{"id":87,"date":"2008-01-22T12:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-01-22T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:10:43","slug":"wow-thats-a-big-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/wow-thats-a-big-number\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW, that&#8217;s a big number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=17062\">WoW breaks 10-million subscribers.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blizzard also explicitly defined who it counted as subscribers, clarifying that the 10 million number (2.5 in the U.S and Europe each, 5 million in Asia; currently available in 7 languages and coming soon to Russian) refers to those who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access.<br \/>\nThe count does not include free promotional subscriptions, expired or canceled subscriptions or prepaid cards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the purposes of comparison, CoH has about 120 to 150 thousand active subscribers at any given time. LotRO has, at last report, 300k and rising.<br \/>\nPeople need to stop comparing WoW to other US-developed MMOs in terms of subscribers or size or &#8216;who wil be the WoW-killer&#8217;. 10 MILLION people isn&#8217;t a game, it&#8217;s a city. Comparing WoW to something like DnD Online is like comparing CoH&#8217;s playerbase to the population of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WoW breaks 10-million subscribers. Blizzard also explicitly defined who it counted as subscribers, clarifying that the 10 million number (2.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}