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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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FunkySquirrel
April 02, 2009 at 12:48pm
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.
derek.h.osborne
April 02, 2009 at 5:35am
Now if only i spent all that time doing something that makes money!?!? Your doing it worng!!!
Leif52pickup
March 31, 2009 at 6:03pm
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.
chronium
March 31, 2009 at 4:59am
and that's just the north american numbers, they didnt include the rest of the world
FredIP
March 31, 2009 at 3:37am
"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."
AntiHero
March 31, 2009 at 9:29am
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.
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