China and World of Warcraft Statistics

By Paul Kedrosky · September 5, 2006 · ·

From today’s N.Y. Times, some staggering statistics on World of Warcraft’s rise since its launch two years ago:

  • 7m active subscribers paying average $14/mo
  • $1b in revenue this year
  • First major online game to have more subscribers in China than in U.S.
  • Arguably the most lucrative single media property anywhere

As an aside, I’ve never used it, thus pegging me as a gaming dinosaur.

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Comments

  1. Tomas Sancio says:
    September 6, 2006 at 11:15 am

    You’re not a gaming dinosaur, you just have more things to do in your life than to spend hours in front of a computer pretending to be somebody else.