World of Warcraft Announcement is one of the fastest-rising stories on Reddit right now. We found 4 threads in 3 different communities, starting at Nov 5, 05:23 UTC; r/gaming, r/pcgaming and r/Games carry most of the discussion. Combined, those threads hold roughly 11.4K upvotes and 2K comments so far.
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- IGN: World of Warcraft Forever's Launch Was Running on Over 200,000 Gigabytes of RAM
World of Warcraft Forever launched last night, and while there were a ton of people playing, the servers were remarkably stable. And, it turns out that Blizzard dedicated a ton of resources to making those servers stable.
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/gaming | 2 | 8,053 | 1,222 | Nov 5, 05:23 UTC |
| r/pcgaming | 1 | 1,855 | 343 | Nov 5, 13:54 UTC |
| r/Games | 1 | 1,450 | 432 | Nov 5, 16:55 UTC |
The biggest threads
- World of Warcraft Forever's Launch Was Running on Over 200,000 Gigabytes of RAMr/gaming · 4,896 upvotes · 581 comments · Nov 6, 05:34 UTC · IGN
- World of Warcraft Forever Has Finally Landed, And it Seems Like a Smooth Launch: Live Blogr/gaming · 3,157 upvotes · 641 comments · Nov 5, 05:23 UTC · IGN
- World of Warcraft: Forever has gone live, and PC gamers are calling it the smoothest launch in Blizzard's MMORPG historyr/pcgaming · 1,855 upvotes · 343 comments · Nov 5, 13:54 UTC · windowscentral.com
- World of Warcraft: Forever has gone live, and PC gamers are calling it the smoothest launch in Blizzard's MMORPG historyr/Games · 1,450 upvotes · 432 comments · Nov 5, 16:55 UTC · windowscentral.com
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/gaming: “World of Warcraft Forever Has Finally Landed, And it Seems Like a Smooth Launch: Live Blog”
- The story reaches r/pcgaming: “World of Warcraft: Forever has gone live, and PC gamers are calling it the smoothest launch in Blizzard's MMORPG history”
- The story reaches r/Games: “World of Warcraft: Forever has gone live, and PC gamers are calling it the smoothest launch in Blizzard's MMORPG history”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/gaming (4,896 upvotes, 581 comments by our last count).
- Latest thread in our sample, in r/gaming.
Related searches
world of warcraft announcement · world of warcraft forever launch
How this page is made
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