Blizzard announced today the overnight success of the European release of World of Warcraft, its first foray into the MMORPG market.

Blizzard reports that its latest game has sold through about 280,000 copies on Friday Feb 11 and roughly 380,000 copies were sold by Feb 13.

World of Warcraft is shattering records in the European market and is the fastest-growing online game in European history. To support the European launch, over 80 servers were set up in Paris and Frankfurt to support the more than 290,000 new characters created during the first weekend. More servers are set up to help support new subscribers.


"We are extremely pleased by the launch of World of Warcraft in Europe," said Mike Morhaime, president of Blizzard Entertainment. "Our experience of launching World of Warcraft in North America last year has helped us to prepare for Europe by providing more boxes at launch than we had previously planned and deploying more servers from the start, which we hope will allow us to provide a smooth and fun game experience from the outset for everyone playing."
World of Warcraft has been available stateside since Nov 22, 2004. .