This WoW Infographic Presents Quite a Few Really Big Numbers

[UnravThreads]

Those figures for "Legendary" seem completely wrong. I'm pretty damned sure there's more than 8 Legendary items floating about, especially when one factors in Karazhan.

 

[tk1989]

Those figures for "Legendary" seem completely wrong. I'm pretty damned sure there's more than 8 Legendary items floating about, especially when one factors in Karazhan.

I was going to say. I remember when I played vanilla wow i know i saw at least a couple of people with Sulfuras on my server alone, same goes for thunderfury. Maybe those are the guilds that were first to get the legendary items?

 

[Inkidu]

All that for a grind of a game...

It's kind of like the amount of money people pay for Pollock paintings.

 

[Azaraxzealot]

what really stood out to me is that about 48% of WoW players are based in Asia.

and with the news that people get forced to farm gold in chinese work camps, you can probably guess what's going on in that 48%...

 

[fix-the-spade]

Sorry, you wouldn't own that computer though, that computer would own you.

Bet it won't be appreciably smarter than my current computer.

The first PC I had had 166Mhz on a single core, 32MB of RAM and a HDD of less than 500MB. The next one I'm going to build will have 4.8Ghz on four cores, 32GB(!!!) of RAM and around 10TB of memory space. Whilst it's oing to be infinitely better and rendering and cutting video than that grand old Atlantic it's still just going to be a calculator with a user interface.

You watch, our kids will be sat around wondering how such a massive undertaking as an MMO could possibly operate on so little horsepower.

 

[Proteus214]

And they actually recognized the conquest of the ultra-hardcore guilds in this? Score. And they didn't even mention Blood Legion? Double score.

 

[Baldr]

Running the servers is chump change compared to paying the near thousand employees that develop, do localization, and customer service for the game.

 

[LavaLampBamboo]

It really is interesting to see all of this info.

One thing I've always wondered though is the number of players of WoW has. I mean I have a WoW account, but I haven't played in years. Am I still count as one of that 11.5 million? It'd be interesting to see how many of these accounts are actually active.

No, you aren't. That number represents active, non-trial accounts.

According to Rob Pardo [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96113-Blizzards-Rob-Pardo-Talks-Five-Years-of-Warcraft], the total number of non-trial WoW accounts that have ever been made is somewhere from 22-33 million, probably closer to the higher end of that scale (and that was back in 2009).

Ahh, that's really interesting, thanks for that, John =)

 

[standokan]

1 of 5 players is female, you think THAT was mindblowing?

1 of 3 porn viewers is female, comprehend that brain.

 

[Cousin_IT]

Wonder what their carbon footprint looks like?

 

[RA92]

You watch, our kids will be sat around wondering how such a massive undertaking as an MMO could possibly operate on so little horsepower.

And each of them will run their own... weather forecasting system, I guess? And they'll have vicious arguments about who's prediction on the rate of precipitation is more accurate?

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Its the most mediocre game to ever achieve such success! All because of the name. It'd be interesting to see the exact same game released but by another company under another name. I bet it would have disappeared long ago.

 

[seditary]

Its the most mediocre game to ever achieve such success! All because of the name. It'd be interesting to see the exact same game released but by another company under another name. I bet it would have disappeared long ago.

If it was released when WoW was released and WoW didn't exist it'd do pretty well, not as well as WoW but back then, it really was pretty damn good compared to the competition.

 

[veloper]

So it costs about 7 times as much to add another quad core computer to Blizzard's farm, than to buy one as a consumer.

 

[Angerwing]

I used to be on a battlegroup with Death and Taxes. Those guys fucking STOMPED.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Its the most mediocre game to ever achieve such success! All because of the name. It'd be interesting to see the exact same game released but by another company under another name. I bet it would have disappeared long ago.

go play cataclysm, i'll wait.

yeah, it kinda improved a lot, there's a story and all that :O

OT: so in 3 years, warcraft will be 20 years old. thanks for making me feel old escapist!

Yeah to be fair, I haven't played that one. I only played original WoW. I heard the new expansion was a lot better. The thing is that all the "new" stuff that is really creative and new for WoW, is stuff that other games have been doing for awhile now. WoW is just now catching up from the grindfest.
Although, I shouldn't be too cruel on WoW, I think almost all MMOs suck however I am still waiting for one to impress me.