After one week of The Burning Crusade´s launch in China, World of Warcraft is reported to regain its momentum. The9 added nine server groups to its operation and some estimates the peak concurrent users may have exceeded 800,000
 

The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY - News; "The9") and Blizzard Entertainment ("Blizzard") today announced that Blizzard Entertainment''s World of Warcraft, the subscription-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) has achieved record peak concurrency of 800,000, highest concurrency since the game''s commercial launch in June 2005, after launching its new expansion pack, "The Burning Crusade", in mainland China on September 6, 2007.

We observed that numerous existing players return to or play more of the World of Warcraft game after the launch of The Burning Crusade new expansion and new players have also been attracted to join. In the field of 3D MMORPG, the World of Warcraft game is now in a leading position again and has written a new chapter to mainland China''s online game history.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the exciting new expansion to Blizzard''s award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It expands the game by tremendous bounds, adding new races, lands, Battlegrounds, professions, items, and many more features.