply to this comment.[...] Bude tells me that he’s been ripping out in DotA and WoW to this song. In fact, here’s a quote from Bude himself: This song is f’n dangerous - it gets you pumped so bad you might actually break shit. When the drum beats hit before the solo - watch the FUCK OUT! So if you want something to listen to while you “Flip out and kill stuff” this is it. [...]
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mmorpg list
Posted: Jan 3rd, 2007 at 5:10 amReply to this comment.yup wow is the man.
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cool anti-geek
Posted: Jan 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pmReply to this comment.WoW IS FOR FUCKING GEEKS IT SUCKS BB. LOSERS
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GamersInstinct
Posted: Jan 29th, 2007 at 11:34 amReply to this comment.Not that much into WoW. I roll with L2 all the way.
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Washington State DUI
Posted: Jan 29th, 2007 at 11:35 amReply to this comment./agrees. Lineage II is fantastic. I have played for 2 plus years, and I have not considered quitting.
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Eclypte
Posted: Feb 1st, 2007 at 1:02 pmReply to this comment.100% of agree!
I play TIbia this game is ULTRA COOL !!!!!
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Posted: Mar 5th, 2007 at 5:51 pmBorkWeb » WTB Epic Flying Mount For 1 Butt Tattoo Reply to this comment.[...] World of Warcraft is permeating our lives and what we do to ourselves. Wow. This guy is truly one crazy dude. Read this quote from this member of the Garithos guild on the server of the same name. I was about 4000g away from being able to purchase my epic flying mount and riding skill, so I came up with a bright idea to raise the money and save me farming the gold myself (which would’ve taken months with my play schedule). [...]
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sna-san
Posted: Mar 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pmReply to this comment.NO U SUK BB WOW IS AWSOME
WoW IS FOR FUCKING GEEKS IT SUCKS BB. LOSERS
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virtualgoldkeeper
Posted: Apr 1st, 2008 at 5:08 amReply to this comment.that’s amazing:)
a good news to hear^^,got bored with farming gold and leveling? come to storeingame.com , we provide WOW gold,Powerleveling service, Kamas for Dofus, gold for Lotro, and other virtual currency for EVE, The Second Life, Guild War,Silkroad.
All those are with reasonable price, and fast speed12 -
samuel
Posted: Jul 11th, 2008 at 7:58 amReply to this comment.um.I play runescape til someone desides a good one. runescape was good til new update blah anyways try runescape.com just give it a try I got level 126 on free world 130 on mems lol well runescape is no download only for high detail whiches for mems, in mems you get skill cape at level 99 of something which i got all even summoning i tried runescape i liked it anyone want a lvl 60 i got it its very boring nonmembers/ f2p i can do WoW but its really not understanding than runescape I am a runescape fan i get really bored nonmembers worlds anyways i might quit runescape if someone finds a new website.
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samuel
Posted: Jul 11th, 2008 at 8:02 amReply to this comment.i forgot to tell you there is modship if you are very nice to people
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samuel
Posted: Jul 11th, 2008 at 8:04 amReply to this comment.please mesage rikua maru for any fuether quetions thank-you
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Jose
Posted: Aug 24th, 2008 at 2:29 pmReply to this comment.um.I play runescape til someone desides a good one. runescape was good til new update blah anyways try runescape.com just give it a try I got level 126 on free world 130 on mems lol well runescape is no download only for high detail whiches for mems, in mems you get skill cape at level 99 of something which i got all even summoning i tried runescape i liked it anyone want a lvl 60 i got it its very boring nonmembers/ f2p i can do WoW but its really not understanding than runescape I am a runescape fan i get really bored nonmembers worlds anyways i might quit runescape if someone finds a new website.
To put it simple Runescape is 90% Kids, Muity accounts, and bots. there is only like 10% of teens and older playing that game. True mmo’ers will not play that game as their main mmo. there are a ton of MMOs that are free. but you have to download. but that makes it safer cause they have hack blockers and its harder for them to Hack you (UNlike RS) but i think the True besst mmo is a lesser known MMO and probly the game with the most privite survers, Ragnarok. the 2nd 1 is in Korea in its Open beta and will not be out in english till next year or so. But the privite survers will be out sooner. for you people who read this check the game out
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[...] As we can see, MMORPGs are becoming increasingly more popular to the world at large (World of Warcraft in particular). These games are now appealing to the masses rather than the small sub-groups of geeks that have been pocketed around the country for years. When I play WoW or discuss WoW in a group setting, I find that more and more women 1) have heard of it and 2) have played it. [...]