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World of Warcraft Players Complete 16 Million Quests – Per Day!

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Blizzard has never been shy about its penchant for numbers ending in –llion, but this probably shouldn’t be possible.
 
During a GDC panel last week, Blizzard designer Jeffery Kaplan claimed that WoW players tear into 16 million quests per day, as though possessed by some deep-seated, primal need for collection of tiny animal innards.
 
Since July 2009, Blizzard’s favorite fans have completed a grand total of 8,570,222,426 quests. Hemet Nesingwary must be a very happy man.
 
We’re going to go lie down now. Numbers shouldn’t be that large. It just isn’t natural.

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avatarA favor

Just wondering - since according to the article, it's post-July 2009, could you guys let me know the winning lottery numbers for the next few months?  Much appreciated.

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avatarWOW

Now if only i spent all that time doing something that makes money!?!? Your doing it worng!!!

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avatar /gasp

That's gotta be something in the magnitude of 4 million+ man-hours a day! I wonder what could be done with that sort of time. Hmmm let me think... never mind, gotta go do some dailies.

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avatarit isn't even july yet.....

it isn't even july yet.....

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avatarand that's just the north

and that's just the north american numbers, they didnt include the rest of the world

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avatarErr Wtf?

"Since July 2009, Blizzard’s favorite fans have completed a grand total of 8,570,222,426 quests. Hemet Nesingwary must be a very happy man."

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avatarHemet Nesingwary is a

Hemet Nesingwary is a character found while questing in Azeroth. There's even a quest called "Where in the world is Hemet Nesingwary" if i'm not mistaken.

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12521 the quest.

http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12521 the NPC dwarf.

I don't like Microsoft, I just associate with it.

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avatarClearly...

He has a working flux capacitor.

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