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WOW Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players
WOW Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players
GameDaily - April 11, 2008
Submitted by lstormy10 (294) at 7:53PM PST on April 11, 2008
"The9 Limited announced today that World of Warcraft recently had a peak concurrency of one million players. The Chinese operator has been handling the Blizzard game in the China region since June 2005. This concurrency number is the highest since the game's original launch."
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3rikitikitik posted on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) at 1:29AM PST on April 15, 2008. RE: WOW Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players@Jamix012,
Well, it is possible to have an expansion sell more than the original. You can have new users, for instance.
On a side note, are we including digital distribution to the numbers that we have? If not, then there's another possible reason; WoW players who didn't buy the game retail who bought retail copies.
A more appropriate comparison would have been the first expansion numbers, which we are currently predicting to sell/have sold 10.79M.
VGChartz's accuracy issues aside, I would have to agree with you that an expansion selling more than a million over its base game is a bit screwy.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 288 ]bids
1Jamix012 posted on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) at 12:17AM PST on April 15, 2008. RE: WOW Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese PlayersWhy are PC games so overly priced? Sims 3 is ridculous and this is nearly as bad: According to VGchartz the original WOW has sold 9.19 million. According to this website an expansion pack is going to sell 2 million more than the original. Do you know how crazy that sounds?[ Lurker ] [ Level 15 ] [ Rank: 634 ]bids
20lstormy10 posted on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) at 7:53PM PST on April 11, 2008. Article: WOW Hits Record One Million Concurrent Chinese Players"The9 Limited announced today that World of Warcraft recently had a peak concurrency of one million players. The Chinese operator has been handling the Blizzard game in the China region since June 2005. This concurrency number is the highest since the game's original launch."[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]
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I've been out of the WoW "loop" for awhile but I'm pretty sure it has, or had, 10 million subscribers. If the numbers of people that resubscribe for this game are anything like for the Burning Crusade it won't be a huge stretch of the imagination for it to sell 11 million.
That being said, I don't think this one's gonna pull nearly as many toons out of retirement as BC did.