Actually I play both EQ and WoW. When Blizzard released it's subscriber count, they were only counting active subscriptions (paid either by credit card or game card) and those accounts on the 30 day free trial that comes with the game. The were not counting the canceled or expired accounts or the ones that were on the 10 day guest pass that comes with each retail box now. So 4 million worldwide sounds about right.
The game is amazingly fun. I call WoW my fun game and EQ my work game. I'm a die-hard EQ player, have played it since release (my guild killed Xegony for the first time last night, go us
), but I really enjoy WoW for the solo content, the graphics I absolutely love, they're gorgeous, and the fact that I can pop in for 30 minutes, finish up a quest (*gasp* what's that you ask?) and log out.
I can now have the best of both worlds, my raiding, progressive one and my fun kick around one. Isn't life grand?