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.

According to Blizzard World of Warcraft 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.

Cool – not having played MMORPG (if you dont count Diablo 1+2 in that market) I even held it in my hands when I remembered I am still not finished with my Half Life 2 :-)

I guess that success pays of for 4-5 years development… I'll have to checkout about their servers & infrastructure they use to host the zillions of parallel gamers…

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