World of Warcraft far from dead, Battle for Azeroth breaks launch day record

World of Warcraft is almost 14 years old. The massively multiplayer online game’s seventh expansion, Battle for Azeroth, launched on August 14. The PC game has been around a long time. You might think that it must be nearing its end. You may even feel temped to join the choirs singing “WoW is dead.” But World of Warcraft is far from dead. Blizzard Entertainment announced today that Battle for Azeroth sold over 3.4 million copies worldwide on its first day, breaking the record for a World of Warcraft expansion.

Blizzard stopped reporting subscription numbers for World of Warcraft in 2015. Since then, we don’t get many metrics to help us figure out how World of Warcraft is doing, but Battle for Azeroth’s record-breaking debut shows us that the MMO is doing just fine (at least when a new expansion debuts).