Blizzard announced today that World of Warcraft: Legion, the sixth expansion for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, has sold more than 3.3 million copies since its launch on the 30th August.
This milestone means that Legion has matched the all-time record achieved by previous expansions, marking the highest launch-week player concurrency since Cataclysm released back in 2010. This also makes it one of the fastest selling PC games ever.
“It’s been a thrill to see players hunting demons, powering up Artifacts, and freely exploring all the new zones in Legion,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We worked hard to make this the best World of Warcraft expansion yet, and we look forward to providing players with even more content as Legion’s epic story unfolds in the months ahead.”
Blizzard’s already working on the next chapter for Legion, revealing the first details about patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan at PAX West, which will be the first major content update for the expansion. Featuring a reimagined version of one of World of Warcraft’s most popular raids, Return to Karazhan will also see a new set of quests in the fallen night elf city of Suramar, as well as a brand-new raid called the Trial of Valor, which sends players deep into the vrykul underworld of Helheim.
We’re currently working on a review for World of Warcraft: Legion, although it’ll be a little while before we can give our full assessment – after all we do like to take our time with MMOs – but you can see our Week 1 in Review report here.
