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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. You ain't kidding by jayhawk88 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tuesday night they had freaking wait lines just to join certain servers. The starting newb zones were a crush.

  2. What about the other 50,000? by SammyJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Were they just waiting for the servers to come back online? ;)

  3. Re:Blizzard one of the few left.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not surprising the launch is going so well.
    - Launch going well? You have a very weird definition of "well". 5 minutes to loot a corpse is not "well". 20 min wait on 700+ queue is not "well". Regular server reboots is not "well".

    Blizzard grossly underestimated the number of people that will buy the game, also their database architecture is pure crap. Plugging many servers on the same database is just asking for trouble. Especially with 200k+ accounts.

  4. Play WOW for free here! by darylp · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.leagueofpirates.com/sirvival/queuedance .html

  5. Re:Blizzard one of the few left.... by The+Evil+Couch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe he means going well, by the perspective of the guys raking in the cash.

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  6. only 100,000? by darkmayo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So what happened from open beta where they where stating they had 500,000 signups and for the most part (with less servers) had very little problems (I only recall a few times where there was a queue to get into a server but that was when other servers were down)

    Now they have more servers but the queues are really bad to get into alot of them.. what happened, did the open beta numbers of people playing online at one time never hit 100,000?

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

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

  8. Not surprising in the least by couch_potato · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why am I not surprised? I played in the open beta, and it was, hands down, the most impressive MMORPG that I've played, ever.

    Everything in the game smacked of polish, polish, polish. Making a character was super-easy, pretty, and fun to do. From there, getting into the game is a snap, and your first mission is placed right in front of your face. I barely had time to experience any of the multi-player aspect of the game before the beta was over, because I was so busy doing missions.

    As I'm sure you've heard by now, it's hard to feel like you're on a level treadmill in this game. The mission system gives the game the feel of a single-player RPG, and the amount of polish/smoothness that Blizzard put in helps retain that feel, but you can't ignore all of those other players running around killing. Despite the hordes of beta-testers, I never once had to wait for a spawn or do any 'spawn-camping' or anything mind-numbing of that sort.

    All in all, a great game, and I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't have any other priorities (job, family, politics, etc), because once you start playing, all of those other not-so-important things in your life (like eating, bathing, and face-to-face socializing) will suddenly not be so important anymore.

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