WoW: The Burning Crusade Shatters Sales Records
Blogged in MMORPGs, Games by Matt on Tuesday January 23, 2007I’m not a fan of WoW at all, but to deny it the success it has had would be silly. The Burning Crusade, WoW’s first expansion pack came out last week, sold more then 1.2 million copies in the US alone in it’s first twenty-four hours.
Day-one sales totals on both continents were similar, with an estimated total of nearly 1.2 million copies sold on the first day in North America and an estimated total of more than 1.1 million copies sold in Europe within the first 24 hours of launch(a). By the end of the first day of availability on both continents, a total of more than 1.7 million players had already logged in and upgraded World of Warcraft to play The Burning Crusade.
That’s the kind of sales that only EXCEPTIONAL albums sell, now take a video game that does that. Boy those Blizzard fan bois sure are rabid!
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070123/20070123005602.html
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One Response to “WoW: The Burning Crusade Shatters Sales Records”
January 26th, 2007 at 2:29 pm Quote
the success of WoW is obscene. I honest cannot blame Blizzard for putting out an expansion that really doesn’t deserve the price tag because if your game base is willing to show the kind of initial sales support that the Burning Crusade has then why the hell not.
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