We already know that Age of Conanenjoyed healthy preorder and launch sales, but has its momentum carried over into the summer months? According to Age of Conan’s developer-publisher team, Funcom and Eidos, it most certainly has.
Age of Conan has been one of the top-selling PC games in every territory it's been released in thus far, and it was the best-selling PC game in several European countries during the month of June. While the exact number of up-to-date worldwide sales have yet to be compiled due to the different ways they’re tracked in each country, Funcom has revealed that over 700,000 accounts have been created. Nice job, guys!
“We are incredibly pleased to see Age of Conan turning into an MMO phenomenon,” said Gaute Godager, Game Director on Age of Conan. “As an MMO company we know that a good start is just the beginning for a virtual world. All we care about now is to make Age of Conan into an even better game, and we have extensive plans to ensure that Age of Conan remains a top MMO alternative for many years to come.”
Most of those “extensive plans” Godgar mentioned were revealed earlier this month, and I have to say, if these sorts of big updates become a regular thing, Age of Conan could very well secure its newfound position as the second largest subscription-based MMO. It seems pretty doubtful that it could ever really challenge World of Warcraft’s more than 10 million strong player base, but it has at least shown that new MMOs can go up against Blizzard’s behemoth and still be successful.
I've been playing since launch, but like most MMOs the end game just isn't designed for fun... so I'll probably only be around for another month. Just... never read their forums. Dear lord that place is a cesspool.
Anyone else reached end game and becoming a little underwhelmed?
I, too, am waiting for Warhammer. One, because it just seems more fun, going by everything I've read so far. Two, because it'll be that long before I can upgrade my computer to run either one at decent settings.
Been playing since launch here, definitely a must buy if you are an old school MMO'er like myself. I can't really say why you should buy this game, it's just....good. Maybe it's the combo system or the fact that at lvl 20 the Necro can have 8 pets at once...such a good good feeling.
As far as Warhammer is concerned. I've been in beta since about October-ish of last year. The game itself is fun but it has a LONG way to go and still needs a LOT of polish. The servers were just brought down the other day to prepare for the next phase of beta testing, I think this is where the game will either be a hit or not, next upate is focused on guilds and large scale wars etc..we'll see.
This game is REALLY nice on the eyes, but has so many gameplay issues, balance issues, and general UI problems, and TONS of bugs, that I doubt it can stay at #2 for long. Also, look at their data, I bet I count as an active account:
I bought the game
signed up an account
canceled my subscription
which ends on July 5th.
It seems to me, as a gamer in that world, that enough people may share my viewpoint that I would like to see where they stand in a couple months.
Age of Conan isn't a bad game. Not great, but not bad at all. Playing a melee oriented class really keeps you more active in the game with combat.
P.S. With only 700k boxes sold, it's technically impossible for them to be the second largest MMO out there. A couple of chinese MMOs have more than a million subscriptions.
It's a totally unpolished piece of pooey poo. Nobody would put up with this level of inattentive design in a single player game. It's a step backwards to a time when MMOs didn't place playability as their salient concern, but rather how many half-implemented features you could list on the case.
This game is just the latest fad. Everyone is jumping on board because it has so much attention, but already everyone is figuring out it really is a rather crap MMO. People are just desperate for something other than goddam WoW. I'll probably give it a try too, but really this game is rather crap. I still stick to my prediction that this time next year it will have less subscribers than LotR:O.
Hang on, I'm confused. How is this the second largest subscription based MMO? LotR:O is up to 1.5 million, Lineage 2 is on a million, or FFXI is on 1.4 million.
It's good to see WoW still has people blinded to even try new games. As bad as that game is now, just wait til they are on expansion 10. (yes, they are planning 10)
WoW offends me. AoC is at least NOT WoW, like WAR will be WoW. LotRO is Tolkien overload, but at least it's not WoW.
As for subscriber numbers. I'd bet money that Lineage, LotRO, FFXI, etc are well under 700k active subscriptions. Now number of accounts created over time, I'm sure they are well over 1 mil each, but honestly FFXI? even LotRO doesn't look as interesting as AoC. And it's good to see an MMO going for the mature audience, finally.
Sry, but even RuneScape has more than 1 million current subscribers (and 130 million created accounts). LotRO has like 600k (but this number isn't up-to-date). So, AoC has to be #3 or #4.
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