WoW hits 3.5 Million.

[Murgos]

China is the most populated country in the world and 1.5 million people is probably like 5,000 people here.

Nice one.  I think I need to go home and have a lie down.

[Roac]

America and Japan are now niche markets.

I think every single other MMOG would kill - I mean contract murder for hire - to get the 'niche' numbers that WoW is getting.  But yeah, sucks for the US :(

[Murgos]

China is the most populated country in the world and 1.5 million people is probably like 5,000 people here.

Nice one.  I think I need to go home and have a lie down.

Seriously, this thing is reverberating in my head like that Lews Black skit about the IHOP conversation.

I really can not grasp what could cause this guy to make that sort of correlation.  "If not for my horse I wouldn't of spent that year in college."  "1.5 million people in China are only like 5000 people in the US."

[HaemishM]

You better get a handle on that before you have an aneurysm.

And yes, America is a niche market, it's just taken this long for American companies to realize it. There's a reason NCSoft is doing so well that it can afford to fund so many developments. SOE? Pfffffft, they are pikers compared to the motherfuckers coming out of Asia or able to penetrate Asia. Korea and the Pacific Rim scoffed at EQ1.