Ahead of the release of the anticipated expansion, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade (due January 16), developer Blizzard has announced that the number of WoW players worldwide has exceeded eight million.
China is the region with the largest amount of players (3.5 million), followed by North America with more than 2M and Europe with over 1.5M.
The rest of the base of players are located in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.