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DarkEpyon

Nov 25 2004, 11:09 PM

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IRVINE, Calif. - November 24, 2004 - Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that World of Warcraft® has become an instant success, achieving epic sales figures in less than 24 hours. Launched Tuesday, November 23rd, the company's subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sold-through to consumers an estimated 250,000* copies of the game. At retailers across the country, players lined up for blocks at midnight to purchase the game, which sold out in many stores nationwide after only one day on store shelves.

In just the first day alone, over 200,000 players created World of Warcraft accounts, and over 100,000 were already playing the game concurrently as of 5:00 p.m. PST on Tuesday. The account-creation and concurrent-user populations are both record numbers for a MMORPG on its first day of launch, making World of Warcraft the fastest-growing online game in history. World of Warcraft is expected to continue to shatter records and achieve a record-setting week-one population in the days ahead. With dozens of World of Warcraft servers already filled to capacity, Blizzard is deploying additional servers rapidly to match the growing player base.

"We had a lot of confidence in World of Warcraft, but the success on day one far exceeded our expectations," said Mike Morhaime, president of Blizzard Entertainment. "We are extremely happy that players are enjoying our game, and we are doing everything we can to meet the demand and maintain a fun and smooth game experience for everyone playing."

Retailers across North America, including Wal-Mart, EB, GameStop, and others are reporting that hundreds of their stores have sold out of World of Warcraft due to the demand. If consumers have not yet purchased their copy of World of Warcraft, they are advised to call ahead to make sure their store has copies still in stock.

"World of Warcraft has once again shown that Blizzard consistently delivers the best games in the industry," said Robert McKenzie, vice president of merchandising at GameStop. "It sold better than any other PC game this year - in fact, World of Warcraft enjoyed the best day-one sell-through GameStop has ever seen on a PC title!"

Blizzard Entertainment and its retail partners are expecting all remaining supplies of World of Warcraft to sell out soon. Meanwhile, the company is working diligently to increase server capacity to accommodate the growing number of players connecting to the game. As the additional servers are brought online and proven stable, additional copies of World of Warcraft will be made available at retail. Blizzard will announce the availability of those additional games as soon as they are on retail shelves.

Taken from Allakhazam.

Go Blizzard! Looks like they've hit mega paydirt. This should be enough to turn the heads of SOE and Squeenix no doubt.

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-Albert Einstein

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Dive View Member Profile	Nov 29 2004, 06:21 PM Post #2
Apocalypse Tribe Radio Group: Dark Templar Posts: 1824 Joined: 10-December 02 Member No.: 1	I agree that Stormrage is pretty crowded, but aside from the queue, having a lot of people around is a good thing. Bryn and I have characters on Hellscream as well, due to Stormrage being down a few times last weekend, and it was pretty desolate. The beauty of this game however, is the fact that you can have characters on many servers, and it feels like a different game when you go from Humans in Azeroth to Tauren in Kalimdor. You need to break free of the FFXI mindset, where it was only viable to have one main character. You may as well at least make a character on Stormrage. Try a different race/class, I bet you would find it interesting.

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DarkEpyon Wow for WoW Nov 25 2004, 11:09 PM

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SaitoH QUOTE (Oddies da Nerfed @ Nov 26 2004, 01:08 AM) H... Nov 26 2004, 08:53 AM

Dive I agree with SaitoH, so maybe the world will be ea... Nov 26 2004, 10:00 AM

Ellianna mine mine mine! had to get it, the urge got me... Nov 26 2004, 08:40 PM

Mute QUOTE (Ellianna @ Nov 26 2004, 10:40 PM) mine mine... Nov 27 2004, 01:44 AM

Ellianna noooo *pouts* come over heeeere ;/ i have a friend... Nov 27 2004, 06:48 AM

Ellianna not going to be able to switch :/ cant transfer ch... Nov 28 2004, 10:11 PM

DarkEpyon Hey, at least levelling isn't anywhere near as... Nov 28 2004, 10:39 PM

Azrael I'm starting to feel somewhat interested in tr... Nov 28 2004, 11:57 PM

Ellianna how busy is stormrage, i was looking for it on the... Nov 29 2004, 06:15 AM

Mute QUOTE (Ellianna @ Nov 29 2004, 08:15 AM) how busy ... Nov 29 2004, 05:01 PM

Dive I agree that Stormrage is pretty crowded, but asid... Nov 29 2004, 06:21 PM

Sheik both of my brothers are on the BoneChew server I b... Nov 29 2004, 08:24 PM

Ellianna finally found the server hehe i made Ellianna on t... Nov 29 2004, 08:53 PM

Zorya I was thinking about playing WoW until school star... Nov 29 2004, 08:55 PM

SaitoH QUOTE (Dive @ Nov 29 2004, 06:21 PM) I agree that ... Nov 29 2004, 09:07 PM

Azrael I've read around that you can actually solo in... Nov 29 2004, 09:07 PM

Dive QUOTE (SaitoH @ Nov 29 2004, 09:07 PM) You playing... Nov 29 2004, 09:12 PM

Zorya Maybe I should just wait for Middle Earth Online. ... Nov 29 2004, 09:14 PM

Bryn QUOTE (Zorya @ Nov 29 2004, 08:55 PM) Can any... Nov 29 2004, 09:28 PM

SaitoH Bryn answered everything, but I'll add my 2 ce... Nov 29 2004, 09:43 PM

Zorya Thanks Bryn! I may go pick it up tonight. :] Nov 29 2004, 09:45 PM

Sheik QUOTE (Bryn @ Nov 29 2004, 07:28 PM)Do I lose... Nov 29 2004, 10:48 PM

Azrael This is making it harder for me. I love FFXI, but ... Nov 30 2004, 10:30 AM

Mute I've been res'd by the Soul Healer and onl... Nov 30 2004, 12:43 PM

Azrael Well, I can say I will be getting WoW. Thanks to t... Nov 30 2004, 04:19 PM

Riel Cool Azrael....looking forward to seeing you on Wo... Nov 30 2004, 05:20 PM

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