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Not true... Players in China have a different payment system and many of them basically pay by the hour. The9 handles the money and gives Blizzard a cut.

I sure hope they add more servers then...one million MORE subscribers isn't going to help the lag/disconnection issue any.

As so long as Blizzard remember key things like making an MMO like a console game; adding content while making mass changes to principles like classes every so few years to spice things up; it will continue to be hard for many to leave the game. World of Starcraft might tho and since both is owned by Blizzard that can only spell even MORE money since the sci-fi aspect has not been truly been tapped into thanks in large to the failure of SWG head of developers. Now is the time to bring out Starcraft for an MMO of Knights of the Republic does. To be a Jedi in a porper era? Better hurry Blizzard.

@ Hams,
it seems that they expect the majority of the new player base to be from china with the increasing popularity there. Sure North America an Europe may get more subscribers as well, but i dont think it will affect our gameplay much besides the possibility of more gold spammers

Seems atypical to me. None of my friends that play have more than one account. I currently have two, though I opened the second purely to level thru RAF and will be transferring the character to my main account when I'm done.

Have to agree with Manatank. If Blizzard had over 10 million subs they would make sure everyone knows it.

Its more likely that there are 6-7 million ACTUAL players since it seems a large amount of the population owns one or more accounts.

"If Blizzard had over 10 million subs they would make sure everyone knows it."

They do have over 10 million subscriptions and they have put out press releases to make sure everyone knows it.

How many actual human beings there are behind those 10.9 million subscriptions, that we don't know. But why is that significant? Who cares whether there are 10 million and 900,000 of them play two accounts, or whether there are 10.5 million, and 400,000 of them play two accounts. Same amount of revenue either way.

"They do have over 10 million subscriptions and they have put out press releases to make sure everyone knows it."

I ment it in terms of millions, as in having 11 million subs. They havent gotten to that point since they last told us 10 million subs in January.

And the whole "we have 10 million subs" is kind of mis-leading because most people will assume they mean 10 million players in which case the game probably never had that many individual players.

Not to mention its doubtful they have even 10 million subs right now.

Down a bit but here ya go.

http://finance.aol.com/quotes/activision-blizzard-inc/atvi/nas

Yea same here. To be honest, I'm more turned off than ever in terms of trying to search for that WoW replacement. I think I'll wait until Blizz releases their 'next gen mmo' for my next fix, WoW is great for now.

My thoughts exactly! It may even be WoW2 But I think I can live with that if indeed that is the case.

World of Zerghammer.