The company said the World of Warcraft development team will not be affected.
Blizzard had an additional 1.2 million gamers who received a free copy of the game for subscribing to the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.
No game so far has been able to compete with the World of Warcraft monthly payment model with anything remotely approaching the same number of players.
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When the World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria came out, Salvatore dipped back into the game again, but the thought of leveling up a new character was simply too daunting.
Indeed, virtual networks like Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia and the World of Warcraft seem to offer as good clues as any to why this 32 year-old man should decide one day to blow up and shoot as many fellow Norwegians as he could.
The size of the team working on the game is now close to the size of the team working on World of Warcraft (more than 140 employees), a sign that project development is in full swing.
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It is 50 times the size of World of Warcraft and 30 times the size of Second Life at their biggest.
Former Starbucks CIO Stephen Gillet is the most prominent example of someone who attributes part of his career success to the management skills he learned as Guild Master in the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
Containing familiar aspects of Magic: The Gathering and World of Warcraft TCG, Shadow Era continues to remain relevant from digital beginnings.
"I'm kind of a geek and play the online MMO World of Warcraft with my sister and her husband, and we always talk about how cool it would be to go there, " she says.
"Blizzard really created the model for how to do this successfully and effectively, making sure the community of 'World of Warcraft' players has incredible influence on the future of the product, " Kotick said.
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Book of Heroes is the perfect choice for World of Warcraft or other MMO players looking for a mobile option during the holiday season.
The long awaited World of Warcraft patch 5.2 is here, the Thunder King patch!
Unlike other multiplayer online games like the hugely popular World of Warcraft, which is split into smaller groups, the thousands of EVE players are in it together.
Still, the latest expansion to World of Warcraft is perhaps the most cartoony, kid-friendly installment yet.
With the name so closely resembling that of World of Warcraft, we wanted to discuss the title of the mod with the developer, and as part of our routine procedure, we contacted YouTube to request the video be removed while that discussion took place.
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Bushnell's website was also compromised, with links to blog posts about the multiplayer games World of Warcraft and Diablo 3.
If your loved one is more into orcs, guilds and dragons, the latest title to the popular "World of Warcraft" franchise, "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, " might make a good gift.
Following the example of World of Warcraft, which features collaborative, user-generated environments, we could create a Universe of Physics, where students work as teams to learn science principles by developing a mission to Mars.
As Activision Blizzard prepares to release the Mists of Pandaria expansion for World of Warcraft, academic Ladan Cockshut wonders what it means for the future of the game.
The company was quick to say that World of Warcraft is still the number one paid MMO in the land, but at just over 8M players, it has fallen steeply from 2010 when it had 12M.
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Remember, this was also before the massive success of World of Warcraft.
The thing is girls want the same games that all the guys want like World of Warcraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
There appears to be a new trend making its way through the MMO ranks in order to boost subscription and compete with the behemoth that is World of Warcraft.
We'd also point out that MMOs aren't typically the most stable of sectors in the game industry -- outside of Blizzard juggernaut World of Warcraft, few are competitive if at all successful -- and playing one through OnLive would mean paying both for an OnLive subscription and a game subscription.
The two-dimensional world of the Web is rapidly going 3-D with immersive applications such as Google Earth and World of Warcraft.
He disappears again, and then we find him in the uber-popular video game World of Warcraft.
Currently, there is no direct connection between World of Warcraft and the Hearthstone game.
We are not going after the kind of mass audience that World of Warcraft caters to.
Activision Blizzard says the number of subscribers to its World of Warcraft online video game has stabilised.
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