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WoW Dethroned as Largest Gaming Community

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World of Warcraft is popularly known as the largest gaming community in the world having gained an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records when it reached 10 million subscribers. Rob Pardo announced...
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ico92 - 128 days 6 hours ago
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i never thought i would see that in a million years
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JsonHenry - 127 days 15 hours ago
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Hell, Maplestory has more users than WoW..
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Thugbot187 - 127 days 8 hours ago
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So basically Blizzard loses its title to its self. Wow that’s one drawback of the internet any idiot with a website can spread their retardation as news.
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dreamtheater87 - 128 days 6 hours ago
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Sooo... Sorry Blizzard you no longer have the largest gaming community with WoW, but congrats on having the largest gaming community with Battlenet! Anyway I'm not sure about this, Battlenet seems more like a service where WoW really is a community.
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 128 days 6 hours ago
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3 - Um...
Multiple games service versus ONE GAME?!

Not cool.
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mal_tez92 - 127 days 15 hours ago
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That is VERY stupid.

Doesn't PSN have over 20 million users?

And I imagine a lot more people use steam. So by using this websites logic, steam beats WoW.
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Broncos98 - 128 days 6 hours ago
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must be a slow news day
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Biphter - 128 days 5 hours ago
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5 - If thats the case
Then PSN wins the crown? I don't get this article, surely it should be comparing single games, not whole services like battle.net and Xbox Live?
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MajestieBeast - 128 days 4 hours ago
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ye then lets get steam community in 2
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Senden - 128 days 1 hour ago
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7 - wrong
This article is kind of wrong.. WoW hasn't been dethroned... WoW accounts are now getting merged with battlenet accounts so technically, a large proportion of those battlenet accounts include WoW accounts.
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Sprud - 128 days 1 hour ago
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What nonsense journalism. One can use a battle.net account to play WoW.
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Domer25 - 127 days 22 hours ago
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I agree with above; this is nonsense.
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No FanS Land - 127 days 22 hours ago
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10 - something kinda wrong
Has anyone noticed the number of xboxlive subscribers?

Either I need explanation, but the number should be higher than only 8million, shouldn'it?

Maybe it's only including gold or silver members.
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Karum - 127 days 21 hours ago
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It's likely just gold subscribers, with silver it has close to 20 million I think but no point quoting that number of there are millions that don't game online.
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AcesAndEights - 127 days 21 hours ago
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If Battle.net counts, Habbo Hotel counts, and that has over 100 Million players. So, erm, well done Battle.net I guess...
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Tanny92225 - 127 days 19 hours ago
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12 - PSN?
Wouldn't PSN have the record then? Coulda sworn it had somethin like 27 million registered users. (might have been 24 million, cant remember). Sony should really jump on this opportunity lol.
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12.1 Pootangpie | 127 days 19 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Guwapo77 - 127 days 18 hours ago
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I believe this is for paid subscriptions. There are larger free gaming communities like Yahoo games. They wouldn't qualify nor would the PSN as it's free.

As for the author of this article...he should had done his research. Battle.net is Blizzard and WoW users can tie their accounts to Battle.net if they want. Currently not mandatory, but as hard as they have been pushing WoW users to join it,I see manadatory happening in the future.
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NeoSprtacus - 127 days 16 hours ago
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Battle.net is also free. It doesn't make sense for battle.net and WoW to be separated as such and then say it's only for paid subscriptions.

I think what we've come across is a misinformed, confused article,
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what it could be, is that it is the total number of players, over a month or so, who access their accounts and play or whatever.
Battle.net - 12 mil
WoW - 11.5 mil
ACTIVE XboxLive - 8 mil
ACTIVE PSN - ?
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Guwapo77 - 126 days 2 hours ago
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I do see what your saying as Battle.net is free to join. I'm not sure and my only theory now is that with it's paying WoW users the author didn't seperate the two. It's doesn't cost anything to play Warcraft 3 or Starcraft on there... I'm at a lose trying to figure this poorly written article out.
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Tanny92225 - 125 days 12 hours ago
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12.5 - Pootangpie - How many fanboys like does it take to look at the facts?
Heres a quote from sony's live blog of their press conference last week

"17:56 Jem Alexander:

Andrew House is now talking about the PSN. We have 27 million PSN users worldwide (11 million in SCEE territories). 560 million global downloads."

And just like the article says, xbox live has 8 million. Great job turning what i said into fuel for the flame war.
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thehitman - 127 days 16 hours ago
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13 - Well...
bnet is a community regardless if its compiled of different games sc/wc/diablo > wow.
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The Round Peg - 127 days 16 hours ago
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14 - Doesn't Blizzard own BOTH World of Warcraft and BattleNet??
So Blizzard is still number one. Stupid article.
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grayscare0 - 127 days 14 hours ago
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Why did I just waste a few minutes of my life reading this crap? This should not be front page news.
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iPirates - 127 days 13 hours ago
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16 - Why did this get approved...
Not only are they merging anyway, soon making battle net "not free", but they're owned by the same company. Retarded.

@Pootangpie - nobody really knows what the actual figures of "active" psn users are, so stop talking like you know something the rest of the world doesn't.

Oh yeah, and I didn't realize the various gaming communites were split up into Steam, Live, then PSN decidedly "dead last". Why don't you enlighten us with how you figured that one out..
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Hercules - 127 days 9 hours ago
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17 - wow
so a website over a game? doesnt Wow and battle.net go hand in hand? and i thoughtthe 360 had 17 million users like the PSN had...
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LeonSKennedy4Life - 127 days 8 hours ago
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I'm glad you all agree with me...but uh...bubbles would be nice. Lols.
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