General Discussion

The game seems to be a huge sucess in Europe, judging by how active the EU forums are on the official site, as well as the amount of European fans on this board.

If you look at the US forums its about the same 30 people posting where the EU forums have around 100-200 unique posters at most times.

I walked past a Lineage2 box that claimed 13million accounts.  That sure puts AoC to shame.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Easy to boast when you have a lot of first time players who have not found out how unfinished the latter levels are.

Come back here in a couple months and they will be struggling to have 200k.  You can bet your life they won't be telling you account numbers then.

To say this game is a major disappointment is a understatement.

and with 200k subs aoc still remains number 2 in western markets cause lotro is at 150k, u call that game a failure aswell? no its a succes, most modern mmos are struggling to get anywhere near 100k subs

anyway gz to fc, maybe i dont have to read posts about fc going bankrupt rofl.. and all aoc players have fun, im waiting for the secret world of fc :P i like the setting and im just curious, maybe the next update will turn me off but that not a big deal

Didn't they already sell over one million copies. If so that would mean they already lost 300k subscribers?

Originally posted by 3on1

Originally posted by Ozmodan

Easy to boast when you have a lot of first time players who have not found out how unfinished the latter levels are.

Come back here in a couple months and they will be struggling to have 200k.  You can bet your life they won't be telling you account numbers then.

To say this game is a major disappointment is a understatement.

and with 200k subs aoc still remains number 2 in western markets cause lotro is at 150k, u call that game a failure aswell? no its a succes, most modern mmos are struggling to get anywhere near 100k subs

anyway gz to fc, maybe i dont have to read posts about fc going bankrupt rofl.. and all aoc players have fun, im waiting for the secret world of fc :P i like the setting and im just curious, maybe the next update will turn me off but that not a big deal

Sorry Eve has over 200k accounts so maybe #3, and Turbine does not give out subscription numbers so you have no idea how many active accounts they have.
 

Hey, if you enjoy the game fine, but even now the servers are starting to empty out.  Wait till War comes out this fall, Funcom will stuggle to have 50k active accounts.   AoC has flop written all over it mainly because Funcom did a horrible design.   I'd even reactivate my Wow account before reactivating AoC, at least there are things to do in Wow.

Going to be fun playing by yourself won't it

Originally posted by oakae

Didn't they already sell over one million copies. If so that would mean they already lost 300k subscribers?

no its 1 million shipped to retailers. 700k keys activated, so about 700k boxes sold (maybe some more) but we dont now how many of that 700k are still playing. i suspect from 350k to 500k are still playing, everyone who still plays claims the servers are alive and kicking, everyone i see playing is surrounded by ppl... but those are not hard facts

to the guy above me: yes aoc will have a very hard time when WAR/Aion/WotlK come out.. we will see then.. for now fc can polish the game before WAR gets out.. (ow and i dont play aoc) and yes eve has around 250k subs so i should have said over 250k for number 2 spot

Big gratz to Funcom! 700k created accounts is awesome! True, we don't know yet how many will stick around, but I think most MMOGs have their retention numbers in roughly the same area, so they'll be doing well in any case.

Originally posted by tkobo

I guess its possible, i mean they could be counting people who signed up for beta accounts also.

Id find a number telling how many accounts are still active paying accounts far more interesting, especially if it was from some place they wouldnt be able to just shovel hype.Like a stock holders report,or some such....

I'd like to see this also, as myself and a handful of friends where I live purchases, played for 2-3 weeks, and unsubbed.  I'm not going to hate on AoC...we just found it..."meh" at the present time.

Hope it does grow and improve into something less "meh", so I have something to come back to.

700k bought it, but a MMO dont need sales to survive, they need month to month subscribers.   That they will never publish it.

Originally posted by khartman2005

Originally posted by Vortigon

Funny, I can't find a single PC gaming chart with AOC still near the top.  Guess they are referring to old charts to make it sound better.