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12,000,000

12,000,000 -- paying subscribers for World of Warcraft (2013)

Name: Paying Subscribers Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-28

2013 · Blizzard Entertainment

At its peak, World of Warcraft had approximately 12 million paying subscribers.

Historical peak figure ('at its height')

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Last verified: 2026-09-28 · How we verify data →

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Value

12,000,000

Unit

Count

Data Vintage

2013

Entity

World of Warcraft

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Extraction

Source Trust

Citation Chain

Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

Blizzard Entertainment Primary Tier B

http://americanlivewire.com/2013-12-09-12-9-2014-nsa-spying-on-gamers/ ↗

Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2013 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

NSA Spying on Gamers? Gamers Beware Your Fantasy Game Playing May Be under Surveillance

Original Research

Blizzard Entertainment · Original study ↗

Methodology

Company-reported subscriber figure cited by AP; peak subscriber count

Methodology documented

Segmentation

Industrymarketing

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World of Warcraft: 12,000,000 paying subscribers. Source: Blizzard Entertainment (2013). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/world-of-warcraft-subscribers-12-million

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