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WoW: Lich King hits 4m copies sold
WoW: Lich King hits 4m copies sold
GamesInudstry - December 23, 2008
Submitted by deftangel (291) at 7:08AM PST on December 23, 2008
As WoW hits 11.5m subscribers, Blizzard revealed that sales of the second World of Warcraft expansion have surpassed 4m almost 6 weeks from launch.
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1deftangel posted on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) at 7:18AM PST on December 23, 2008. RE: WoW: Lich King hits 4m copies sold@deftangel,
The keen eyed among you will notice I'm short of this stock. Right now we are predicting sales of the expansion to total over 1m more than the current active subscriber base. It is of course not impossible for the subscriber base to extend beyond 12.5m but even so, we're then expecting EVERY current WoW subscriber to pick up this expansion.
We've also heard nothing of sales on the first expansion, The Burning Crusade. Had it broken a big number, like 10m I think we'd have heard something about it. So I think sales of the first expansion are shy of 10m (though certainly in that ball park, 9m or so)
This has just gotten over 4m, are we actually expecting it's going to sell THREE times that amount over it's life time?
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11deftangel posted on World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC) at 7:08AM PST on December 23, 2008. Article: WoW: Lich King hits 4m copies sold
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Precisely what i was thinking when i saw the price, i am wary of going short on a monster such as WoW but i think i might take up a small position.