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[Kaotik]

As of the 11th of january: 8 million active subscribers... times €10/month, that's comparable to selling 1-2 million copies every month. Plus of course the game itself which is sold in more than 10 million copies.

Plus the expansion that is coming this week.

Cheers

Cheers, remembered wrong on the active subscribers it seems. If you per month it's 13€, not 10, though.

Not everyone pays that much though, I believe a lot of Asian countries are priced rather differently and generally cheaper.

In China & Korea (where I believe most of asia connects to, unless they use european servers or oceanic servers) there's a whole different payment scheme, and the thing isn't even handled by Blizzard but a third party company, which also handles the servers.
There, you actually pay for hours you play, and don't even need to buy the game itself, just the account key (due so big portion of people playing at internet cafes and not owning their own computers) and then they buy "time credits"

 

[Gubbi]

Still, WoW is a license to print money

Cheers