WoW Fastest Selling PC Game Ever

[TechZ]

Blizzard Entertainment sent out a press release announcing that World of Warcraft has broken day-one sales records in North America, making it the most successful PC game launch ever. World of Warcraft, the companys subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), sold through to over 240,000 customers at retailers in North America on Tuesday, November 23, selling more in its first 24 hours than any other PC game in history.

In addition to shattering sales records, World of Warcraft also broke peak concurrency and account creation records for a MMORPG. Within the first day, over 200,000 players created World of Warcraft accounts. By 5:00 p.m. PST, over 100,000 were playing the game concurrently. These two record-breaking numbers made World of Warcraft the fastest-growing MMORPG in history. Within a single day, all original 40+ World of Warcraft servers were filled to capacity, and by the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, more than 40 additional servers were deployed to meet the rapidly growing player base, as the number of new accounts and concurrent users continued to grow.

[Lost]

Blizzard Entertainment sent out a press release announcing that World of Warcraft has broken day-one sales records in North America, making it the most successful PC game launch ever. World of Warcraft, the companys subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), sold through to over 240,000 customers at retailers in North America on Tuesday, November 23, selling more in its first 24 hours than any other PC game in history.

In addition to shattering sales records, World of Warcraft also broke peak concurrency and account creation records for a MMORPG. Within the first day, over 200,000 players created World of Warcraft accounts. By 5:00 p.m. PST, over 100,000 were playing the game concurrently. These two record-breaking numbers made World of Warcraft the fastest-growing MMORPG in history. Within a single day, all original 40+ World of Warcraft servers were filled to capacity, and by the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, more than 40 additional servers were deployed to meet the rapidly growing player base, as the number of new accounts and concurrent users continued to grow.

Wow!I'm happy for em they created a great game that people actually wanted to play,even more people than Blizzard expected it seems,isn't that what all creator's strive for. Kudos blizzard.

[Radical Dreamer]

And I still wont pay to play it every month

[TechZ]

I hate it too RD, i mean paying for the game should be enough, but having to pay monthly, it gets too much for some people, i could never afford it, they could allow alternative ways to play the game online so people who dont want to pay can still get to have fun.

[Camaro80z]

They need to have players pay for it every month to pay the salaries of the techs and programmers that keep the servers up 24/7, add new content and fix errors in the game. They also have to pay the GM's that are on the servers at all times making sure there is no problems. They worked for 2 days straight through thanksgiving to get the additional servers up and running. I have played other games online, and it would not have been handled as smoothly or quickly.

As for paying for it every month, it is the same as buying 1 less game every 3 months. How many games are there that you are playing 3 months after you buy it?


Just my .02

[silencio]

I balanced the monthly fee by cutting out out some cable programming. How much TV can I watch anyway when I spend this much time gaming?

[thirdfey]

I tried planetside which was a pay to play. I was disgusted when they released an expansion pack for the game which required you to buy the expansion in order to be able to complete the original objectives in the game. I'm satisfied with CounterStrike and Joint Ops for now.

[meatwad]

I balanced the monthly fee by cutting out out some cable programming. How much TV can I watch anyway when I spend this much time gaming?

Ditching CoH probably helped.

[WebHead]

There is a monthly fee associated with more and more entertainment items these days.

- gaming
- cable tv
- satellite radio
- internet

And the list goes on. All these little $10-15 and upwards of $50-$100 of monthly fees do add up. Where will it ever end! It's definitely a good money making strategy though for the companies that offer these services. And I will happily pay the makers of CoH $15 a month, and all the other entertainment stuff if it means moving money through the U.S. economy to keep it going. As long as there is value for the money I spend,.. I'm ok with it. It's all about the value of what you get in return for your dollar.

[WebHead]

Ditching CoH probably helped.

Did you cancel it?

[silencio]

Yep. And I still haven't given away my millions of influence

[WebHead]

Yep. And I still haven't given away my millions of influence

How come you quit? Are you having eye issues too?

[silencio]

No eye issues. Only have time for one game and there's no reason to spend money on two.

[Stalemate]

Yep. And I still haven't given away my millions of influence

I could help you with that.