It's no surprise that Wrath of the Lich King broke all UK game sales records with 2.8 million (worldwide) units in the first 24 hours, that's up 400,000 since Burning Crusade.
And it's no secret that Blizzard has opened a bunch of new servers to cope with the surge of returning players (that's twelvety billion they now have for their 11+ million players).
And it's really no surprise that every other MMO currently in existence has little more than a skeleton force of players scattered across their, what, twenty severs (at most).
And lastly, it's no wonder that the developers of every other MMO out there are currently sobbing into their bedtime drinks of hot chocolate and methylated spirits!
It really is a shame that World of Warcraft has become this all encompassing MMO behemoth, because while it exists, it'll take nothing short of a real miracle to dent those kind of sales/player figures. Pundits reckoned that top rival, Warhammer Online, was set to pilfer a whole heap of jaded WOW players, but the WOW clone provided little more than a brief amusement before Azeroth was once again teeming with life.
With boxes flying off shelves, it's clear that the sky isn't falling for Blizzard Entertainment and that their regular claims of having in excess of 11 million concurrent subscriptions must be true.
I'll be talking about my feelings on Warcraft soon, but for now I'll leave you with this conundrum: - can any game come close to stealing WOW's crown?
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