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agentguin
creating this forum to share fun facts about WoW. here are a few to start:
"In 2005, a Beijing man playing under the name “Snowly” geared up for a particularly challenging quest, and proceeded to play for several days straight. He was found dead not long after. In New Taipei City, Taiwan, a 23 year old died after playing for 23 hours straight in an Internet cafe. According to one report, “He fell on the table to sleep several times, but woke up again to continue playing the game.” Until he didn’t."
"At its height in 2010, the game took in $1.23 billion. In 2009, it took in $1.24 billion; 2008 was a slow year, banking a pittance of $1.15 billion. The game costs quite a bit to operate—$240 million—but the company still pockets a cool billion dollars on a good year."
"According to MMORPG Realm, it took 150 developers four years to write the game’s 5.5 million lines of code; create its 30,000 items; design and build its 1400 locations; plan and implement its 7600 missions; and give life to 5300 non-player characters.
Only 22% of players are located in the United States; Asia is where the action is, comprising 48% of the game’s subscriber base. 80% of players are male, and they’re most likely to play as humans, the most popular race in the game."
facts taken from mentalfloss.com
Post by
Jkpman
I liked the player location fact. It's easy to think of the game as America centric, but I think the massive number of people who went to see the movie in Asia was an eye opener to what a phenomenon WoW is in Asia.
I certainly wasn't aware it had such a huge fan base having only really heard tidbits about how the game is different in some locations due to superstitions and censorship.
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