[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]The figure of 4.5 million games is from December 2010, not February 2011. So in 5 months it sold 3 times more than what the original SC did in one year (the original SC sold 1.5 million games in it's first year). Yes the original games sold about 10 million copies but let's not forget it achieved this number by being on sale for more than 10 years, in fact it still is on sale. I hardly call it a failure, and even blizzard said that the game was a commercial success.I do agree on the LAN bit. It was a pity Blizzard removed it.[/citation]
What I meant is that the sales of SC2 were helped by a massive SC1 comunity, probably 10 mil SC1 buyers and 50-100 mil pirates, all playing the game on Bnet or LAN, making fan websites, writing about strategies, units, the cinematics, etc - a fanatic following. And with the help of this fanatic community managed to sell 4.5 mil of SC2 due to their greed and stupidity (removing features).
Now SC2 is played by 4 mil people or less, I rarely hear people discussing this game at all. By today's standrds this is rather mediocre. What sales would you expect for that to bring when they release the next exp?