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This post seems to interchange between referencing WoW and Blizzard's "gaming operations" a few times. I assume gaming operations would include Battle.net.

Is the data here strictly about WoW? I'm just curious...

EDIT: The linked Gamasutra article clarified it. These stats are for WoW only.

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I can't imagine battle.net is very big anymore...

Apparently WoW is now part of Battle.net:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle.net#World_of_Warcraft

Yes, they recently required that all accounts switch over to Battle.net (the cutoff date was sometime early november, after a months notice).

The public reasoning about it is so users can use the same email/password combination for WoW as well as the other upcoming Blizzard games like Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, and whatever their new IP next-gen MMO ends up becoming. The private reasons one can only guess, but I would assume at least that they can do stat tracking much easier with the new system.

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