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World of Warcraft hits 8 million subscribers, servers set to melt on the 16th

World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment today announced that worldwide subscriptions to it’s monster MMORPG have surpassed the 8 million mark. A fitting announcement 1 week before their much anticipated expansion, Burning Crusade, which debuts on January 16th. Prediction: expect a global meltdown of servers as users attempt logging into Blizzard servers all at one time. Have fun!