World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King officially bigger

News Portal · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 8:54 am

Well, now we know. Blizzard have officially announced that World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King is the fastest-selling PC game of all time, chalking up more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability.

If you were curious, the record didn't have to move very far - the former fastest-selling game was of course 2.4 million copies of the first expansion, The Burning Crusade, back in January 2007.

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stanna · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 9:11 am

i still havnt played world of warcraft. i like the outdoors

>XaartaX< · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 9:27 am

Fastest selling yes. Also wins the award for fastest finished MMO expansion.

Snootle · **Joined:** 8 Sep 08, 5:07 pm **Posts:** 728

What is appealing about WoW that makes everyone play and play for so long?? I find it boring that the I got told to kill 10 boars and that my character just auto attacks really slowly. Yay for trials and: First Person Shooters for the win, in my opinion.

Mr_Cyberpunk · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 10:06 am

>XaartaX< wrote:

Fastest selling yes. Also wins the award for fastest finished MMO expansion.

bwahahaha. content longevity fail.

BradCube · **Joined:** 18 May 05, 8:46 pm **Posts:** 221

Slight typo

"know we know" should be "now we know"

EDIT: All fixed up

echo · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 11:40 am

Snootle wrote:

What is appealing about WoW that makes everyone play and play for so long?? I find it boring that the I got told to kill 10 boars and that my character just auto attacks really slowly. Yay for trials and: First Person Shooters for the win, in my opinion.

wow is about playing with friends (well, that seems to be what keeps most people playing)

Ivan · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 12:33 pm

Bet they counting how many they SHIPPED not how many are sold ... cause if you see a copy in the shop ... that's MINUS ONE.
Berlin wall has 39 in stock ... 2,799,961 if you include unsold copies just one in shop in adelaide.

Shaolin$alesman · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 12:48 pm

Snootle wrote:

What is appealing about WoW that makes everyone play and play for so long?? I find it boring that the I got told to kill 10 boars and that my character just auto attacks really slowly. Yay for trials and: First Person Shooters for the win, in my opinion.

after 8 years of doing de_dust or office in CS I would of figure people would not be able to stand the sight of them either.. but each to their own

Mekon · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 12:59 pm

Ivan wrote:

Bet they counting how many they SHIPPED not how many are sold ... cause if you see a copy in the shop ... that's MINUS ONE.
Berlin wall has 39 in stock ... 2,799,961 if you include unsold copies just one in shop in adelaide.

Why would they ? Because it's a subscription based game, users need to enter their WOTLK key before they can play the new content - querying their account servers for upgraded subs would be a trivial undertaking.

RogerTheIncredible · **Posted:** 21 Nov 08, 1:46 pm

Mekon wrote:

Ivan wrote:

Bet they counting how many they SHIPPED not how many are sold ... cause if you see a copy in the shop ... that's MINUS ONE.
Berlin wall has 39 in stock ... 2,799,961 if you include unsold copies just one in shop in adelaide.

Why would they ? Because it's a subscription based game, users need to enter their WOTLK key before they can play the new content - querying their account servers for upgraded subs would be a trivial undertaking.

Because from a marketing standpoint (it's PR/marketing that puts our these press releases) 2.8 millions sounds better than a rough number of exactly how many people have upgraded their account. It's common practice for publishers/developers to quote the number of stock shipped as number sold. They get away with it cause technically they did sell that number... To suppliers/retailers...

blaze · **Joined:** 29 Jun 03, 7:06 pm **Posts:** 49

What a relief, was worried blizzard might have been in trouble with the financial crisis.

Krogan · **Joined:** 25 Sep 07, 8:35 pm **Posts:** 227

I am curious why people continue to say biggest mmo etc its the biggest game of all time without any question. I mean one of the biggest evening magazines in Sweden Aftonbladet were doing a day to day count down to Wotlk release.

Sure maybe CoD4 sold 14 million copies last year but how many of those play CoD4 now? I don't actually play WoW myself anymore but I fail to see why people don't give Blizzard and WoW the credit they deserve. Can the talk about biggest mmo etc just be honest and call it was it is. The biggest game of all time without any question at all.

From a single game Blizzard makes more money then EA's game put together.

Bronze_D · **Posted:** 22 Nov 08, 12:13 am

i am more confused on what the heck are u defending it from?

and for that matter why does it need to be defended?

you are the weirder folk here if you ask me.
and why the hell on earth do you quote CoD4 sold record? did you even read what the previous poster was actually posting?

skooby · **Posted:** 22 Nov 08, 7:33 pm

Krogan wrote:

I am curious why people continue to say biggest mmo etc its the biggest game of all time without any question.

Because that would be an incorrect statement. The biggest game is Super Mario Bros in terms of numbers shipped. On the PC, The Sims has had the most copies shipped. Blizzard apparently go by subscriptions which can bloat numbers somewhat against numbers shipped because many people have multiple accounts.

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