AOC officially a Hit

Maximilian

They've shipped 1 million units now.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=190451

Ciaran500

Only 9 more to go

smellslikeshoes

Pretty sure that would probably make it number 2 to wow already.

mayordenis

guild wars would be number 2 i think

smellslikeshoes

mayordenis wrote: »

guild wars would be number 2 i think

Having not seen any recent figures, I can't say for definite one way or the other, I'm sure there has been more copies of Guild wars sold, but because everyone who has bought AOC has bought it pretty recently and most people haven't gotten sick of it yet its safe enough to assume that a good amount of those 1 million units are active game accounts.

Ivan

A) WoW is surely a long way from 10 million subscribers atm with a massive ban wave gone out, right before the launch of Age of Conan.

5.5 million of WoW's 10 million subscribers are from the Asian market. A market funcom has not really much interest in.

C) This is 2 weeks from launch. WoW sold 250,000 units for its European launch and then struggled for many months to break 1 million.

D) The real test with Age of Conan will be how many subscribers it has after the free month. As that is when many MMO's begin the decline into obscurity.

superfly

theres a free mag coming with this months games mags called what mmo and they have an article on the various mmo and there subscribers count
WOW 9 million
Guild Wars 3 million
Lineage 2 1.3 million
Final Fantasy XI 500,000
Eve Online 200,000
LOTRO 200,000
Everquest II 175,000
Star Wars Galaxies 170,000
City of Heroes/Villains 160,000
Ultima Online 140,000
Dark Age of Camelot 100,000
Dungeons and Dragons 100,000
Tabula Rasa 75,000
Matrix 30,000
Anarchy online 20,000
World WarII Online 11,000
Asherons Call 10,000
A Tale in the Desert 2,000

there was other games but the subs were unknown such as Archlord, RF Online and Fury

Jim

Ivan wrote: »

A) WoW is surely a long way from 10 million subscribers atm with a massive ban wave gone out, right before the launch of Age of Conan.

5.5 million of WoW's 10 million subscribers are from the Asian market. A market funcom has not really much interest in.

C) This is 2 weeks from launch. WoW sold 250,000 units for its European launch and then struggled for many months to break 1 million.

D) The real test with Age of Conan will be how many subscribers it has after the free month. As that is when many MMO's begin the decline into obscurity.

But you have to also take into account the amount of people completly uninterested in the MMO genre before WoW was released and now.

But yea, seems pretty successful so far. We'll see after the free month.

MooseJam

well they say they've shipped 1 million not sold one million so they could all be sitting on shelves no

KoKane

superfly wrote: »

theres a free mag coming with this months games mags called what mmo and they have an article on the various mmo and there subscribers count

Ultima Online 140,000

woooo