WAR, which releases across North America, Europe, and Oceania this Thursday following three years in development, sets a company record for the most retail pre-orders placed for a PC title in publisher EA's history.
"This is truly a historic day for both EA and Mythic as we prepare to send more copies of WAR to retailers than any other newly launched MMORPG in North America and Europe,” said Mythic co-founder and GM Mark Jacobs.
“Over the course of our beta, over a million gamers throughout the world sent a clear signal to us - they want WAR, and we are more than happy to oblige them."
Pre-orders for the game compare favorably to those of Funcom's Age of Conan, which shipped 700,000 copies to retailers for its release earlier this year, but fall short of World of Warcraft expansion The Burning Crusade, which sold 2.4 million copies to consumers worldwide on day one in January 2007, breaking first day PC game sales records in North America and Europe. That record will soon be up for grabs again as Blizzard announced on Monday a November 13 release date for World of Warcraft’s second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.