Blizzard says World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has broken the day-one sales record to become the fastest-selling PC game ever in North America and Europe, with a worldwide total of nearly 2.4 million copies sold in the first day of release.
"The Burning Crusade has already exceeded even our most ambitious expectations," said Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment.
"We're pleased that so many players are eager to see all of the new content that the expansion has to offer, and we look forward to seeing everyone online as additional players continue to upgrade in the days ahead."
Retailers are coming up trumps too: "The immediate popularity of The Burning Crusade once again shows that Blizzard consistently delivers what gamers want," said Robert McKenzie, a suit at GameStop. "In addition to setting a new day-one PC-game sales record at our GameStop and EB Games stores, the expansion garnered more online pre-orders than any other PC game in our company's history."
Yeah. All 2.4 million of them started up Blood Elf Paladins, too
Yeah, it's crazy the amount of people rolling Palanoobs. I'd say 9/10 of the other players I see are Pallys.
I'm one of those people that bought it in the first 24 hours. Great sales for Blizzard. With it's built-in audience of 8 Million worldwide, the Burning Crusade was always going to be a huge success, but not necessarily this quickly... them's crazy numbers. I wonder how many they're clocked at now, over a week later.
sigh...i dont enjoy seeing these massive sales numbers. It just reminds how many great games didnt sell at all. More copies of Barbie Pet Rescue were sold then Deus Ex.
sigh...i dont enjoy seeing these massive sales numbers. It just reminds how many great games didnt sell at all. More copies of Barbie Pet Rescue were sold then Deus Ex.
Yeah, casual games' sells are in the sky while great games with depth are nowhere near that... But publshers want quick money and I don't think that'll change soon.
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But publshers want quick money and I don't think that'll change soon. 
