It keeps going and going…

While it’s pace may have slowed down slightly, World of Warcraft has now hit 11M subscribers.  It is astonishing to me that after several years and several very well-hyped competitors that WoW continues to dominate like this.  Even though I don’t play it any more, Blizzard deserves enormous credit for somehow continually creating enough new content to keep old subscribers interested and new subscribers signing up.

Supposedly, Blizzard is creating another MMO now that is unrelated to WoW, but I’m guessing that it’s still at least 2-3 years away, as I imagine it’s going to take awhile before the number of WoW subscribers actually starts to decrease instead of increase, even if it’s normal pace of 1M per 6 months doesn’t quite continue (it took about 10 months this time).