World of Warcraft in the history books

Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft has smashed opening-day records for a PC game, selling roughly 240,000 copies.  Sure it ain't Halo 2, but the figures are impressive considering that WoW is an MMORPG.  And as you may have guessed, the game also broke first-day records for peak concurrency and account creation for an MMORPG, seeing over 200,000 players joining the online arena and 100,000 of them playing simultaneously by 5:00 pm (PST).  Needless to say, all of the original servers were filled to capacity, and 40 more had to be added by the end of this past weekend.