World of Warcraft Shatters Sales Records

Mightydos writes " An interesting article was posted on Blizzard.com today... They say World of Warcraft® has sold through more than 600,000* units to customers in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. The fastest-growing massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) has also shattered all previous concurrency records in North America, achieving over 200,000 simultaneous players during the holiday period. "

Where's the linux client

[Trigun]

I'll make it 600,001!

(Do you think that's enough incentive?)

Call me jaded, but...

[StevenHenderson]

Step 1: Develop solid game idea and use the namesake to start a franchise
Step 2: Bring online to introduce monthly fee
Step 3: Profit

Yes, I know I am supposed to have a "???" in there...

600,000*????

[American AC in Paris]

600,000* units! Wow!

That could be 600,000,600,000,600,000,600,000,600,000,600,000 units--or even more! Simply astounding!

(Of course, it could also be no units sold...)

Thank the mac users

[Teese]

All 10 of us helped shatter the record! If this isn't proof enough of why games should be simultaneously released for mac and pc's users then I don't know what is.

(yes this is a joke, don't worry about it. All mac users, I know there are more than 10 of you out there. and PC users, I know that the pitiful amount of macusers in the game didn't make much of a difference in sales numbers)

Divorces Shatter All-time Record

[krbvroc1]

Hundreds of thousands of WOW Widows have filed for divorce.

In other news, eHarmony is offering a new 'replace my mate' match service; online gamesplayers are banned from signing up for the service.

Re:WoW is brilliant

[Swamii]

600,000 users * $15 per user * 12 months = 108,000,000

say it with me, more than <pinky at corner of mouth> ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS

There would have been even more sold if...

[5n3ak3rp1mp]

... elves and humans got a Gnome or Dwarf-tossing ability at lvl30... so many times I saw a cute gnome and wanted to select it and do a /toss or maybe even a /pat on the head... alas

I keed, I keed (lectrick, lvl29 elven hunter in zul'jin)

Re:Sold out everywhere?

[lscotte]

Driving around town to the various stores looking for the game is a strange real world counterpart to a quest in the game. You mission is go search for this box and bring it back to the computer. I've met other people at the stores also looking for WoW, usually staring at an empty slot on the shelf, "yeah, it's supposed to be right here".

You just have to wait long enough for the game box to respawn on the store shelves. Usually it only takes a few minutes. Did you also talk to the guy at the store with the big yellow "!" over his head first?

Blizzard vs. Bnetd

[bonch]

Wow, 600,000. So, I take it we're all over the Bnetd fiasco then?

Re:Divorces Shatter All-time Record

[mal3]

On that same subject I was in a Wendy's the other day and 2 girls walked in who were roughly 18-23. Not unattractive, but not supermodels either. I overheard part of their conversation which went something like "I wanna be a night elf Druid", "I wanna be a Tauren shaman", etc.

Re:Anyone know

[BTWR]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (waves hands around in a "spooky" manner)

Re:Some things that helped

[Dark Paladin]

Probably because he's someone with an addictive personality, and has no life.

I have a job, wife, three kids, bills, and training, so I have to budget my time. So, I just remove the time I'd spend watching TV and play instead.

Sounds like your friend needs an intervention. And I'm being mostly serious on that - get the man a damned life.

Re:Anyone know

[shokk]

Yeah, I guess you can consider an XBox Live subscription free if you ignore the money you exchanged for it.

Re:Been playing it on linux for almost a month...

[nuggetman]

Basic stuff you have to do to run Windows games under FC3: turn off prelinking (easy), turn on legacy VA memory layout (easy) and disable exec-shield (easy).

The other changes were like using version 6111 of the nvidia drivers instead of 6629 (performance issues), enabling SBA and Fast Writes, etc, all to improve card performance (which benifits all games!). Also had to use openGL instead of D3D rendering in the game (adding -opengl switch to launcher) to increase FPS again.

sheesh, is that all? god, it's a wonder desktop linux hasn't taken the gaming world by storm!