One million concurrent connections set record in WoW

by Shawn Schuster Apr 13th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Academic

Can you imagine one million people doing anything simultaneously? This is one of those fascinating statistics like how a child is born every 3.6 seconds or someone eats meatloaf every 4.9 seconds. Never mind the fact that those previous stats are completely made up, World of Warcraft recently achieved the astounding feat of one million concurrent players in China. Not only is this a testament to the network stability in China, but it's also a new record for the game since it's launch in June of 2005.

Amid unfounded allegations that these were all gold sellers, the fact of the matter is that gold sellers go where the money is: the European and North American servers. Regardless, this new record is quite a feat and we now anxiously await the next record-breaking event. Most random duel requests in a second? Most uses of the word "noob" on one server? We shall see.

Tags: blizzard, blizzard-entertainment, chinese, one-million, world-of-warcraft, wow

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tessa said on 12:00AM 4-14-2008

Maybe Linden Labs should seriously think about hiring one or more of WoW's engineers away. They have massive problems at just 60,000 or so simultaneous logins.

jst8 said on 10:19AM 4-14-2008

Your clever comment about gold farmers got me wondering: if a person in China logged onto a US server (gold farmer or not), did he count towards the million? That is, are we counting people on Chinese servers or people whose connection originates in China?
Not that it matters, just wondering.