Blizzard announced today that the online MMO phenomenon has passed the milestone of six million subscribers world-wide. Now let's consider that for a second.

The sovereign MMO nation of WoW has actually surpassed the populations of a few small countries. It's currently only slightly less populated than the federal republic Switzerland, and the Jewish state of Israel. But more populous than the constitutional monarchy of Denmark, and the Kingdom of Norway. Haha what?

I wonder if people are examining the cultural implications of that. A small game studio in California currently governs an online nation. A nation whose inhabitants pays a monthly tax to stay there and interact with others. Pretty awesome really.

Oh, and Blizzard also announced they're releasing the game in Spanish.

Six Miiillion players [Blizzard]

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