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09-21-2009, 11:41 PM
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#1 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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| World of Warcraft's (WoW) astounding numbers......
With about 12 million subscribers, chart-topping sales and enough pop culture cred to warrant both an Emmy-winning turn in South Park and shout-outs from William Shatner and Ozzy Osbourne, we knew World of Warcraft was big.
But during a game conference in Austin covered by Gamasutra, the game's developers dropped some stats that make it out to be, well, really, really big.
To operate a game as massive as Warcraft, Blizzard employs over 4,600 staffers and uses 20,000 computer systems, 75,000 CPU cores and a staggering 1.3 petabytes (that's over 1 billion MBs) of storage. And you thought your 32 GB iPhone was cool.
The game itself, when viewed from The Matrix, would take up about 5.5 million lines of code, made even safer by the fact that the QA crew has flattened over 180,000 bugs If you were actually wandering around in Azeroth, you could find over 1.5 million art assets, from wall torches to wheels of cheese, and would have the opportunity to chat up 40,000 NPCs (non-player characters). They could then dole out 7,650 quests, which you could complete using a handful of the game's 70,000 spells.
The craziest stat of all? In the five years since World of Warcraft launched, players have earned a McDonald's-threatening 4,449,680,399 in-game rewards.
Man, that's a lot of loot. http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/p...umbers/1355608 | 
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09-22-2009, 12:28 AM
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09-22-2009, 12:29 AM
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Aion will prevail!!!!
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09-22-2009, 12:58 AM
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#4 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by getalove Aion will prevail!!!! | no it won't.
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09-22-2009, 01:02 AM
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#5 | | 無敵
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^ Most likely true.
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09-22-2009, 01:06 AM
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#6 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Originally Posted by Jah Al Zawahiri The craziest stat of all? In the five years since World of Warcraft launched, players Still havent moved out of their parents basement nor seen daylight | edit
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09-22-2009, 01:21 AM
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#7 | | I'm better than you.
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Aion will be shitty.
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09-22-2009, 02:59 AM
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#8 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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ive never played whats so special about this game?
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09-22-2009, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by ws6ta ive never played whats so special about this game? | nothing really... its just a game that sucks up every hour of every day of your life if you get hooked. There is a maxx level to this game, but once you reached it then its all about items from there.
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09-22-2009, 07:31 AM
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#10 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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yeah nothing really special about this game. my brother and his friends play it all day. Pretty sad that some kids just sit on their comp all day and just play games.
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09-22-2009, 07:58 AM
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wonder how much moneys they are banking off that
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09-22-2009, 08:02 AM
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#12 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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so when is sc2 coming out anyways...its been almost a yr of delay already im getting sick of waiting
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09-22-2009, 08:09 AM
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#13 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by tonyvu nothing really... its just a game that sucks up every hour of every day of your life if you get hooked. There is a maxx level to this game, but once you reached it then its all about items from there. | That's not a warcraft problem. That's the video game culture problem. Remember how many kids died from Xbox?
*** There's the Halo kid that committed suicide
*** There's the kid who ran away from home and ended up dead when his parents took away his xbox.
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09-22-2009, 08:47 AM
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#14 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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Originally Posted by Noir That's not a warcraft problem. That's the video game culture problem. Remember how many kids died from Xbox?
*** There's the Halo kid that committed suicide
*** There's the kid who ran away from home and ended up dead when his parents took away his xbox. |
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09-22-2009, 08:57 AM
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#15 | | RS controls my life!
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Originally Posted by Noir That's not a warcraft problem. That's the video game culture problem. Remember how many kids died from Xbox?
*** There's the Halo kid that committed suicide
*** There's the kid who ran away from home and ended up dead when his parents took away his xbox. | not all video games just most... its like watching a movie vs watching a never ending sitcom...
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09-22-2009, 09:08 AM
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#16 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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really, there are 12 million no life morons playing this?
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09-22-2009, 09:44 AM
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#17 | | The RS Freebie guru
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I will proudly say I have never touched the game, and I never intend to...
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09-22-2009, 09:59 AM
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#18 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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I will not dare touch this game!!! I have friends who thought WoW was lame and tried the 10 free trial to see what all the hype was about. Now they are all addicted to this game and can't stop playing!!
Now when Diablo 3 comes out.... that's gonna be hard to resist!!
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09-22-2009, 10:02 AM
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#19 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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played this because i got it for a bday present. compared to WC3 and playing dota, i thought WoW was ridiculously time consuming and felt more like WORK than playing. this is the whole reason why i quit cuz it's just too boring and takes forever for any leveling up to happen.
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09-22-2009, 10:03 AM
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#20 | | I STILL don't get it
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09-22-2009, 10:04 AM
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#21 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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09-22-2009, 12:00 PM
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#22 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by ws6ta ive never played whats so special about this game? | dont play it. if you do, u'll prolly get hooked, spend all ur time playing, loose ur job, and loose all those nice cars of yours because of WoW!
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09-22-2009, 12:13 PM
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#23 | | My name is Michael. J. Caboose, and I hate BABIES!
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It's called self-restraint. If you don't have it, don't play. And the theory of "oh they live in their parents basement" isn't true, since I play and I'm sorry, but I live on my own, pay my own bills and have a life. So =p
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09-22-2009, 12:18 PM
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#24 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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counterstrike > wow
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09-22-2009, 12:29 PM
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#25 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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any game > wow
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