PARIS, France. 15th February, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that World of Warcraft® has become an overnight success in Europe, achieving record-breaking sales in its first 24 hours since the game launched on Friday, 11th February. World of Warcraft, the company's subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has sold-through an estimated 280,000* copies at retail on day-one, selling more units in one day than what was previously thought to be the overall cumulative size of the European MMORPG market. This figure rose to more than 380,000 units being sold-through by the end of the first weekend.

As the fastest-growing online game in European history, World of Warcraft has shattered previous records for highest number of accounts created, concurrent user populations and number of servers. More than 290,000 players created World of Warcraft accounts during the first weekend, and 100,000 of those were playing the game concurrently on the first day. A first time ever peak concurrency of over 180,000 players in Europe was reached during the first weekend. To support the European launch, Blizzard deployed over 80 servers at the World of Warcraft data centres in Paris and Frankfurt; additional servers are on standby as new players subscribe to the game.

I didn't see a thread so I thought I would post one :] Looks like the European launch went well. They started with the amount of servers we just about have now so obviously they learned from the major cock up with the US/ANZ release.

Source: http://www.blizzard.com/press/050215.shtml

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Man pings to Europe really suck the big one though.

Will you still be saying that when battlegrounds is implemented?

battlegrounds are already implemented in daoc..

because its been out for years and has like 50 expansion packs? :P

navyseal: why didnt u just goto any local computer shop and buy it, its been out for ages now in australia.

he already has, as he said

50 expansion packs?

3 retail, 2 free.

someones sarcasm detector needs a service

Meh! I was jealous to thank that those dirty Euros had gotten a better release than us ;] Good to see :D