Quote:
Originally Posted by Sassarai
Isn't WOW pretty popular in Asia?
"World of Warcraft was the best-selling PC game of 2005 and 2006. As of January 22, 2008, World of Warcraft has surpassed 10 million subscribers worldwide, with more than 2 million subscribers in Europe, more than 2.5 million in North America, and about 5.5 million in Asia."
|
That 5.5 million is probably mostly in the following countries with higher personal incomes and where credit card usage is commonplace: Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong.
The rest are stuck with Korean MMOs.
Here in the Philippines, WoW is known only to many, but only a few thousand with an international credit card actually have the privilege to play it.
The game's awesome and I would want to play it, but what puts off most to buy the game and foot the monthly bill to enjoy life within Azeroth is the local tendency to look for
freebies... and because of that, the firm which is supposed to act as the authorized WoW distributor for the Philippine market decided not to market the game here.
So the rest of the online game-playing population in the Philippines consists of those patronizing the usual Korean grinds, but because the installers are always free, there's free-to-play (and thus free-to-grief and free-to-be-rude-to-the-GMs), not to mention the freeloaders looking for some private server to crowd into.