World of Warcraft

WoW hits 1 million concurrent users in China.

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by Zyuu

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World of Warcraft's Chinese operator, The9 Limited, announced today that concurrent users had recently peaked at one million. Whichever way you look at this statistic, it's interesting. How many of those "players" are farmers? How many are legit fans?

Since WoW's launch in China in June 2005 the concurrent user count hasn't peaked like this. Why now? Burning Crusade launched In September 2007 in China. We'll leave the wondering to you, dear reader. We just post the news.

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  • the_helix said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    Very interesting.

    Any stats on what faction, level, class, etc is popular in China?

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  • jb100r said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    How is 'concurrent' users defined?

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  • Mathias_Jerick said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    Since concurrent means existing at the same time, I assume it means 1 million players in China active at the same time.

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  • Mathias_Jerick said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    I wouldn't doubt a large portion of those are gold-sellers, in the last couple of weeks I've noticed a lot more of them.

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  • Cyan8313 said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    Why would there be a lot of farmers on china servers ? Isn't the market better for US/EU considering average income per capita etc.

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  • arloyola said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    That comment about farmers is .... Is like wondering how many players un USA uses bots.

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  • Zyuu said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    Sadly a lot of people take advantage of chinese people to do labor work such as gold farming. It doesn't work the same way in the US (I hope at least!).

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  • nihouma said 
    Sat, Apr 12 2008 4:19 AM ()

    Remember, people playing in China can only interact with people playing in China. If there are gold farmers in the Chinese WoW, they can only give gold to people who have a Chinese subscription. Likewise, the increase in gold farmers on EU/US servers has nothing to do with the increase of the legit player base in China.

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