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• • WAR passes 750,000 mark in players

  • Originally posted by ste2000
    

    Also from the Gamasutra article:
    
    "Mythic has also said that in its first week the game became EA's most pre-ordered PC title, and claims WAR was also the fastest-selling new MMO of all time, with 1.5 million units sold to retailers in launch territories."
    
    So after the first month looks like half of the players who bought the box didn't subscribed, still 750.000 subs are no bad but losing 50% of potential customers in the first month is not a good indicator.
    This game has the fun factor but for a short time.
    The real test if after 3 months, when people get bored of grinding scenarios.
    
    If they still can keep 750.000 or improve this number, than hats off to Mythic, but I doubt it.

    
     

    Retailers, not consumers.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 11:46 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR passes 750,000 mark in players

  • Originally posted by Newhopes
    

    Originally posted by JonMichael
    

    Originally posted by Newhopes
    

    Originally posted by Satarious
    

    Who was it that said that WAR would fail after initial launch?  You're looking rather foolish right now, don't ya think? ;)

    
     

    Don't know where you pulled that number from the last official number i've seen is 500k and all indications say it's been loseing players over the last few weeks.

    
     

    Link?  Or are you relying on XFire numbers?

    
     

    You need to be blind not to see the drop,like right now karak eight peaks is sitting at med/high at the start of prime time a week ago there would have been queues of a few hundred both sides to get in. Unless they have increased to pop caps they has been a sharp decline in numbers.

    And you know for sure they haven't increased the pop caps?
     

    DOOOM and GLOOOOM!

     

     

  • Posted: 10/10/08 11:45 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR passes 750,000 mark in players

  • Originally posted by AstralGeth
    

    Originally posted by JonMichael
    

    Originally posted by AstralGeth
    

    Originally posted by leowolff
    

     Source:

    http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20600%20target=

    And Mark Jacobs answer (Mythic VP):

    ....

    As always, this is only the first step but WAR has, as of now, exceeded my initial projections for WAR when we were first acquired by EA.

    ...

    
    

     

    Glad to hear they beat the projections they had for the game 2 years ago. Obviously they didn't meet more recent projections considering 1/2 the boxes they shipped are still sitting on shelves.

    
    Link to the news article please?  Any proof at all of this?

    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=239033

    "Mythic Entertainment has announced that its fantasy MMO, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has shipped 1.5 million copies to retailers in preparation for its global release on Thursday. "

     

    And the link to the article that states half of them are still sitting on the shelves?
     

    Just because they have an estimated 750k of subscribers at the moment does not mean the rest of them are sitting on the shelves.

  • Posted: 10/10/08 11:42 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR passes 750,000 mark in players

  • Originally posted by AstralGeth
    

    Originally posted by leowolff
    

     Source:

    http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20600%20target=

    And Mark Jacobs answer (Mythic VP):

    ....

    As always, this is only the first step but WAR has, as of now, exceeded my initial projections for WAR when we were first acquired by EA.

    ...

    
    

     

    Glad to hear they beat the projections they had for the game 2 years ago. Obviously they didn't meet more recent projections considering 1/2 the boxes they shipped are still sitting on shelves.

    
    Link to the news article please?  Any proof at all of this?

     

  • Posted: 10/10/08 11:31 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR passes 750,000 mark in players

  • Originally posted by Newhopes
    

    Originally posted by Satarious
    

    Who was it that said that WAR would fail after initial launch?  You're looking rather foolish right now, don't ya think? ;)

    
     

    Don't know where you pulled that number from the last official number i've seen is 500k and all indications say it's been loseing players over the last few weeks.

    
     

    Link?  Or are you relying on XFire numbers?

  • Posted: 10/10/08 11:28 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)