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Posted on September 21, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: The scale of World of Warcraft is beyond massive

  • 5.5 million lines of code for the game, which is 1.3 petabytes in size (a petrabyte is a BILLION megabytes)
  • 4.4 billion in-game rewards have been handed out the game’s 12 million subscribers/shut-ins source

Posted by Ernie Smith • Permalink


 

4 Responses to The scale of World of Warcraft is beyond massive

  1. Name says:
    September 21, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Its actually Petabytes, not petrabytes. And Petabytes are a trillion megabytes.

  3. Name says:
    September 22, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Its actually Petabytes, not petrabytes. And Petabytes are a trillion megabytes.

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