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]
Reader Comments (12)
Posted: Apr 14th 2008 5:24PM doom saber said
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
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Posted: Apr 14th 2008 5:54PM (Unverified) said
Sounds fishy. China has 4-5 million WoW subscribers, but what games ever get 1/5th of their total owners to play simultaneously? None.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 12:13AM nerd in a room said
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.
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Posted: Apr 15th 2008 2:12AM ThornedVenom said
Against an army of a million Persian goldminers, stand a legion of 300 PvPers.
THIS IS AZEROTH
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THIS IS AZEROTH
Posted: Apr 15th 2008 11:37AM darkinchworm said
"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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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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