World of Warcraft hits 8.5 million players

I know this isn't important news, but it could be in the near future. Word of Warcraft or WoW has hit 8.5 million users, thats bigger than some countries and definately bigger than most cities. What does this mean? Well the economic market is a big factor. A virtual economy is on the rise and well, its hard to figure out how to profit from the damn thing besides gold farming

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