‘WoW: Legion’ sold 3.3 million copies by Day 1, matching the Sales Records of all Previous Expansions
Man, I got motherfuckers on all sides of me telling me to buy WoW: Legion. Man, apparently motherfuckers on all sides of me are buying WoW: Legion.
Blizzard have released some official numbers to back up the statements made at PAX last week.
In a press release, Blizzard have revealed some more exact WoW: Legion sales figures. By August 30, it had sold through “more than” 3.3 million copies, matching the previous records set by other expansions and, by the best data we have, making it “one of” the fastest selling PC games ever.
If you’re thinking of getting the expansion, check out our WoW Legion review.
Perhaps more interestingly, they also say that “launch-week player concurrency climbed to its highest point since the 2010 launch of Cataclysm.” As discussed below, player concurrency doesn’t necessarily represent subscriber count, but given the start of Cataclysm was the game’s all-time peak of 12 million subs, that bodes very well for the future of the game.
Another comparison to make is this means it broke whatever concurrency record was set by Warlords of Draenor. The sales figures given for WOD were a similar “more than 3.3 million as of the first 24 hours of the expansion’s availability” and hitting the 10 million subscriber count for that month. This was before they began to use player concurrency as a mark of success, however, so no details on that were provided.
At best guess, it means Legion has performed better than Warlords overall, and similarly in terms of hype generated for launch. Despite misgivings about how WOD was handled, clearly there are plenty of players willing to come back for a new expansion. Whether they can be held on to this time – three million left the game within four months after Warlords – remains to be seen.