Exclusive: World Of Warcraft’s U.S. Retail Sales Total 8.6 Million (Gamasutra)- Topic: Warcraft News
The NPD Group rolled up multiple SKUs of the massively popular PC online game and its expansion packs since its November 2004 launch to arrive at the 8. If it wasn’t for wow drama and Halo 3, then I’d probably still be playing this amazing game. Rob, when EA stated The Sims had sold 100 million units worldwide, they included expansion packs there, even when they may not be played as standalone games 
And even if we agree that the subscriber amount is suspicious, we cannot just dismiss the impact of WoW in gaming. I didn’t know that the Sims PR folks fudged the numbers there too by counting expansion packs, but looking at WoW, I consider Lich King a separate game only because you play in an entirely different realm with new monsters, entirely new classes, etc. read more
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