Sorry only just seen this comment having posted another article :)
WoW may well have sold 20 million copies. Subscribers do not equal sales. This however is with regard to the second expansion pack targeted towards hardcore players. A good proportion of the WoW userbase are likely to be quite happy playing the base game or Burning Crusade.
I still maintain if Burning Crusade hit a big milestone like 10m we'd have heard about it.
20m for this is just bonkers though and it's very VERY debatable IMO whether this will every see the light of day there. Whatever you think about WoW sales, if you discount China you have to remove 40-45% of the global total.
Game regulation is the field I work in. I can't claim to being an expert on China but I do know the Chinese Govt. are very keen to do something about foreign MMO's.
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Sorry only just seen this comment having posted another article :)
WoW may well have sold 20 million copies. Subscribers do not equal sales. This however is with regard to the second expansion pack targeted towards hardcore players. A good proportion of the WoW userbase are likely to be quite happy playing the base game or Burning Crusade.
I still maintain if Burning Crusade hit a big milestone like 10m we'd have heard about it.
20m for this is just bonkers though and it's very VERY debatable IMO whether this will every see the light of day there. Whatever you think about WoW sales, if you discount China you have to remove 40-45% of the global total.
Game regulation is the field I work in. I can't claim to being an expert on China but I do know the Chinese Govt. are very keen to do something about foreign MMO's.