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World of Warcraft Reaching Record MMOG Sales
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."
I don't think that all of the open beta accounts were created at near the same time, nor were they all trying to get on-line all at the same time.
The DB is probably chugging to create the user accounts, but then you have close to 5,000 users in all the same area... it probably causes problems. Even in the stress test, I don't remember seeing more than 200 or 300 people in a newb zone.
Thank goodness that my copy isn't arriving until December.
You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
"downloading the patches" - They do.. it's call the Blizzard Updater
Anyone interested in passively promoting development of World of Warcraft on Linux through a petition can have a look at this site. With a Mac port already, they're more than halfway there.
Actually it is a Gwen Stefani solo projet song.
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Well, considering I just logged into a high population server with no queue and no loot lag, yeah I think it is going great. The problems have been mostly solved.
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However there are a couple of bugs, they're not that bad:
- Mouse cursor not visible in direct x mode, must use -opengl flag
- crashes when under roofs with minimap open in opengl mode: just close it when going under a roof.
- crashes when you die and leave your body in opengl mode: Don't die : )
If you get stuck inside a building with map open or in a cemetary after death you have to start it in normal mode (direct X, not opengl) move outside/reclaim body, then restart in open gl mode.Liberty.
FYI, for those in Europe the launch will be beginning on November 26th 2004.