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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Declared 'Fastest-selling PC Game of All Time'
by Alice O'Connor, Dec 13, 2010 7:00am PST
Ever keen to shout about its success, developer Blizzard today declared that World of Warcraft's third expansion pack, Cataclysm has become "the fastest-selling PC game of all time."
According to Blizzard's internal records and reports, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm sold-through 3.3 million units within the first twenty-four hours when it launched on December 7. The previous record holder, Blizzard said, was WoW's second expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, which sold 2.8 million on launch day back in November 2008.
The fantasy MMORPG currently has over twelve million 'subscribers,' in a loose sense of the word, though growth has slowed substantially from the early boom days.
This sales performance dwarves that of Blizzard's real-time strategy sequel StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty, which sold over one million copies on launch day in July 2010.
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it has underperformed at retail from what I know
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Really?
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That place was amazing way back, but now... not so much. Luckily it doesn't take all that long to burn through... but it is a bit jarring going to it, especially since you return right back to awesomeness in Northrend.
But whatever. Game is still the bestest. :D
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That being said, if i had to pick a game to come up and dethrone wow, or at least make a nice dent in its place, it would definitely be Guild Wars 2, Arena-nets game is just absolutely full of innovation and if they can deliver the goods i could easily see it snowballing into something huge.
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