World of Warcraft

Originally posted by Lence

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.

Im sure its been said but Ill say it again. Its not the fastest selling PC game, Its may be the fastest selling expansion.  I wouldn't concider WOTLK a game all buy its self cuz  you cant go out and buy it and play it without having the others installed so its not really a game, its just part of one.   Not to rain on anyones parade or anything, Its is impressive though that it sold that many in that amount of time.  

Lich King 2.8 mill in 24 hours is pretty impressive and still many more will buy the expansion.

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.

Thats because it is BS and it is fabricated..Remember they posted a story about a guy who has 36 accounts all Shamans? Yeah they count each of those as a different subscription even though its 1 person playing all 36..and who knows how many more people have multiple accounts...The majority of their alleged subs come from EU...

Most of those people, not all, but most of them are gold and power leveling accounts..Blizz counts them as actual subs... WOW sub numbers if you leave out multiple accounts, gold/powerleveling accounts is somewhere around 6 maybe 7 million...

Yes I agree with you the number is fabricated..just look at all the nerfing they did of the game..Lowered the xp needed to level..lowered the HP elite bosses have...made it easier to kill Elite bosses..Recruit a fruit program..all of these things point to serious issues that the game has..No one in their right mind would take a so called successful game and change it that drastically if they weren't worried about something..

LOL 2.8 million and they have *cough**cough* 12 million subs...thats nothing to cheer about. I have seen lots of copies (around 50) sitting stacked on tables in Best Buy, End shelves in Wal Mart... and in Gamestop..The game sold less than TBC and that if people felt TBC was garbage...give it some time with wotlk when people level cap to 80 and have nothing to do for the next 3 years, but run 4 year old BG's and arena's day in an day out..

Yes, the game is obviously dying

Originally posted by woody1974

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.

 

Thats because it is BS and it is fabricated..Remember they posted a story about a guy who has 36 accounts all Shamans? Yeah they count each of those as a different subscription even though its 1 person playing all 36..and who knows how many more people have multiple accounts...The majority of their alleged subs come from EU...

Most of those people, not all, but most of them are gold and power leveling accounts..Blizz counts them as actual subs... WOW sub numbers if you leave out multiple accounts, gold/powerleveling accounts is somewhere around 6 maybe 7 million...

Yes I agree with you the number is fabricated..just look at all the nerfing they did of the game..Lowered the xp needed to level..lowered the HP elite bosses have...made it easier to kill Elite bosses..Recruit a fruit program..all of these things point to serious issues that the game has..No one in their right mind would take a so called successful game and change it that drastically if they weren't worried about something..

LOL 2.8 million and they have *cough**cough* 12 million subs...thats nothing to cheer about. I have seen lots of copies (around 50) sitting stacked on tables in Best Buy, End shelves in Wal Mart... and in Gamestop..The game sold less than TBC and that if people felt TBC was garbage...give it some time with wotlk when people level cap to 80 and have nothing to do for the next 3 years, but run 4 year old BG's and arena's day in an day out..

people like this crack me up.   You do realize the 2.8M copies it sold is only for NA and EU.   So 2.8M out of about 6M.    That means 50% of players bought the expansion..... wait for it..... ON THE FIRST DAY!!!.    Yes, if in 3 months,   only 50% of players have bought the expansion.. that might not be so good.  But we are talking about 'fanatic' people here.  We are talking about people who went out and bought the expansion as soon as it was available.

Another thing to remember.. In the 3 months before the expansion..  WOW vanilla was still on the best selling list.  Which means there are probably a substantial number of players who aren't even ready for Wrath yet.

So tell me about your game?  is it Warhammer with it's merging servers and box sales ranked at number 468 on sales charts?  Or is it AOC? (lol).   If WOW's sales are so abysmal, what game is doing good?

LMAO @ the never relenting WoW-haters.

Imagine if an expansion for <insert-so-much-superior-than-WoW-MMO-here> expansion hit 2.8 million in 24 hours. We'd never heard the end of it. And of course, none of the arguments that apply here would be valid.

Gotta love WoW-hater hypocrisy.

Originally posted by Lence

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.

who cares how many copies a game sells, that doesn't make it a good game, just a well marketed one.

Originally posted by Zayne3145

LMAO @ the never relenting WoW-haters.

Imagine if an expansion for <insert-so-much-superior-than-WoW-MMO-here> expansion hit 2.8 million in 24 hours. We'd never heard the end of it. And of course, none of the arguments that apply here would be valid.

Gotta love WoW-hater hypocrisy.

gotta love the wow fanboi when all he can say about wow is how many people play it. I think most of you just play it because its popular.

speaking of wow graphics, how do their graphics rate compared to other mmorpg's out there with what being the best and worst with wow at what rank?  I was thinking the beta and alpha aion or global agenda might take the cake as far as mmorpgs go... did WotLK add or change anything visually or in system requirements?