WOW descending in the U.S. Sales Charts

[Treesh]

Afaik, all orders and pre-orders go into the sales charts as well, so it really doesn't matter if they deliver in 2 days or 2 weeks.
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Yes, but the lack of sales from the brick-and-mortar stores will negatively affect sales charts. If you had been reading the US WoW boards from day one, you see that a lot of people had trouble getting the game and that the stores had trouble restocking. The last minute Christmas shoppers also had a heck of a time trying to get the game if they didn't plan ahead and pre-order from online stores. The fact that Blizzard is limiting their restocking has negatively affected the sales chart.

Just keep in mind that statistics really don't show the whole truth and can be construed umpteen different ways. I really don't think it's necessary to start ringing the alarms about WoW fizzling out yet. It still sold more in the first few days than any other first few days sales of other MMORPGs and a lot of those other MMORPGs are still doing fine in terms of active subscriptions.