General Discussion

Originally posted by elocke

For those who think this data was used from only those in the first month, I ask that we look at the day this info was released to us and how it wasn't released mid June when they knew who had bought the game. For what I can tell, by stating these numbers on June 30, over a month past launch, when people have resubbed.

I have resubbed so mine is one of the numbers.

Its a collection of data from launch to the end of the free month. So it is only based off units registered, not active subs (because if it was active subs, they would have said active subs)

By the way the first billing from aoc is june 20th. This annoucements is posted on june 30th 2008.

What now funcom haters?

Originally posted by Warhamerr

By the way the first billing from aoc is june 20th. This annoucements is posted on june 30th 2008.

What now funcom haters?

Don't encourage them.....

They'll never stop.

I really love how this company spins numbers on this game. this response soley on what funcom posted.

as many have pointed out REGISTERED boxes means absolutely nothing, except to maybe the poor stockholders that are still praying...........lol

700k registered boxes once the free time is up will thin down to nearly nothing in terms of numbers that really matter, say a quarter mill even, that being generous.

Funcom can subtract my brothers and his buddies which makes it actually 698k registered users, they didnt sub.

Originally posted by Warhamerr

By the way the first billing from aoc is june 20th. This annoucements is posted on june 30th 2008.

What now funcom haters?

There is a reason they did not specificly mention ACTIVE subscribtion nerd. All their press release says is they have sold over 700k boxes and people have activated, but NO mention of how many have a ACVITE subscribtion.

WoW has 9 million ACTIVE subscribtions, you can underestamate and say Blizzard has SOLD 2-3 times that many boxes.

You guys really need to understand PR people are no diffrent then used car salesmen. As most of the fanboi's posts show it seems they did a good job making people believe their numbers meant something they were not.

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Originally posted by graill

I really love how this company spins numbers on this game. this response soley on what funcom posted.

as many have pointed out REGISTERED boxes means absolutely nothing, except to maybe the poor stockholders that are still praying...........lol

700k registered boxes once the free time is up will thin down to nearly nothing in terms of numbers that really matter, say a quarter mill even, that being generous.

Funcom can subtract my brothers and his buddies which makes it actually 698k registered users, they didnt sub.

 

it does mean something, its just sales numbers but presented in a different way, its funny to see how many ppl are screaming that fc is "lying" and hyping... every company does it, have u ever seen a press release stating they lost a lot of subs and that the game stinks? - get over it

I'm sure if Funcom has sold 700 thousand copies then they would have said "700k copies sold".  Saying 700k accounts created is about as concrete as when Turbine said LOTRO reached the milestone of 4 million characters created.

4 million and 700 thousand are both impressive numbers, but neither of which paints the truth of the matter. 

I think I recall Fucom saying they originally shipped 500k units and currently updated that they shipped 1 million.  If that is the truth I would expect the number of servers to have at least doubled. 

Originally posted by Draccan

Originally posted by Ephimero

Proof that timing and hype is almost everything that matters in this market. Grats on that FC.

 

I wonder how many of those accounts are active today!!

I am sure they are counting alpha, beta, closed beta, tech test, and open beta accounts as well. Ha.

Originally posted by Draccan

Originally posted by Ephimero

Proof that timing and hype is almost everything that matters in this market. Grats on that FC.

 

I wonder how many of those accounts are active today!!

i was thinking the same thing

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Originally posted by Shohadaku

With numbers Funcom boasts there is NO EXCUSE now for not getting the bugs and issues fixed IMMEDIATLY.

They got the cash now. They better sort things out or that subscription number is going to plummet.

Game is the most buggy product I've every purchased.  Worse then anything I've ever played from SOE - I boycot SOE games!

I've tried a lot of video drivers lately in attempt to see if anything would reduce the Funcom induced graphical glitches to no avail.  The game has gotten less stable and I'm recieving more critical errors now then I had when it launched. 

This is what Funcoms Age of Conan looks like:  http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mindspatpicture006tw3.png

Before someone asks, XP 32bit, e8400, 2x 1gb ddr3 1600, evga 8800gt akimbo sc; 177.40 drivers.

Out of all the driver changes I've done over the last week I've determined that the 177.40's rock, but they only do so on anything other then AoC.  In fact, nothing is availble, not even from Funcom, to resolve this issue:  http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mindspatpicture006tw3.png