world of warcraft

The game forementioned has 9 million+ players. It is a RPG, role playing game, and has many fascinating aspects to it. There have been episodes done by South Park, the Simpsons, and even Family Guy portraying their characters in gameplay and the effects of them playing a game similar, or in South Parks episode they play the actual game. There is definitely hype behind this game, good and bad. many people play, therefore many people enjoy the game. There is a $15 a month fee for different aspects of the game like maintenence, patches for problems, etc. So in essence along with the original purchase of the game, 9 million+ players are paying $15 a month for this game, giving them a grand total of 135 million dollars each month. That's a heck of alot of money. So it's definitely understandable why people are so fixed on either hyping up the game or putting it down as a horrible addiction and a game that is ruining our culture.

As many of the articles from before have shown there is a definite difference in opinion on this game. Many companies are actually thriving on the fact that this game is in existence, along with other games they service, world of warcraft is probably their largest amount of customers. I am of course talking about the businesses that sell gold and sell power leveling. So is this game a bad thing to those companies and those peoples lives?