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Lich King sells 2.8 million in 24 hours

Blizzard Entertainment today announced that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King sold more than 2.8 million units in its first 24 hours of availability, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time.
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Published: 394 days 23 hours ago | News | PC
 
 

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Fishy Fingers - 394 days 23 hours ago
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That's a new record surely?
1.1 theKiller | 394 days 23 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Yoma - 394 days 23 hours ago
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thats alot o.o
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Tomdc - 394 days 21 hours ago
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:O

will this record ever be broken for an expansions first day sale!
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Deathaeris - 394 days 23 hours ago
2 - Woah
It is surprising how many people actually play WoW once you think about it
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UltimateIdiot911 - 394 days 22 hours ago
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I find it scary. I would have to say, of all those I knew who played WoW, at least 95% were addicted and spending hours and loads of cash on it (subscription for 2 or so years adds up and expansion).
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power091999 - 394 days 22 hours ago
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I understand what you mean by people spending loads of cash over the course of 2 years... so on and so on.

Break it down into a month though. $15.00 for ~30 days of entertainment. That's only .50 cents a day. I don't think thats a ton of money to pay out for a video game.

Most pay at least $50 - $60 for a game that's over with in 8 hours.

I think WOW is a great quantity to cost ratio.

That's just me though. I pay for my account, my wifes, and my mothers. Worth every penny to me.
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Steven Colbert - 394 days 22 hours ago
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PC gaming is dead? Yeah right!
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Marquis_de_Sade - 394 days ago
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Right, as I'm sure all these WoW addicts play lots of other games inbetween..... not.
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Eiffel - 394 days 22 hours ago
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Thats a lot of Super Nerds.
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Montrealien - 394 days 21 hours ago
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and coming to a videogames site and posting in the comments section is not nerdy at all.

*rolls eyes*

Oh how the times have changed, people are nerds and they don`t even know it.
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Eiffel - 394 days 20 hours ago
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I'm a nerd just for commenting on a video game site?..I had no idea if you played video games you were a nerd it must still be the 80's...Casual gamers do not exist..Wow thanks for letting me see the light..*rolls eyes*

It could not be the fact that WOW is the end all be all of Nerd MMO Titles..nah never..you're right everyone else is wrong.
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Montrealien - 394 days 19 hours ago
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ok, so what your saying is that playing videogames and going on the internet, was geeky and nerdy in the 80`s and 90`s, and that now it`s cool right? I`m guessing you didn`t grow up in those days, you would appreciat the irony of your comment a little more and understand mine.

All I said was that times have changed. Being a geek/nerd is cool now. I always said it was going to be when I was young, guess I am always right. ;D

*shrug*

*gasp*

*bubble hearth*
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Guwapo77 - 394 days 18 hours ago
4.4 - @Montrealien
LoL @ *bubble hearth*

Hi-5 from a distance.

@ Eiffel

Btw, I was one of those 2.8 million "geeks" but if you saw me in real life you wouldn't have guessed it in a million years I even played this game. I got airman that come in the military and are utterly shocked to know I play. You really need to get over that PC MMOs are only for the geeks..
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Montrealien - 394 days 17 hours ago
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I hear ya Guwapo77, I run a successful business full time and my girlfriend just got her Bachelor degree in Nursing from Mgill and we are frequent WoW players.

In my guild we have everything from programmers, wedesigners, Firemen and Bodybuilders to house wives and retired old men. Kids don`t understand the scope of people who play wow, sterotypes are much easier to understand for them.

bubbles back at ya

*stun*

/taunt

*bubble hearth*

;D
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TheForgotten0ne - 394 days 22 hours ago
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Thats just retailer isn't it?
You could also buy it online and start playing 2 hours before those who bought it at the retailer.

But this is alot, sure is.

Congrats Blizzard, you have made all my friends go back to WoW :'(
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GhostFaceGamer - 394 days 22 hours ago
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how many addicted ppl are playing wow ...
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Montrealien - 394 days 21 hours ago
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the world is so easy to look at, when it`s so black and white, would you not agree Ghostfacegamer?
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AllroundGamer - 394 days 21 hours ago
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2.8 million dead souls...
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Montrealien - 394 days 21 hours ago
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another generic knee jerk comment, do you guys even try anymore?
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narked - 394 days 20 hours ago
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and console fans say pc gaming is dying... ohhh pleaseeeeee
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Eiffel - 394 days 20 hours ago
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It is slowly by a certain margin..They need more exclusives besides Strat based games....but hell with all the graphic mermory PC's are still better than consoles..but the level of game errors for PC users are slightly higher risk than that for console users.
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Guwapo77 - 394 days 18 hours ago
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PC gaming isn't dieing. That claim always comes out in the first couple years of a new generation of console releases. Just wait till the next release...
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LinuxGuru - 394 days 20 hours ago
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jeeeeeeeeez!
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JonahFalcon - 394 days 16 hours ago
10 - Record for PC
According to 1Up, the 2.8M in 24 hours is a PC record.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsS...

I believe Halo 2 still holds the record.
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snipermk0 - 394 days 16 hours ago
11 - And..
In another news, PC trounces all console game sales just when console fanboys were starting to get comfortable.
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