On January 15th, 2007, The Burning Crusade was unleashed onto the world. I zipped down to the Fountain Valley Fry’s to get in on some of the excitement. There was around 1500 or so people by the end of the night. They did a good job with keeping people entertained, having a local radio station, and some hotdog and lunchcarts nearby. A Taruen even showed up to do a dance, (we found her myspace here!) After waiting in line for a few hours, we were finally let in, and wisked through the store. Tons and tons of developers were there, and I got tons of sigs on my collectors edition of the box.

Overall, it was actually less packed then. Semi-official numbers say there was no more then 2,000 people there, whereas the original game’s launch had 6,000 people at the same Fry’s. I attribute this to the distributed launch; lots of game store chains were having midnight openings, as well as there being 2 other official release parties, one in San Fran, another in Anaheim, and the last and probably most spectacular, at the Universal Citywalk, where the Wii release was held. Mad props to the Cyberangel, who toughed it out for most of the day on her day off.

Only this footage remains of the adventure: