From Gamespot.com:

WOW: 8 million served

World’s top MMORPG proves even more popular, hitting McDonald’s-esque milestone more than two years after its release.

Currently, the population of Earth is estimated to be around 6.7 billion people. As of this week, roughly 0.1 percent of the sum of modern humanity plays World of Warcraft. Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced that more than 8 million people subscribe to the massive massively multiplayer online role-playing game, setting a new milestone for the title more than two years after its fall 2004 release.

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That’s one hell of a lot of Nerds.

Not to mention fights with spouses, widening asses, pale mushy kids, missed days at work, atrophied muscles, decline in deodorant sales, increase in mountain dew sales, hardening of the arteries and so on.

And thus it begins…  (The Zombie revolution)…