With the unprecedented international popularity of World of Warcaft (the game has 12 million+ subscribers worldwide), Blizzard is becoming quite PC gaming powerhouse.  This may be the reason that Blizzard has left the PC Gaming Alliance Group that it helped found over a year ago.  A look at the groups member’s page shows a missing Blizzard icon and a big blank spot in the rows of companies associated with PC Gaming Alliance. Gamespot spoke with president Randy Stude regarding the leave.

“The PC Gaming Alliance is an industry consortium that relies on membership dues to perform its research,” said Stude. “Membership turnover is a fact of life in any industry consortium, [and] particularly so in the current economy. Recently, a few members have decided they cannot justify the budget (membership and staff) required to maintain an active role in the PC Gaming Alliance at this time. However, we have also added several new members yielding a net gain for 2009.”

Blizzard has yet to respond as to why they have decided to leave the PCGA.

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