8 Million
by David Wong
Over the weekend Blizzard announced their eight millionth subscriber for the hyperaddictive online game World of Warcraft.
That’s $15 a month for most subscribers, plus the $30 or so each of them paid for a copy of the game. That’s $240 million in game sales and $1.4 billion a year in subscription fees.
And think about this. The average gamer spends 21 hours a week in the game world. That’s 168 million hours a week combined. If all of those hours were stacked on top of another, they would still have no height because time doesn’t have a thickness, no matter how much of it you have.
