WoW: WoTLK. Awarded Fastest Selling Game of All Time!

[Obama]

As most of us have predicted. This monster of an expansion has fulfilled its duties and sold over 2.8 MILLION copies on its first day! Making WotLK the fastest selling PC game of all time! This is surely a record Blizzard Entertainment should be proud of. The previous record being held by Blizzard's expansion, The Burning Crusade.

The day of this world changing release, the game was shipped to 5 countries. North America, Europe, Chile, Argentina, and Russia on November 13. THe following day Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand released their version. South Korea and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on November 18 finished up the release.

Thousands of game stores participated in the release of the game. Over 15,000 stores had their doors open on midnight and some were accomponied by blizzard employees to sign copies and get to know their players.

"After a single day of availability, Wrath of the Lich King is already the bestselling PC game of 2008 at GameStop and ranks as one of our top-selling products so far this year," said Bob McKenzie, GameStop's senior vice president of merchandising. "In keeping with the tradition established by their previous releases, Blizzard Entertainment has again created a product that not only reflects their high standards of quality but is clearly an instant hit with gamers around the country."

Discussion Topics:
-Did you participate in any midnight launch parties?
-Do you think WotLK is a positive or negative for atracting new players to with a 80$ price tag for a battlechest?

[Stans Dad]

Obviously won't attract new players. But, it will keep existing customers around for a long time!

[Blackboy0]

Wow, 2.8 million copies on the first day :O GJ Blizz!!

No, I didn't attend any midnight launch parties, I just got WotLK like 2 days ago
Not sure...

[Kubiatsu]

Isn't WotLK technically a expansion and not a game? As you can't actually play without the original game.

[Popc0rn]

yea its an expansion but its still considered a game.

[Igzz]

Yes, expansions. It is considered a game because there is almost the same amount of content as in the actual game .

[Jadd]

The expansion killed it!!!

[Innit]

Before World of Warcraft came along, the record was held by Diablo 2.

Gj blizz.

[Aes]

Yes i did go to a midnight launch. In Australia, Melbrourne.
Positive, New areas, new items, new class. prices will come down because of two exp'.

[Blackboy0]

lol, Blizzard's just been killin' the record's of the PC world :P

[PewPewNao]

The problem with wow is that it can ruin your life/make yourself a nerd or lose friends

[Matt]

2.8 million copies in 24 hours.

[Gripen2]

LOL...Great job Blizzard.

[BrantX]

One word to explain Wrath of The Lich King. Epic.

[Loveshock]

Wotlk definitely exceeded my expectations. It's way better than the Burning Crusade expansion and I gotta say that Blizz did a great job on this one.