Gamasutra reports that the Burning Crusade expansion has surpassed the 3.5 million sales mark -- 2.4 million of which were sold within 24 hours of release. Regions that play on North American realms (which includes Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia) accounted for 1.9 million copies, while the remainder were sold in Europe. BC was recently released in South Korea, and work is underway for Simplified and Traditional Chinese localizations for mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, with an official release date "as soon as possible." The worldwide subscriber base has now reached the 8.5 million mark, with an increase of 500,000 new players in less than two months. For the mathematically-minded among you, that's a 6.25% noob increase since BC's release. [Via Joystiq]
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3-07-2007 @ 2:15PM
Wamphyri said...
Honk Kong eh? Is that where geese live?
;o)
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3-07-2007 @ 2:39PM
Saidar said...
I've always wanted to visit Honk Kong.
Also, does the number 8.5 million include the illegal gold farmer accounts and the like?
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3-07-2007 @ 2:48PM
lardan said...
no, they get their games for free from blizzard, doh
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3-07-2007 @ 6:47PM
Firefly said...
im guessing its actually more like a 50% noob increase since alot of the players who play already are not infact noobs. perhaps u meant a 6.25% player increase, of whom all will be noobs!
yay noob calculations ftw!
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3-09-2007 @ 1:38AM
Grunt said...
That doesn't tell anything.
1) they state the number of account openings. they don't count the number of currently active accounts (closed accounts)
2) alot of "firms" use multiple accounts for their internet selling of virtual goods. hence not every account is a single player.
3) what is more interesting are the mass of players still playing starcraft (though its a blizzard game too)
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