According to the official press-release of Wargaming.net, as on November 16, 2010 World of Tanks’ community reached 500,000 active players worldwide. The game was released on August 12, 2010 in Russia and reached 350,000 active players (500,000 registrations). In the USA and Europe World of Tanks, being in closed beta test for that moment, had 150,000 active players (200,000 registrations).
According to the same press-release the number of peak con-current users (PCCU) in Russia exceeded 43,000. In the West PCCU surpassed 10,000 players. On average each active gamer spent 3 hours and 20 minutes playing the game every day. As on November 16, 2010 10 million battles have been fought since September.[5]
