Blizzard Entertainment announced that World of Warcraft, their subscription based MMORPG now has 1.5 million paying customers in China, bringing the total number of WoW players worldwide to a mind blowing 3.5 million. President and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Morhaime expresses his understandable excitement at the impressive numbers, and explains how they never thought China would take to the game like this.
World of Warcraft's success in China has quickly exceeded our expectations, and seeing Chinese gamers respond so enthusiastically to the game has been extremely gratifying.
We thank the players for embracing World of Warcraft, our partner The9 for helping to make all of this possible, and the Chinese authorities for their support of Blizzard Entertainment.
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