The popularity of Warcraft continues to grow, Chen Mo's works, story of Azeroth, revolutionary RTS game, excellent Chinese game were all trending topics that made it to large video game forums and streaming sites.
In particular if you were in the RTS community and didn't know Warcraft, you'd probably be made fun of.
Once the topic got started, it started gaining more and more momentum. Warcraft managed to get forty-three thousand sales on the third day, double that of the first.
That means that on the third day, there were nearly one hundred thousand downloads in total, resulting in eight million RMB in profits.
Extrapolating this data, Warcraft could read eight hundred thousand sales in the first month resulting in about seventy million in profit.
This drove the gaming community crazy, and the drama hungry fans were getting really excited.