{"id":292437,"date":"2024-12-02T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=344945"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:40:29","slug":"in-their-day-they-laughed-at-the-idea-of-world-of-warcraft-earning-a-million-dollars-a-month-they-werent-exactly-visionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/in-their-day-they-laughed-at-the-idea-of-world-of-warcraft-earning-a-million-dollars-a-month-they-werent-exactly-visionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"In their day, they laughed at the idea of World of Warcraft earning a million dollars a month. They weren't exactly visionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alright, alright: earning a million dollars monthly with a video game is not, as of today, something novel<\/strong> nor is it going to be groundbreaking for anyone. But let’s go back to November 2004, when World Of Warcraft hit the shelves proposing a monthly fee to enjoy the online game. Back then, its biggest rival was EverQuest, and no one could imagine how far Blizzard would go in expanding Azeroth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to Bo Bell, who worked on the development of World Of Warcraft, at first they didn’t even dream of reaching the level of EverQuest, which was earning $500,000 in subscriptions each month. “We would say things like we could see ourselves beating it, reaching 800,000. Or how about a million? We laughed a lot at that<\/strong>, but we all thought it might actually happen”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World of Warcraft not only gained a million almost from the first day, but just a few months after its launch, at the beginning of 2005, it was earning 15 million each month with more than a million registered users. Now, on its twentieth anniversary, they are more than consolidated as the leaders of the MMORPG<\/strong> and with no intention of stepping down from the throne, with more than 7 million subscribers. Quite something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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