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""December 13, 2010 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™, the third expansion for the critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), sold through more than 3.3 million copies as of its first 24 hours of release*, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time. This milestone eclipses the previous record of more than 2.8 million copies sold in 24 hours, set in November 2008 by Blizzard's second World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King®.""
Pretty darn amazing.
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A blue has beaten you to it. ;-)
in before
lol thats not actually 3.3 million...thats just how many that were sent to stores, lol i'm an idiot! lololol
a take off from "lol thats not actually over 10 million active accounts lololol im an idiot too"
had to get those in before the trolls arrived
on a serious note...it was pretty obvious cataclysm was going to break sales records. Its a HUGE expansion, and a lot of people came back to WoW because of cataclysm. My whole work place (30 people) were coming back or already are back for Cataclysm, except 5 people don't play MMOs and are more of a FPS fans. So thats 25 people coming back just for that.
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no he is not, Wow hit the 11 million subscribers mark before WOTLK release
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Waiting on: GW2, BP
Twelve million subscribers but only sold 3.3 million so far. I know I am not horrible at math but......
Well you have to realize as well though that they probably can't count the number of digital sales that went on through other websites that may not be put into the statistic.
Digital sales has to be in there. How could it not be ?
3 Million in 24 hrs is impressive. Has Cataclysm released in China?
So true and even if they sold 3 more million after 24 hours where are the rest of the people ? That is also hypothetically speaking they even sold that many after 24 hours.
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