by Allison Robert 
Oct 22nd 2010 at 2:31PM
BlizzCon 2010 is upon us! WoW Insider has all the latest news and information. We're bringing you liveblogging of the WoW panels, interviews with WoW celebrities and attendees and of course, lots of pictures of people in costumes. It's all here at WoW Insider!Filed under: News items, BlizzCon
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Love Is In the Air | 2/2 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Normal and Heroic open | 2/3 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 2/8 - 2/15 |
| Blackrock Foundry Mythic opens | 2/10 |
| Lunar Festival | 2/16 - 3/2 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 1 opens | 2/17 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 2 opens | 2/24 |
| Darkmoon Faire | 3/1 - 3/8 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 3 opens | 3/10 |
| Blackrock Foundry LFR wing 4 opens | 3/24 |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
laina Oct 22nd 2010 2:38PM
What was the genius Star Wars joke?
Ves Oct 22nd 2010 2:43PM
When Blizzard was founded cellphones were big. Now they are small.
When Blizzard was founded there were three good Star Wars movies. Now there are still three.
It was hilarious.
Eternauta Oct 22nd 2010 2:53PM
I disagree. Revenge of the Sith was a very good movie in my opinion.
Episode I and II... meh.
Fun fact: I actually fell asleep on the cinema while watching Episode I for the first time. Seriously.
Daynthebold Oct 22nd 2010 3:06PM
I concur. Revenge of the Sith was pretty good. Now if only they'd used the opening crawl to do exposition for the first two ...
Sleutel Oct 22nd 2010 7:05PM
Star Wars prequels? Good? I know someone who begs to differ.
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett.html
Pwnzoar Oct 22nd 2010 9:54PM
I liked all of them....
Johnny fisticuffs Oct 22nd 2010 2:38PM
(some fraction of 489k) x 10
plus
(remaining fraction of 489k) x 25
over simplified, but you get the idea. he didn't say 489,000 players have killed Arthas.
Allison Robert Oct 22nd 2010 2:40PM
Ack, you're right. I fixed up the post and plead tab madness!
Josin Oct 22nd 2010 2:42PM
An excellent point. Even if it was all 10-man kills, that's still almost 5 million people who've seen Arthas die, if you don't count repeat kills.
Kuro Oct 22nd 2010 3:06PM
Wow Progress worldwide numbers are likely the best soruce of data we can extrapolate for percentage of population completing the fights.
I would assume the percentage is the number of guilds in wow progress that have beaten the conten. The would be some duplication in the numbers -- people have toons in multiple guilds, guilds that had folded and started up under a new name would be counted for twice, etc...
The Lich King (25): 10567 (12.55%)
H: The Lich King (25): 653 (0.78%)
The Lich King (10): 36215 (43.02%)
H: The Lich King (10): 2818 (3.35%)
razion Oct 22nd 2010 2:41PM
While the number seems small (at best, one in twenty-four active subscribers killed the Lich King), it is a far cry from the days where even less than 1% of the player-base even *saw* end-game content, let alone completed it.
Crazyates Oct 22nd 2010 2:42PM
As someone who got 11/12 before I got addicted to lvling my mage....
This totally makes sense. This proves that while everyone has access to 90% of the content, only the true raiders will make it all the way to the end.
12 million players... but he's only been killed just shy of half a million times. Taking for account repeat visits...that's not even 4% of the playerbase!
Crazyates Oct 22nd 2010 2:45PM
Woops see Johnny's post above me. half a million kills (and a minimum of 10 ppl per kill) means a whole lot more than 4% have killed him.
Nina Katarina Oct 22nd 2010 2:57PM
Well, three of them were me. I've got a guildie who has multiple kingslayer alts, and has been in on multiple kills. Still, there are a significant number of accounts who can turn on hardmodes.
kaminari Oct 22nd 2010 3:02PM
exept now you're couting repeat kills, which could be 7 times a week for 50 people (2 25 groups and 5 10 group) without counting alts, it'd be interesting if they released the number of charachters who have killed him and the number of acounts
Vagrant Zero Oct 22nd 2010 5:34PM
About 6 Million of those 12 Million didn't have access to Arthas for the vast majority of that, China only got access to WotLK on August 31st. Less than 2 months.
Aidan Oct 22nd 2010 2:43PM
Arthas has apparently been killed a grand total of 489,000 times. We were surprised to hear that; with a player base of 12 million now
Well, that's the number of kills, nut number of players participating in a kill. Actually, it's very, very close to 1 kill for every 25 players. So actually those numbers do allow for the possibility that every single player has killed Arthas once in a 25 man raid, with a few kills left over for some people to have done it twice.
Of course, that's not the reality, but the numbers don't rule it out.
The two numbers are interesting and suggestive; but, by themselves, they give us limited information about what percentage of the playing population is able to have a shot at the biggest and baddest encounters.
Aidan Oct 22nd 2010 2:46PM
Note: Original post changed, removing context for my comments.
Allison Robert Oct 22nd 2010 2:55PM
Doesn't make you any less right, though! I'd love to see exactly how many players are sitting on a Kingslayer title; achievement trackers seem to give a rough estimate at best.
busuan Oct 22nd 2010 2:44PM
Most PuGs collapse after Saurfang...
Most raiding guilds only recruit non-n00bs.
Most small guilds are too small to do serious raids.
With current WoW culture, the majority of 12mil subscribers will never see Arthas; they want to see him now but they can't, and they can see him at lvl85 but then they won't want to.
Raids with final bosses like C'thun, Kel'thuzad, Illidan, Kil'Jaeden, Yogg'Saron and Arthas are straight-into-syndication-market products. They are the deepest content that most people don't have patience or time for. I hope Blizz have realized that by now.
If it can be changed or if it should be changed is another matter.