According to publisher Activision-Blizzard, Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty has become this year's best selling PC game to date, selling 1.5 million copies in just 48 hours.
 
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  in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and with more than 8,000 stores offering a midnight opening, including Game UK's flagship Oxford Street store, Blizzard's much anticipated sequel managed day one sales of over 1 million.
 
"We launched StarCraft II in 11 different languages and on 5 different continents because we wanted to make sure as many players as possible were able to log on and play on day one," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "We're pleased that so many people around the world have already picked up a copy of the game, and we look forward to welcoming even more players to Battle.net in the weeks and months ahead."
 
Activision-Blizzard recently dropped proposed plans to remove anonymity on the official forums for Starcraft II and World of Warcraft forcing player to reveal their identities. An overwhelming avalanche of negative feedback, as well as a Blizzard employee having his address, phone number, age, the names of his family, his Facebook page and lists of his favourite music and movies published after revealing his real name on the forums prompted Activision-Blizzard to shelve the idea.