Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment is indisputably making money hand-over-fist with its massively popular online RPG, World of Warcraft. But surely maintaining a game with some 10 million active subscribers worldwide takes a serious bite out of profits? Not so, according to Blizzard o wow gold wowmine n its Analyst Day conference call on Tuesday.

The game maker said it has spent only $200m (~ £ cheap wow gold 110.24m) on upkeep since the game launched in 2004. That $200m figure apparently includes payroll for the entire staff, hardware support, and customer ser wow powerleveling  vice. The news comes care of gaming blog Kotaku While Blizzard doesn't say exactly how much it makes off WoW, let's try to put that into some perspective. Blizzard estimates the game has over 10 million subscribers worldwide.

Rates depend on the wow powerleveling   region, and things like free guest passes and discounts make things tricky. But let's use a conservative three quarters of that figure to play around with - 7,500,000 users paying month-to-month - and let's say their m wow gold thsale onthly subscription rate is $15 (the US rate wow gold ).