Earlier this week, I pointed out how hard it is to get a congealed community to scatter. Blizzard has found a novel approach to the problem.

Link courtesy of N3rfed, who like many, is astonished by WoW’s announcement of having 200K accounts and 88 servers after two days. And I must admit, that’s a hell of a trajectory. I note that a lot of people that I didn’t think played MMOs are picking the title up. The game has the potential to be a true phenomenon.

Should we be surprised? How many RTS titles were there? And by how much did Starcraft crush them all?

Still, whether they’ll reach 1M will depend a lot on how sticky the game is, and how well they support the service. Given their team spent Thanksgiving putting up 46 new servers, it would seem they have clue.