Yep, World of Warcraft (WoW) has surpassed New York City in terms of population. It’s reached a subscriber base of 9 million.
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has reached a new milestone, with a player base now totaling more than 9 million subscribers worldwide. The company is currently working with its partner for World of Warcraft in China, The9, to prepare the game’s first expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade™, for launch in mainland China and anticipates an influx of new and returning subscribers in conjunction with that event. Source: Blizzard Press Release
And yes, one of my friends sent me a 10-day free trial key … so it looks like I might be getting sucked into the abyss of WoW as well … interestingly, if you go to the U.S. Census Bureau webpage that estimates world population and type in 2007, you will see that 9 million will place WoW as a country (really, though, it’s a world, right?) at 89, just behind Sweden and above Haiti. 
