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$100m a year is clearly crazy money, but it's not quite at the scale of WoW yet.

World of Warcraft subscribers have been declining steadily for the last couple years [1], but they still have ~9.1 million subscribers.

The least a subscriber can pay is by buying in 6-month increments, which is 12.99 a month [2].

So, even though they're making less money than ever, 9.1 million subscribers at 12.99 per month is 1.4 Billion a year.

[1] http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/02/world-of-warcraft-los... [2] http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/payment-option-credi...



9,100,000 * 12.99 == 118,209,000

So, unless my math's off, I think that's pretty close.




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