I’d say about 1 in 2 people reading this either play World of Warcraft, know someone that plays it, or has completely lost their lives to it. The reason I know that is because the expansion pack to WoW, Wrath of the Lich King set record numbers for sales its first 24 hours upon release.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King sold 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of release. Although all the markets are looking down because of the economy, video games, WoW in particular are looking like everything is gravy. The main reason being is that during turbulent economic times people still want to be entertained. Even more so than when times are good.
The Lich King Is Laughing Maniacally At All The Gold
So, just how much money has Blizzard, now Blizzard-Activision made off the WoW franchise? Well, it’s estimated that around 11 million subscribers play WoW. Most of those people have upgrade to the Burning Crusade, the expansion that came out prior to Wrath of the Lich King. Then tally up those software totals, with the $15/month that WoW players must pay in order to play their game everymonth. Financially it estimates to about a $1 billion/year industry.
Just think of how much money you’d have right now if you had invested in Blizzard back when their big release was Lost Vikings on the SNES.
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February 28th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I think I remember using a friend’s cds to install wow on my computer when I lost mine, but now have my original cds installed. I think I remember a few cases of friend’s using each others’ cds. Will this work?
May 20th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Holy Begesus! that’s a lot of money to make from a single franchise
April 8th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Yeah I can vouch for this one haha. I play it all the time and it’s definitely addicting.
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