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Wrath of the Lich King Sells Lots

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25th November 2008, 1:47pm
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Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft’s second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, sold more than 2.8 million copies in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. This eclipses the previous record of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in 24 hours, set in January 2007 by Blizzard’s first World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade. Wrath of the Lich King was simultaneously released in North America, Europe, Chile, Argentina, and Russia on November 13; Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand on November 14; and South Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on November 18.

In celebration of the launch, more than 15,000 stores throughout the world had their doors open at midnight to welcome thousands of expectant players. Several of these locations were attended by Blizzard Entertainment representatives, who met players and signed copies of the game.

“We’re grateful for the incredible support that players around the world have continued to show for World of Warcraft,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. Wrath of the Lich King contains some of the best content we’ve created for the game so far, and we look forward to seeing even more players log in to experience it in the days ahead.”

Prior to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft’s subscriber population had grown to more than 11 million players, further strengthening its position as the world’s most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. More information about the new expansion can be found at the official Wrath of the Lich King website.

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G-Train
Posted by G-Train 25/11/2008 7:51pm
“We’re grateful for the incredible support that players around the world have continued to show for World of Warcraft,” said Mike Morhaime ["Yet we still feel the need to ignore their concerns over class balancing and poor itemisation - We also have a pool going to see how long it takes before aussies quit because we still haven't given them a continental server."]

Abuse aside - Wrath really is alot better then BC. Great music, but better quest chains, improved spell detail and new special effects such as fog, heaps of new instances that don't take hours to finish, all in all, a great expansion.
Posted by karaoke 26/11/2008 7:52am
all in all, a great expansion.


I definitely have to agree 100% with that.  

Speaking of figures though,I came across this which I thought was pretty interesting ~


http://blog.gamerdna.com/blog/2008/11/21/wow-what-a-week/
Master Chief
Posted by Master Chief 26/11/2008 9:38am
The quests are definitely much better, they've learnt a lot from the patches they've been releasing since BC, such as ZA quests and the Isle.

I'm just doing a Sholazar Basin quest where you jump on the shoulder of a huge stone guy and bash the crap out of all these undead guys on a massive snow mountain simply called "The Avalanche". You have to kill 3-4 named 78 elites and also 200 of the small guys. It's nuts! I almost had it done when the server went down last night =)

Level 77 now, flying around is so much easier, and at just 1000g for cold weather, it didn't cut too much in to my budget.
G-Train
Posted by G-Train 26/11/2008 11:17am
Yeah, it was a good idea to restrict flying to 77. I'm sitting pretty with an epic flyer and 6k gold atm. lol - according to my stats in the achievement panel - like 70% of my income comes from auctions ^_^

When I reactivated my account 2 weeks before Wrath, I had a bank full of enchanting mats. 300 Greater Planar Essence at 18g a pop = moocho monies.