World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is a record breaker

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is a record breaker

Videogame developers Blizzard has said in a statement that their recently launched World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade game add-on has broken the sales record by becoming the fastest-selling PC game ever in North America and Europe.

The company sold as many as 2.4 million copies of the game on the first day of release.

Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment said in a statement: “The Burning Crusade has already exceeded even our most ambitious expectations. We’re pleased that so many players are eager to see all of the new content that the expansion has to offer, and we look forward to seeing everyone online as additional players continue to upgrade in the days ahead.”

Robert McKenzie of GameStop added: “The immediate popularity of The Burning Crusade once again shows that Blizzard consistently delivers what gamers want. In addition to setting a new day-one PC-game sales record at our GameStop and EB Games stores, the expansion garnered more online pre-orders than any other PC game in our company’s history.”