WoW - 10 Million Subscribers

[Vixen]

Just as a direct (if tiny) point on this. There is now a system of tokens (random drops from mobs) that allow you to get your raid pots free so long as you have rep with certain factions
The pots are the 2 hour flasks so free rather than ~35g you would pay for a normal one. Only work in the full-instance 25mans tho (so not gruul or magtheridon)

The unstable flasks for blades edge/gruul aren't exactly expensive either though. A group of 5 people together can do the event and get enough flasks for a months worth of gruul raids for the whole guild if they've been doing daily quests.

 

[Tombstone]

also people are saying that 5.5 million of them are korean gold farmers.. how many of the korean mmo's have farmers of the like?!

I'm not an expert on the gold buying market, but to be honest I wouldnt be surprised if the purely asian based MMOs dont have as high a percentage of farmers as the global MMOs. Reason being that as far as I can tell, the vast majority of people who buy gold/accounts/items in MMOs tend to be westerners who cant be bothered to get the stuff themselves but have expendable finances at their disposal. Even the few videos I have watched of farmers and how their industry works have the people involved saying that they mostly sell to westerners (US in particular)