Blizzard Entertainment reported Wednesday that its expansion pack to the strike secret plan World of Warcraft , The Burning Crusade , had sell through about 3.5 million copies in its first month of firing , from mid - January to mid - February . That translates into a total of 8.5 million World of Warcraft players worldwide .
World of Warcraft is Blizzard ’s submission into the subscription - based massively multiplayer online function play game ( MMORPG ) market . It brings player to an on-line earthly concern where they can transmit , join forces with or oppose each other as they explore the fantasy worldly concern of Azeroth , populated by organism fantastic and magical , as they go on quests , welcome magic items , build experience and prepare their own personal character .
The game was released simultaneously for the Mac and PC , and has been kept developmentally in lock - pace on both platforms since its freeing . Likewise , the expansion plurality was a hybrid release — both program are supported using a exclusive game disk . Blizzard has continue to down the curriculum to take reward of fundamental benefits in the Mac computer architecture include Intel C.P.U. support and multithreaded OpenGL , which improves art performance on multicore and multiprocessor Intel - based Macs .
The Burning Crusade , the first expansion ring to the game since its release in 2004 , adds new features and capableness , admit two young playable races , newfangled stratum cap , a new profession , fresh items , monsters and dungeons to search , and an entirely new continent called Outland — a place where high - grade grapheme can compete and quest for even more powerful items than before .
Amazon.com reported it received more preorders for The Burning Crusade than any other microcomputer or console plot in its history , and Wal - Mart said that the game had the honest day - one sales event of any PC game launching in its story .
