World of Warcraft is an MMORPG with 10 million subscribers
worldwide. I think it’s hard for people to grasp how huge that is in the MMO
world. A really successful MMO might have 1 to 2 million active subscribers. At
this number, they are playing in the big leagues. And WoW blows these major
games (with humongous budgets to match) out of the water.
So if you can grasp how massive the reach of this game
really is, it would make sense that World of Warcraft tends to reach beyond the
confines of just the game. There’s a board game and a card game (many of the
cards are based on players who are either famous or infamous). There’s also a
highly entertaining episode of South Park that parodies the lives of the boys
as they play WoW.
These days, the rumor mill is reporting that Blizzard is going
to make a World of Warcraft movie. Sadly, that’s about all fans know at this
point. They did approach one director, who was already booked. And that’s
literally the only tidbit I’ve been able to dig up thus far. So if this movie
does indeed come out, it seems like 2014 would be the earliest we might see it
(which is after the apocalypse…so who knows).
I also read a news article about a guy who stabbed his
neighbor after the neighbor told him WoW was “just a game”. Evidently, the
neighbor was trying to calm the overly agitated gamer who was yelling at guild
mates on his headset. WoW is serious business, y’all.
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