Blizzard unveiled Tuesday that the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has completely shattered the day-1 sales record with nearly 24 million
By Captain Maverick
Jan 24, 2007 05:26 AM GMT
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that its expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has broken the first-day sales record with almost 2.4 million copies sold in the first 24-hours of its availability. The Burning Crusade was simultaneously released in North America, Europe, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia on January 16, and on January 17 in Australia and New Zealand. 5,000 stores throughout the world carried 4,000,000 copies of the expansion.The totals included about 1.2 million copies of Burning Crusade sold in the first day in North America, about 1.1 million copies sold in Europe. By the end of the day, there were more than 1.7 million players logged on and playing on their newly upgraded accounts. Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment said “The Burning Crusade has already exceeded even our most ambitious expectations.” Mr. Morhaime further stated that “We’re pleased that so many players are eager to see all of the new content that the expansion has to offer, and we look forward to seeing everyone online as additional players continue to upgrade in the days ahead.” Retailers are also still reporting strong demand, and of course this means that if you are headed out to get your copy of The Burning Crusade, you better call ahead and make sure that it is in stock before run out in the cold to get your copy. There are two versions of the expansion, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, standard and the collector's edition priced at $39.99 and $69.99 respectively. The collector's edition comes with a ton of extras including the World of Warcraft card game, the soundtrack CD, the game DVD as well as the CDS, a book of WoW artwork, a mouse pad, and even a very special pet, a Netherwhelp dragon, and an exclusive look into behind the scenes of The Burning Crusade development. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade has received a Teen rating from the ESRB.
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