Age of Conan

Originally posted by Vicksburg

Guys wake up:

Here are the the sales of amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1217633695/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=229575&bbn=229575&rh=n%3A468642%2Cn%3A229575&page=1

Age of Conan is already WEEKS out of the top 50 of PC sales.

I believe last time I saw it was on place 72.

Complete crash in sales and complete crash in Xfire (from 60.000 to 13.000 in 6 weeks time).

 

Xfire is hours in game, with 9k odd players at launch and now 5k players obviously some have gone ZORNDORF.

Amazon is not the be all and end all, many countries that have amazon end in countries abreviation and not ".com" ".com" doesnt take the stats for all countries - if you can prove otherwise great.. go ahead.

in other news...

“We were tremendously pleased with server performance during launch week,” Erling informed me.  “We kept bracing for what we thought was inevitable – the server crash,” admitted Rick, “but it never happened.”  At present time, I was told that 700,000 accounts were registered, logged in and characters created.  Far exceeding their expectations for the game."

interview here from E3 update at mmorpg.com

With all the copies sitting on shelves, maybe the game price will drop down around 20?

If so, I think I would grab a copy and play for a month. I mean, i've heard the first 20 levels make a pretty good single player rpg. 20 bucks is a good price for something like that I think...

well I just grabbed 2 copies and killed 2 station passes.

Originally posted by Hrica

well I just grabbed 2 copies and killed 2 station passes.

That wasn't bright.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Vicksburg

Guys wake up:

Here are the the sales of amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1217633695/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=229575&bbn=229575&rh=n%3A468642%2Cn%3A229575&page=1

Age of Conan is already WEEKS out of the top 50 of PC sales.

I believe last time I saw it was on place 72.

Complete crash in sales and complete crash in Xfire (from 60.000 to 13.000 in 6 weeks time).

 

 

Xfire is hours in game, with 9k odd players at launch and now 5k players obviously some have gone ZORNDORF.

Amazon is not the be all and end all, many countries that have amazon end in countries abreviation and not ".com" ".com" doesnt take the stats for all countries - if you can prove otherwise great.. go ahead.

in other news...

“We were tremendously pleased with server performance during launch week,” Erling informed me.  “We kept bracing for what we thought was inevitable – the server crash,” admitted Rick, “but it never happened.”  At present time, I was told that 700,000 accounts were registered, logged in and characters created.  Far exceeding their expectations for the game."

interview here from E3 update at mmorpg.com

You are quoting the friggin man i charge as proof? What a sad sad day in fanboy land.

I hate to say it but Avery is right for once in that AoC did outsell WoW at release by double.  WoW sold about 350k thier first week but after the initial sales sold out Blizzard refused to del;iver any more boxes for months until they had their servers under control.   After a few months WoW only had 400-500 total population about the same as EQ2 before EQ2 nose dived to under 200k while WoW just went up and up.

But there is one point Avery will advois as his bosses at Funcom will not let him talk about it thats retention rate.  Funcom may have sold 700k accts but how many are left?  50k?  100k?  200k?  I have never seen a game with a worse retention rate than  AoC.  Of the 40 friends I know who tried AoC only 3 (one has cancelled) have active accountsthe two left are considering quitting as they have no guildmates or friends left.  Of all the guilds I know who moved to AoC which is 5 or 6 everyone has quit the game.  I have never seen people quit a game faster.  Its to bad AoC is nto a bad game.  Its not a good game but its certainly not bad.  Its hust a game that lacks substance, skill and replayability.  More like a single player console.

But even if AoC will be down under 50k subs ina few months it does nto mean they did bad.  If they sold a millon boxes thats 50 millon minus their costs and retailers and whatever they pay Avery to write his amusing  propganda pieces thats at least 10-15 millon back.  Thats not bad for a failed game.

And Funcom has been working on a new MMO too since 2005, so I'm sure they are ready to start hypin that MMO up in a similar, bloated fashion :P

Originally posted by Imjin

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Vicksburg

Guys wake up:

Here are the the sales of amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1217633695/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=229575&bbn=229575&rh=n%3A468642%2Cn%3A229575&page=1

Age of Conan is already WEEKS out of the top 50 of PC sales.

I believe last time I saw it was on place 72.

Complete crash in sales and complete crash in Xfire (from 60.000 to 13.000 in 6 weeks time).

 

 

Xfire is hours in game, with 9k odd players at launch and now 5k players obviously some have gone ZORNDORF.

Amazon is not the be all and end all, many countries that have amazon end in countries abreviation and not ".com" ".com" doesnt take the stats for all countries - if you can prove otherwise great.. go ahead.

in other news...

“We were tremendously pleased with server performance during launch week,” Erling informed me.  “We kept bracing for what we thought was inevitable – the server crash,” admitted Rick, “but it never happened.”  At present time, I was told that 700,000 accounts were registered, logged in and characters created.  Far exceeding their expectations for the game."

interview here from E3 update at mmorpg.com

 

You are quoting the friggin man i charge as proof? What a sad sad day in fanboy land.

The bit in red is the quote of the reporter Caroline for mmorpg.com, and those guys told her that. If true its a number given to the public most recently. But you know you always have xfire (9k people and now 5k people logging hours since launch) and amazon.com (not worldwide stats) to rest your mind every night before bed.

I for one am happy in game on a busy server.

EDIT: about the woW part, AoC also holds the record for number of pre-orders too. And all I was doing was replying to the OP who brought the topic up. Its not fair to compare WoW:BC as it released some time after the original.

What's the point of you bringing up AoC outsold WoW at launch?

Even a fanboy would have enough common sense to realize that Funcom have Blizzard to thank for the success of the initial box sales and only themselves to blame for such a poor retention rate after two months.