WOAH yea.. 2.4 million copies on launch day for a PC game
by Vashner · in General Discussion · 01/23/2007 (11:08 pm) · 24 replies
ROFL WOW's expansion sold 2.4 million on day one. Let's assume that's pre-order program as well.
Only think I can think of is... folks.. the customers are there... it's exciting times for PC's. Consoles had there sunshine last few months but time for the Vista...
Here comes the wave... Surfs up!
www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/23/blizzard_wow_fastestselling_game/
Only think I can think of is... folks.. the customers are there... it's exciting times for PC's. Consoles had there sunshine last few months but time for the Vista...
Here comes the wave... Surfs up!
www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/23/blizzard_wow_fastestselling_game/
Quote:Irvine (CA) - World of Warcraft's expansion, The Burning Crusade, sold nearly 2.4 million copies on the first day and became the fastest selling PC game ever. Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of World of Warcraft, released the sales figures earlier today and adds that more 1.7 million players logged in on the same day.
#22
I'll have to disagree with you about gold buying Sears. I see even the casual players 'grinding' out levels. This is what makes no sense to me. Buy all the gold you want, but why waste time in-game just to get to an end result? The journey is what is supposed to be fun, not just the end result of that journey.
04/20/2007 (11:00 pm)
SWG pre-combat upgrade was the best MMO system to date, but that's a whole new thread....I'll have to disagree with you about gold buying Sears. I see even the casual players 'grinding' out levels. This is what makes no sense to me. Buy all the gold you want, but why waste time in-game just to get to an end result? The journey is what is supposed to be fun, not just the end result of that journey.
#23
You can grab it for chepa now because it isn't new and there are no monthly fees so you don't lose out if you can't play it for a week or so.
I was well surprised with how nice it looks on my old pc, how smoothly it runs and the way character creation (main+secondary) and skill progression works. It loads straight aways and there are tons of people playing it. In UK you can get it for
04/21/2007 (12:24 am)
I have recently started to play Guild Wars, the original offering not even the expansion packs. You can grab it for chepa now because it isn't new and there are no monthly fees so you don't lose out if you can't play it for a week or so.
I was well surprised with how nice it looks on my old pc, how smoothly it runs and the way character creation (main+secondary) and skill progression works. It loads straight aways and there are tons of people playing it. In UK you can get it for
#24
04/21/2007 (9:48 am)
My lil input.... Guild Wars rooooock! The only thing intefering with my game dev... :) 
Torque Owner J Sears
It's like cheating in online fps, it makes no sense to cheat for most people, there's nothing to gain and you only miss out on accomplishing stuff on your own. But yet people always cheat, plenty of people, why? I dunno maybe destroying everyone in a video game is all they have going on in their life so they cheat to get it done.
Those same people will always buy items and gold in mmos to most of us that makes no sense, why shorten the game time you have just so you can go look at this cool armor that I spent $100 bucks in real life money to get. If that's what they need in life let them have it.
I would like to see a mmo (I don't know how to accomplish this) where you have plenty of interaction with other players but you still have mostly interaction with the people you want to, and I don't mean instanced dungeons and all that so you can be away from people completly just some way when there are those gold buyers /gold farmers/botters/obnoxious 12 year olds they some how don't effect your game play at all and only the good players do. Like I said that is a dream and I have no clue how one would go about it but it would be nice