100 Million INCLUDING Trial accounts, so cut the number in half please, I hate inflated numbers and Blizzard could have NOT included trial accounts very easily, but it would have been no where near 100 Million or as impressive.
Next time they should tally up all the hours spent playing by all the characters of all the NONE trial accounts. I can contribute at least 3 weeks of game time spread across 5 characters, but that's nothing compared to one of my friends who has twice that on a single character. And then compare that to how long it would take to build an Egyptian pyramid.
To humor myself, The Great Pyramid of Giza took two shifts of 100,000 men working around the clock for 20 years. 100,000 x 24 x 365 x 20 = 1.752 x 10 to the power of 10 hours, or 730 Million days of labour. So take Blizzards over inflated 100 Mil, cut it roughly in half to get a more likely figure of actual paid accounts of 50 Million. 730 / 50 = just 14.6 Days which falls into my play time... That being said, if the average play time per account exceeds 14.6 days then the players of wow could have built a Pyramid in the same time period that WoW has been out. Funny
Not funny is going on the WoW forums to see if there's any kind of Average and seeing people with over 180 days of game time on single characters... 6 months wasted and you have nothing to show for it other than how big of a loser you are, fantastic.