World of Warcraft reached 12 million subscribers in October 2010, its all-time peak, and its third expansion, Cataclysm, sold 3.3 million copies in 24 hours when it launched on 7 December, a PC record at the time. It was the year WoW was the biggest game in the world.
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Publisher
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Released
- 7 December 2010
- Platforms
- PC, Mac
- Genre
- MMORPG
- Kind of game
- mmo
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