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"Blizzard's publisher Vivendi is rolling in the cash-- they just announced their their quarter videogame numbers, and they're up a whopping 19%.  They claim that World in Conflict gave them a nice boost, but c'mon, do you know anyone who's played World in Conflict?  Didn't think so.No, the boost came from our favorite game, World of Warcraft-- Blizzard raised their subscriber numbers by just under a third of a million, making their population now 9.3 million, a raise of over a million in the past year.  Burning Crusade's release in China definitely helped, too, and Vivendi's games division raked in $315.2 million.Now, far be it from us to call a number like 9.3 million \"disappointing,\" but it doesn't seem like WoW will hit that 10 million mark we all expected in 2007.  Then again, patch 2.3 could bring a lot of folks back to the game-- is there a chance that .7 million people will sign back in, or will we have to wait for the next expansion to see a big boost?[Via Massively]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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