World of Warcraft

Blizzard has announced that second of World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King racked up 2.8 million sales worldwide in its first 24 hours on release.

This makes it the fastest-selling PC game ever released. It also keeps the title in the family; the previous record-holder was first WOW expansion The Burning Crusade, which managed 2.4 million in one day in January last year.

Most of those 2.8 million sales will have come from North America and Europe, although Lich King benefited from the addition of Chile, Argentina and Russia to Blizzard's domain. Australasia and south-east Asia got the expansion a day or two later, and China's still waiting.

World of Warcraft has 11 million players worldwide now, versus the 8 million it had when Burning Crusade launched - so in terms of sell-through to subscribers, Lich King performed fractionally less well than its predecessor.

The 3.5 million copies Burning Crusade sold in its first month will be the next of its own records Blizzard is looking to beat. One analyst has predicted that Lich King could net 5 million in the same period, according to Gamasutra.

hehe you beat me too it!

but here's two of the new commercials for wow!

www.youtube.com/watch     ozzy's

www.youtube.com/watch    steve van zandt

lol so much for all the haters and doomsayers.  Another top job done by Blizzard.

thats all? with 12 million players they only sold 2.8 million?

seriously I think that 12 million sub statement by blizzard is bullshit.

Think about it who the hell plays wow without all the Xpacs?

Anyway grats to blizzard on the Xpac, but i still think the sub number is fabricated to make them look good.

Originally posted by metalhead980

thats all? with 12 million players they only sold 2.8 million?

seriously I think that 12 million sub statement by blizzard is bullshit.

Think about it who the hell plays wow without all the Xpacs?

Anyway grats to blizzard on the Xpac, but i still think the sub number is fabricated to make them look good.

2.8 million during the first 24 hours, they don't say how much they sold so far.

This is verry good.

Originally posted by weaseltje

Originally posted by metalhead980

thats all? with 12 million players they only sold 2.8 million?

seriously I think that 12 million sub statement by blizzard is bullshit.

Think about it who the hell plays wow without all the Xpacs?

Anyway grats to blizzard on the Xpac, but i still think the sub number is fabricated to make them look good.

 

2.8 million during the first 24 hours, they don't say how much they sold so far.

This is verry good.

We will see, If WotLK doesnt equal the WoW playerbase in sales i call the sub number every fanboi waves in front of a non-WoW players face bullshit.

Originally posted by metalhead980

Originally posted by weaseltje

Originally posted by metalhead980

thats all? with 12 million players they only sold 2.8 million?

seriously I think that 12 million sub statement by blizzard is bullshit.

Think about it who the hell plays wow without all the Xpacs?

Anyway grats to blizzard on the Xpac, but i still think the sub number is fabricated to make them look good.

 

2.8 million during the first 24 hours, they don't say how much they sold so far.

This is verry good.

 

We will see, If WotLK doesnt equal the WoW playerbase in sales i call the sub number every fanboi waves in front of a non-WoW players face bullshit.

I actually have a few friends who are playing without the recent xpac. They dont have a high enough character to benefit from anything in the xpac so why  get it when you dont need it?

Well that 2.8mil + is the hardcore OMG I gotta have this and get to lvl 80 and see everything before anyone else first crowd.  There are millions of casuals that aren't ready to jump into Lich King right away. 

I'm kinda in that crowd as a more hardcore/casual, meaning I can put a ton of time into the game but I don't have to be first to see stuff and would rather wait on the mad rush to spread out so I'm not fighting over mobs in the first quest areas...if ya know what I mean!

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Originally posted by Khrymson
Well that 2.8mil + is the hardcore OMG I gotta have this and get to lvl 80 and see everything before anyone else first crowd.  There are millions of casuals that aren't ready to jump into Lich King right away. 
I'm kinda in that crowd as a more hardcore/casual, meaning I can put a ton of time into the game but I don't have to be first to see stuff and would rather wait on the mad rush to spread out so I'm not fighting over mobs in the first quest areas...if ya know what I mean!

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Hmm..Millions of people that hasn't reached the endgame !! In a game that is now 4+ years old , unless these are somewhat new players then I do not buy this statement at all...

Most people that plays a game and likes it also buys the expansion heads on, atleast in the guilds I have been in there has ALWAYS been a 99% ratio..

As the above poster states, the figures should be very close to the 11 million mark or there simply isn't that many subscribers..

Atleast 8-9 mil should have bought the expansion the first 24 hours..

All my friends that still play and enjoys WoW has bought the expansion on release, this is a 100 % ratio, althou this is a small fraction of the game it still tells me something..