Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets, believes that by the end of 2009, World of Warcraft will have picked up at least another million players around the world, in addition to the 10.9 million he says are already in the game. The launch of Wrath of the Lich King and the surge in popularity of the game in China will bring the game up to as much as 12 million players before the end of 2009.
Do you believe that? As so long as Blizzard remember key things like making an MMO like a console game; adding content while making mass changes to principles like classes every so few years to spice things up; it will continue to be hard for many to leave the game. World of Starcraft might tho and since both is owned by Blizzard that can only spell even MORE money since the sci-fi aspect has not been truly been tapped into thanks in large to the failure of SWG head of developers. Now is the time to bring out Starcraft for an MMO of Knights of the Republic does. To be a Jedi in a porper era? Better hurry Blizzard.
There's no question that WoW's population has slowed down lately -- the last time we heard an official update from Blizzard was way back in January, and while this analyst claims there are more nowadays, there's no question that things have plateaued for the moment. But maybe there are some more folks out there who haven't played yet, and maybe Wrath of the Lich King will bring them into the fold.
He also mentions Warhammer Online, as you might expect (isn't that pretty much a requirement anytime you talk about MMO populations these days?), but he's landed on the same conclusion both Blizzard, Mythic, and all of their players have already ended up at: WAR isn't really going to affect what WoW does, and vice versa. %26quot;Core WoW users,%26quot; apparently, have %26quot;limited interest%26quot; in the other big MMO out there at the moment.
I sure hope they add more servers, one million more subscribers isn't going to help the lag/disconnection issue any. By the way, we are a professional wow gold online store have been created for many years, we supply cheap wow gold for local customers.
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