World of Warcraft hits 10 million players

Jan 23

Ben KingInternet, Play , , , 1 Comment

So Blizzard must be delighted, WOW finally hits 10 million paying subscribers, is there no stopping it…

I find myself wondering why, after the initial excitement, the last expansion (The Burning Crusade) took a lot of shine off the game.

The unrelenting need to grind for rep and better items eventually takes its toll and to add to that our guild, Go Rin No Sho, (www.gorinnosho.co.uk), despite having arguably some of the best and most committed players on our server (Bronzebeard) , we still struggle with the higher level content. The curve is just too steep, other than for people who really have no life whatsoever.

With the next expansion (World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack (PC)), still sometime away (Amazon are listing it as September 2008), it seems likely that some of us will get bored and fall away before then.

Having said that I still have 3 level 70 characters and another one on the way!  :)

Converting people to World of Warcraft… one co-worker at a time…

Aug 24

Ben KingPlay , 2 Comments

For the last year or so Steve C and I were the only WoW players at bit10, however we have seen a recent flurry of newcomers…

Through no particular effort by Steve and myself, Rob fell first, he in turn converted Craig and now Steph is going to give it a try!

In addition Rob has got 2 of his housemates playing it.

WoW is undoutably an awesome game, however with 6 million players worldwide and rising rapidly, but its ‘crack’ like ‘play for 5 minutes and you are hooked’ qualities are a little worrying!!