stackyFACTSAt the height of the Lich King expansion in 2010, World of Warcraft boasted 12 million monthly subscribers. To put that absurd number in perspective, if Azeroth were a nation, its population of people willingly paying $15 a month to click on boars would be larger than the entire population of Greece or Ohio.
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