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Only a few people?

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It's my turn to be the akshually guy:

We don't know exactly how many people ever played WoW once but a decently educated guess with the 2014 report of 100 million accounts (11 years ago but no official 200 million report yet which I definitely think they'd do), with the hype slowing down since then and subtracting bots which who knows how many there have been in total over the 20 year lifespan I'd say around 150 million "real" people entered azeroth for at least a couple hours.

The thing is, even 150 million players is only around 1,8% of the earths population which you could jokingly say is only a few people in the grand scheme of things.

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2014 report of 100 million accounts

Do you have a source for this? I thought wow peaked at 12 mil subs....

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Blizzard reported that themselves but here is a polygon article from 2014 Blizzard reaches 100M lifetime World of Warcraft accounts | Polygon

And well uh.. accounts created aren't subscribers active at the same time, obviously.

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