Place your bets! WoW is consistently top played game of the day, will Starcraft II take the top spot?

Yes for at least a month.

Yeppers

For you, the day Starcraft 2 released may have been the greatest event of your life. But for me 
 
it was monday.

" For you, the day Starcraft 2 released may have been the greatest event of your life. But for me  it was monday. "

Probably not.

Going with no.

Of course.  Somebody put money up against me.  I dare ya...

...there's 11 million active WoW users.

I think it will.

will the site even track it? there is not sc/b.net account linking. 

I believe there is a good chance.

assuming it even gets tracked, i think SC2 is gonna blow away everything tomorrow.

Red Dead beat out WoW for a few days on here, so I'd say so if SC2 is on the system

" @KaosAngel: I think he means on Giantbomb. "

" For you, the day Starcraft 2 released may have been the greatest event of your life. But for me  it was monday. "

" will the site even track it? there is not sc/b.net account linking.  "

No. Unless they include the Korean stats and the European stats. 
Starcraft 2 is a pretty core game and I seriously doubt Ozzy Osbourne or Mr. T would be the kind of people that want to play it.

" @Jack268 said:

" For you, the day Starcraft 2 released may have been the greatest event of your life. But for me  it was monday. "

It releases on Tuesday... "

you could guestimate the impact on wow play it has by looking at the average number of people that play wow regularly of the last couple weeks, and see how many plays there are for it tomorrow. It's  not exact science, but i would be willing to bet 90%+ of the plays missing from wow tomorrow will be because of starcraft 2. Then again people will probably still log into wow for a minute or so even if they are playing starcraft 2 for the rest of the day. I'm pretty sure I just unvalidated my original point. Whatever.

It might but only because most people that play WoW probably  like starcraft as well

It is quite unfair though, because Giantbomb tracks every WoW character as a separate account, meaning a player who plays maybe 10 characters that are being tracked on GB for 2 hrs(hypothetically) will add 10 to the played count while someone playing SC2 for 2 hours will still only add one play to the counter. At least I believe this is how it works.  TL;DR = I doubt SC2 will go higher than WoW on GiantBomb unless it can be tracked through bnet.

"  (serious multiplayer dudes will no doubt make several ones to try and keep "perfect" win/loss ratios). "

Well, it seems like it won't be happening tomorrow because Giant Bomb doesn't track it yet...or does it?

I would go with yes.

I still got a raid tommorow night in WoW, i gotta get my phat lootz and then i'll go back to starcraft 2.

Oh man, such a hard prediction to make, the last time I saw a game beat WoW it was Modern Warfare 2. If I had to guess either way I'd say no.

on GB yes, overall fuck no

Here at GiantBomb? Yeah, seems plausible. 

In the entire world? Hell no.

No, on Giant Bomb most likely.

" @Jack268 said:

" @adamfedoruk said:

" will the site even track it? there is not sc/b.net account linking.  "

This. So for the site to count it, I'm guessing there would have to be enough users on Giantbomb who bought it on Steam who would have to play tommorow. Giantbomb had 70 000 users last I checked(probably 80 000 now) many of these are duplicates/inactive. I'd say about 5 000 users tops on Giantbomb bought SC2. AFAIK the retail versions cannot be activated on Steam. A lot of people bought collector's edition and others waited in line for the midnight launch. I doubt over 2000-3000 Giantbomb users have it on Steam and are all going to play it tommorow.  It is quite unfair though, because Giantbomb tracks every WoW character as a separate account, meaning a player who plays maybe 10 characters that are being tracked on GB for 2 hrs(hypothetically) will add 10 to the played count while someone playing SC2 for 2 hours will still only add one play to the counter. At least I believe this is how it works.  TL;DR = I doubt SC2 will go higher than WoW on GiantBomb unless it can be tracked through bnet.  Oh, it's not even on Steam. Yeah, good luck with this then. "

did you just imply that you can buy SC2 on steam? you can't  the steam store is pretending it doesn't exist "

Yeah there isn't any StarCraft/Battle.Net tracking on GiantBomb so you won't see it on there.