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Burning Crusade, WoW Expansion Pack Now Available

Before World of Warcraft (and now its Burning Crusade expansion pack) Blizzard Entertainment was best known for the Warcraft and Starcraft real time strategy series as well as the popular role-playing game, Diablo.

Blizzard Entertainment began offering "World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade" with a potential market of 8 million players, the number of currently registered WoW players. Those wanting to buy the new WoW expansion pack, Burning Crusade, can find it at a price of $20.

Blizzard will cash in several tens of millions of dollars from the expansion pack price alone, alongside current monthly subscription fees.

New things in Burning Crusade: a new continent, added levels, new quests, monsters and dungeons.

World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series. The Warcraft games are set in the Warcraft Universe, a fantasy setting introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994. World of Warcraft itself takes place within the world of Azeroth, four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. World of Warcraft's release celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

Although its initial release was hampered by server stability and performance issues, the game is a financial success, being the world's leading subscription-based MMORPG. On January 11, 2007, Blizzard announced that the subscriber base for World of Warcraft has reached a new milestone, with 8 million players worldwide, and with more than 2 million players in North America, more than 1.5 million players in Europe, and more than 3.5 million players in China.