Age of Conan

Originally posted by beauxaj

 

Originally posted by openedge1

 

Originally posted by beauxaj

 

Have to agree about some liking it and others not, It all comes down to personal choice.  I do have a question about the "blockbuster preorder record"  Are they only counting  it as a  first release record? Because  iirc when  Burning crusade came out it was pretty ugly, something like 2.5 million sold  immediately and no copies on the shelves for about a week.  I don't even know the numbers on original WoW's sales but the fact that they had so many players and not enough servers means they had a pretty big launch as well. If AoC is the new record, you just gotta love marketing spin

 

 

That is an expansion that came out 2 years after the game had been established...

 

No...that is not what they are comparing it to..

WoW had about 250,000 boxes sold...and that is what they are comparing it to...

LOTRO did about 200,000 sales in 6 months...lol?

No...this was a pretty big sale...and if they retain even half of that in scrips...they will be successful.

Nevermind, I was hoping for some true facts and just got a bit more opinion so I looked it up myself.

 

And it was JUST a preorder record in which they weren't counting BC preorders like I asked.   Its a marketing trick but 700k preorders is huge for a first release, I wonder what the final numbers will be when its all said and done.

Oh, and your numbers....WoW had 240,000 boxes sold on launch day... thats cash in hand, big difference between shelling out 5 bucks to get your name on a preorder slip and the 50 dollars for the full game.   12 hours into launch day  there were  over 100,000 people online crashing their 40 plus servers,  48 hours later they had added 40 more servers and there were 350,000 people playing.... 

LOTRO sold more than 200k boxes in the first few days, If you recall there were many Lotro/VG posts that mentioned their numbers.

 

 

Who cares?  Buy the game if you want to try it, if not thats fine too.  But which company sells more all depends on how well their marketing department kept the gamers interested.  If gameplay gets out that the game itself is amazing, you will see alot more sales...which is what I am hoping for myself.

I'm an "other" voter. I came from another genre.

I'm a veteran of over 20 MMORPGs (including every single one on this list; I only counted the ones I played for 3+ months), and I came out of retirement at the behest of my old guild to try Age of Conan.

Why? The hope of more interesting play than "Click... wait... loot. click... wait... loot". So far the game seems structured to fit my needs nicely.

So far.

20+ MMOs have left me somewhat jaded and pessimistic. I expect the worst, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

Originally posted by grimmbot

I'm an "other" voter. I came from another genre.

I'm a veteran of over 20 MMORPGs (including every single one on this list; I only counted the ones I played for 3+ months), and I came out of retirement at the behest of my old guild to try Age of Conan.

Why? The hope of more interesting play than "Click... wait... loot. click... wait... loot". So far the game seems structured to fit my needs nicely.

So far.

20+ MMOs have left me somewhat jaded and pessimistic. I expect the worst, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

So by your tag below your post, i saw  you were on "Hiatus from AoC" does this mean its not really fitting your needs and if not, why?  I know a fellow that was very much like you, and he was all excited about AoC before it came out, and not that its out, he doesn't want to play and is looking for the "Next Big Thing in MMO's" again.

I look at these results and think they're meaningless because WOW's subs will keep on rising, specially after the expansion and AOC will most likely see a drop in subs from the 6 month point till it dies like everyother mmorpg.