Wow! 2M Playing WoW! [Jun 14, 2005, 08:38 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
World of
Warcraft Achieves New Milestone with Two Million Paying Subscribers is the
press release announcing a new subscription threshold achieved by Blizzard's
MMORPG, with further breakthroughs expected when the game launches in China:
World of Warcraft recently surpassed the two million mark for paying subscribers. Already the largest MMO in both North America and Europe, Blizzard expects to see even greater growth with the recent commercial launch in China on June 7, 2005. Anticipation for World of Warcraft was already at an all-time high in China, with peak concurrency during the open beta test topping 500,000 players, nearly equal to World of Warcraft's peak concurrency in all three current markets combined. Blizzard expects to see the new mark of two million subscribers shattered quickly with the arrival of players from China in the coming weeks.
Tax Man at 40 Pecent at all ends of the money movement leaves them 360,000,000 * 0.60 = 216000000.
Don't confuse revenue with profits. There are development and marketing costs, server and bandwith costs. I am sure Blizzard spent a ton of money during the game's long gestation. And you have to pay your employees.
Sure Blizzard is making money, but how much money cannot determined simply by multiplying the monthly fee with the 2 million subscribers. And as someone else mentioned, it is not clear whether the 2 million refers to the total subscribers, or total average monthly subscribers - BIG difference there.
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