{"id":1579,"date":"2009-08-02T02:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T07:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/02\/wow-pushes-towards-the-12-million-mark\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T14:08:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T19:08:38","slug":"wow-pushes-towards-the-12-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/02\/wow-pushes-towards-the-12-million-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW pushes towards the 12 million mark."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is pretty damn impressive that the World of Warcraft (WoW) subscriber base is currently at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/world-of-warcraft-us-retail-sales-reach-8-6-million\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/world-of-warcraft-us-retail-sales-reach-8-6-million', '11.5 million');\" target=\"new\">11.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, Activision Blizzard\u2019s most recent World of Warcraft subscriber figures revealed 11.5 million users are signed up to the game, with those located in the US paying USD 15 a month to play online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is one hell of a cash cow.  I have considered re-subscribing, but at $15\/month I will probably not get value for my dollar.  Not that WoW is not a fun game \u2013 it is highly addicting and fun to progress your character(s) skills.  I had a great time with it when I did subscribe \u2013 I just never got into group gaming with random folks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is pretty damn impressive that the World of Warcraft (WoW) subscriber base is currently at 11.5 million. Meanwhile, Activision Blizzard\u2019s most recent World of Warcraft subscriber figures revealed 11.5 million users are signed up to the game, with those located in the US paying USD 15 a month to play online. That &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/02\/wow-pushes-towards-the-12-million-mark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WoW pushes towards the 12 million mark.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,60],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-pc","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}