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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:only 100,000? by Slime-dogg · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:Torrent-style downloading. by Fr05t · · Score: 4, Informative

    "downloading the patches" - They do.. it's call the Blizzard Updater