World of Warcraft: Shadowlands became the best-selling PC game of all time according to a press release released today by Activision Blizzard. Considering how badly the previous expansion, Battle for Azeroth was received, this achievement is even more extraordinary. It turns out that facing your previous mistakes can save you from an untimely grave.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands sold 3.7 million copies worldwide in its first full day.
World of Warcraft may be 16, but Blizzard’s long-running MMO still has life. Activision Blizzard has revealed that the eighth expansion of World of Warcraft sold 3.7 million copies in its first full day. Not Sold to Resellers: Actual retail and digital copies sold directly to customers. Shadowlands dethrones the previous record holder, Blizzard’s Diablo 3, which sold 3.5 million copies at launch.
This is a pretty impressive feat coming from Battle for Azeroth, which many fans have seen as the lowest point in World of Warcraft (alongside the first promising, but ultimately disappointing Warlords of Draenor). That’s not all though, because if Activision Blizzard is to be believed, World of Warcraft could experience a bit of a renaissance. Here are three more tidbits from the release:
“In the months leading up to the expansion’s release and in the time that has elapsed since launch, the game has caught up and maintained its own
the largest number of players with monthly or long-term subscriptions compared to the same period before and
following any expansion of WoW over the past decade, both in the West and in the East. “” Players have spent more time in Azeroth since the beginning of the year than in the same period in the last 10 years. ” “Additionally, the total player time in play this year to date has nearly doubled compared to the same period last year.”
Ten years ago, Cataclysm, the third expansion of World of Warcraft, came out in the wake of the hugely popular Wrath of the Lich King. This was the high point of World of Warcraft, with 12 million active subscriptions at the time. However, we’ve seen a similar hype surrounding the launch of other expansions, so it’s still a little too early to say whether Shadowlands will be a long-term success. That said, while Shadowlands may not reach the same subscription milestone, it has the potential to become one of the best MMO expansions ever.
Hopefully, this surge of interest is enough to ensure Shadowlands gets a good amount of updates before it gets replaced by whatever comes after. It’s a shame to see such a fantastic expansion become yet another victim of a year of content drought.
– This article was updated on: December 8, 2020
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