Back in May, I posted an article about how Age of Conan shipped 700,000 units for its big release.  Today, although a bit late, I learned that Mythic has shipped more than double that, 1.5 million units to retailers for its release tomorrow (or should I say today since it’s 1am) Sept 18th, absolutely crushing the previous record.  Although not a true world wide release, it’s pretty big shipping units to North America, Europe and Oceania (basically Australia and a few other islands around there)

What does this mean for Warhammer Online gamers?  Well not much.  As we saw with AoC, having a big release will get the game off to a good start, but if you don’t bring the beef players will drop your game faster than a drunk frat girl dropping her panties after she’s had a few.  But it does say something about Mythic’s confidence in its final product, which hopefully is much better than AoC’s was on release day.

Tomorrow I plan on going out and hunting for a copy of War.  Hopefully it won’t be as bad as last time when I tried looking for AoC and wasted about 5 hrs over the course of 2 days before I finally got a copy.  Wish me luck.