Age of Conan

Originally posted by Azrile

I doubt Eve has more subscribers than AoC though.  Eve has a very high appeal to internet geeks and is more hardcore then mainstream ( aoc has a box at best buy, eve doesn't).

The type of players to have xfire are much more likely to know about EVE.  Also Eve player continually 'recruit' players to post on forums and get stuff like xfire.  It's their only marketing.

Eve has 250,000 subscribers.  They are the only major MMO that openly reports their server statistics.

My 60 day game card just ran out on AoC ( I cancelled my subscription 5 days after using the game time card lol ) I'd expect AoC's sub numbers to drop even more once people's time cards run out, let alone the fact that WAR is just around the corner.

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Originally posted by Thunderous

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Originally posted by Azrile

I doubt Eve has more subscribers than AoC though.  Eve has a very high appeal to internet geeks and is more hardcore then mainstream ( aoc has a box at best buy, eve doesn't).
The type of players to have xfire are much more likely to know about EVE.  Also Eve player continually 'recruit' players to post on forums and get stuff like xfire.  It's their only marketing.

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Eve has 250,000 subscribers.  They are the only major MMO that openly reports their server statistics.

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Originally posted by Midnitte

 

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Originally posted by Thunderous

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Originally posted by Azrile

 

I doubt Eve has more subscribers than AoC though.  Eve has a very high appeal to internet geeks and is more hardcore then mainstream ( aoc has a box at best buy, eve doesn't).
The type of players to have xfire are much more likely to know about EVE.  Also Eve player continually 'recruit' players to post on forums and get stuff like xfire.  It's their only marketing.

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Eve has 250,000 subscribers.  They are the only major MMO that openly reports their server statistics.

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Speaking of eve, its almost like they're developing SWG in reverse (in that its focused on space combat, and later they want to introduce being able to land on planets), with the success so far I expect it to gain alot more popularity among games like WoW. :)
(I just wish it was easier) >:(

 

Eve is easy..... its just also risky, and has a high learning curve.

Originally posted by mscouts77

Eve online now has both more users playing a day, AND total hours played per day

(this is ONLY counting XFire users)

Eve Rank #23 with 3711 users for 12161 hours

AoC Rank #24 with 3438 users for 11801 hours

Stats figured for Aug 19th

/flame on

What's there to flame about? Eve is the best game on the market IMHO.Besides if you want to be technical , there isn't a game on the market you'll be playing along side more people in , Even WOW.

Eve has had 42,000 players in ONE game world online at one time. Most you will get in WoW is around 5000 in one world at any time. And even then, you will get instanced if too many players are in one area.

Eve has been growing since launch and that has not stopped. AoC is dying already.

Take a look at this chart from April 2008, from mmogchart.com:

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html

Eve is doing better then Everquest 1 and 2 and Lord of the rings online.
Also Eve does a lot of marketing I see Eve online banners everywhere including this site.

I don't play Eve by the way; to boring for me.

Hi All, I've been reading your comments on AoC for a while now, I think it's time to join in.

Latest update on the Xfire stats....

AOC #28
LotRO #29

Dam, one spot...however judging from the recent patch and lack of any critical fixes, give it a couple more days and LotRO > AOC...

Couple of posters brought up some myths about EVE and its playerbase.

Most of us are older folks actually, and I'm willing to be the median age is one of the highest. As such, most of us could give a flip about crossfire, that's a tool for the younger crowd, so IMO I think AOC would have a higher percentage of players using crossfire than EVE.

Second, while CCP states the number of players with multiple accounts is like 19% (which even I doubt) it certainly isn't everyone.

I do have two accounts, and I play on one box.  I am a typical multi-account player and I don't use crossfire.

But I will say this.  If you go start a character today in EVE, you will find the new player starting area (and chat channel) full of people, systems will have many players in local, and this will be true for more systems in Empire/High Sec that you visit.  MIners still complain that asteroid belts are overfarmed and its hard to find good ore.

Contrast that with my final log in to AOC last week.  The home cities were devoid of players, nary a sole in sight.  Corridors that I once had trouble navigating were empty and lifeless, and this at primetime on one of the more popular servers.

The low level player areas (20-40) were worse, the towns were almost empty, saw maybe 1 or 2 people running around them, far different from a month ago when there would be 20-30 people around.

People can take Funcom's word about their player base being 400K, but my own experience leads me to believe the number is far lower than that.  Evidence from sources like MMOChart and Crossfire only serve to reinforce my opinion.