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World of Warcraft Reaching Record MMOG Sales

Posted by Zonk on from the go-dwarfs-go! dept.

Drac8 writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced that World of Warcraft has reached record sales in the first day, selling over 250,000 copies, and 200,000 accounts have been created. As of 5:00PM PST tuesday the game had over 100,000 people playing."

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  1. Re:You ain't kidding by flibuste · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Tuesday night they had freaking wait lines just to join certain servers.

    I wonder what is the ratio of whiners like you is in those 200K people who bought the game

  2. Re:Linux petition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    haha ur fuggin crazy if u think bliz is ever gonna port WoW to Linux...dream on, hippie

  3. Re:You ain't kidding by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ratio of people whining about the queues to people who bought the game?

    Probably about 160K(w):200K(p)

    That is to say 80% of the people who purchased are not pleased with the queues while 20% of the people who purchased don't care if they're treated like crap and have to wait 2 hours to get in the game only to be disconnected or crash so that they can wait for another 2 hours to try again.

    Of course this statistic, like any other, needs to be taken with a grain of salt since it is unscientific, based on an informal survey of WOW forums, and generally pulled out of my ass.