WoW achieves a million concurrent connections in China

12 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Apr 14th 2008 5:00PM
Filed under: Mac, PC, Online, RPGs, MMO, Business

World of Warcraft's Chinese overlords, The9, announced the game hit the epic (but not legendary) feat of having over one million concurrent connections. According to The9 it breaks the concurrency records set by the game's launch in China on September 6, 2007.

Instinctively, the finger for this record-breaking concurrency is pointed at Chinese gold farmers, but apparently those players are on the North American and European servers and wouldn't be counted in The9's tally. The milestone isn't too shabby for a game that's allegedly peaked.

[Via Massively, Ancient Gaming Noob]

Tags: blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, the9, world-of-warcraft, worldofwarcraft, wow

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Mikeymike: Apr 14th 2008; 5:12PM

awesome

nxtiak: Apr 14th 2008; 5:13PM

WOW! (no pun intended)

samfish: Apr 14th 2008; 5:14PM

That's a loooot of Chinese virgins on the computer.

nxtiak: Apr 14th 2008; 5:16PM

Is it more than the American virgins playing WoW? I think not.

samfish: Apr 14th 2008; 5:33PM

True, but like pollution, I have no doubt that China will surpass the US in the number of virgins playing WoW very shortly.

doom saber: Apr 14th 2008; 5:24PM

Wonder if China has gold farmers on the chinese servers and if so, if that is one of the reasons why China reached a million

Matt B: Apr 14th 2008; 5:52PM

They must be using +2 Servers of Wonder.

Nein: Apr 14th 2008; 5:54PM

Sounds fishy. China has 4-5 million WoW subscribers, but what games ever get 1/5th of their total owners to play simultaneously? None.

sean: Apr 15th 2008; 1:14AM

Its certainly reasonable given that players are paying a monthly fee and would want to make sure they get their moneys worth.

Ordowski: Apr 15th 2008; 12:13AM

That doesn't shock me too much. I live in China and the net cafes here are full of people playing WOW or Counter Strike (see ess eee as they call it) and that's it, nothing else.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force): Apr 15th 2008; 2:12AM

Against an army of a million Persian goldminers, stand a legion of 300 PvPers.

THIS IS AZEROTH

dark_inchworm: Apr 15th 2008; 11:37AM

"WoW's initial launch in June of 2005"

OK, this comment is probably going to be ignored, but... what?

Where did it launch in June of 2005?

I am unfortunately not able to do the research at this time thanks to filtering at school, but I believe WoW made its debut in November of 2004.

...nevermind, I AM able to look up "Blizzard Entertainment," and wikipedia says that it debuted on November 23, 2004.

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