WoW achieves a million concurrent connections in China
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ Apr 14th 2008 at 5:00PM }
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]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
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.