WoW Dethroned as Largest Gaming Community

Tr10wn6106d ago

Wii virtual console Dethrone PSN.

ico926106d ago

i never thought i would see that in a million years

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JsonHenry6106d ago

Hell, Maplestory has more users than WoW..

Thugbot1876106d ago

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.

dreamtheater876106d ago

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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LeonSKennedy4Life6106d ago

Multiple games service versus ONE GAME?!

Not cool.

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mal_tez926106d ago

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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Broncos986106d ago

must be a slow news day

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Biphter6106d ago

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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MajestieBeast6106d ago

ye then lets get steam community in 2

Senden6106d ago

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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Sprudling6106d ago

What nonsense journalism. One can use a battle.net account to play WoW.

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ZombieAutopsy6106d ago

WoW is a plague on the video gaming community....well its not that bad but still its not really that good.

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Mo0eY6106d ago

So, uhm, World of Warcraft was dethroned by Battle.net? AKA Both of Blizzard's property?

Why did this sh!t get approved?

Domer256106d ago

I agree with above; this is nonsense.

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No FanS Land6106d ago (Edited 6106d ago )

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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Karum6106d ago

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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AcesAndEights6106d ago

If Battle.net counts, Habbo Hotel counts, and that has over 100 Million players. So, erm, well done Battle.net I guess...

Tanny922256106d ago

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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Pootangpie6106d ago (Edited 6106d ago )

or steam for that matter heck steam has an even bigger community then live at the moment Steam is first in line where as xbox live takes 2nd Place and PSN coming in dead last

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Guwapo776106d ago

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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NeoSprtacus6106d ago

@12.2
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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Guwapo776104d ago

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.

Tanny922256104d ago

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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thehitman6106d ago

bnet is a community regardless if its compiled of different games sc/wc/diablo > wow.

ktchong6106d ago

So Blizzard is still number one. Stupid article.

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feejo6106d ago

AND IT'S FREE. See no reason to charge for xbox live, people don't know they pay for RROD.

grayscare06106d ago

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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iPirates6106d ago (Edited 6106d ago )

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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