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	<title>Blast Magazine&#187; it&#8217;s huge</title>
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		<title>World of Warcraft by the numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Makuch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MMO takes up 1.3 Petrabytes of storage and has 70,000 spells!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>World of Warcraft, the massively multiplayer online game from Blizzard is a behemoth of a game. But <em>just</em> how huge is it?</p>
<p>During a keynote address at GDC Austin, Blizzard team members unveiled a host of numerical statistics concerning the game and the lengths the studio must go to to keep the game up and running on a day to day basis. Buckle up, because here we go!</p>
<ul>
<li>7,650 quests</li>
<li>70,000 spells</li>
<li>40,000 NPCs</li>
<li>1.5 million game assets</li>
<li>5.5 million lines of code</li>
<li>180,000 bugs swatted by the QA department</li>
<li>4,449,680,399 rewards unlocked</li>
<li>20,000 computer systems</li>
<li> 13,250 server blades</li>
<li> 75,000 CPU cores</li>
<li> 1.3 petabytes of storage</li>
<li>4,600 staffers</li>
<li>27 hours of music</li>
<li>360,000 text strings</li>
<li>2 million words</li>
<li>12,000,000 Battle.net accounts</li>
</ul>
<p>Anything on the list <em>really</em> jump out at you, besides everything?</p>
<p><a title="An Inside Look at the Universe of Warcraft" href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25307" target="_blank">An Inside Look at The Universe of Warcraft</a> @ Gamasutra via <a title="Kotaku" href="http://kotaku.com/5362009/the-numbers-of-warcraft" target="_blank">Kotaku</a></p>
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