WAR (Warhammer Online)

EA has reported 800k registered users with 1.2 million copies sold during their investors conference call.

Interesting but I'm not convinced.

www.marketwatch.com/news/story/EA-Reports-Second-Quarter-Fiscal/story.aspx

You arent convice because you think this is Enron?

Registered users - people with a registered account

Subs - people with a registered account that are paying subscription fees.

Please learn your terms and dont mix and match them to suite your agenda.  Its good they have 800k registered accounts but I'd like to know some sort of round about on subscriptions that are being retained.

Originally posted by banthis

Registered users - people with a registered account

Subs - people with a registered account that are paying subscription fees.

 

Please learn your terms and dont mix and match them to suite your agenda.  Its good they have 800k registered accounts but I'd like to know some sort of round about on subscriptions that are being retained.

You should read the source material that the OP provides, eh?

"Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, an MMO from EA's Mythic Entertainment studio, sold 1.2 million copies in the quarter -- with over 800 thousand current players. "

Cheers!

Originally posted by Blodpls

EA has reported 800k registered users with 1.2 million copies sold during their investors conference call.

Interesting but I'm not convinced.

www.marketwatch.com/news/story/EA-Reports-Second-Quarter-Fiscal/story.aspx

 

Why do you need to be convinced? Will you only play if theres a certain number of players playing all together? You do realize everyone plays on different servers right?

Does this matter? Not really.

What registered users means is that they are including people with subs and people who just bought the game and are on their free trial.

So of 1.2mil they have 800k, 2/3 retention rate.  Not bad for their first 6 weeks.  As long as the number steadily goes up they are in good shape.

Originally posted by Blodpls

EA has reported 800k registered users with 1.2 million copies sold during their investors conference call.

Interesting but I'm not convinced.

www.marketwatch.com/news/story/EA-Reports-Second-Quarter-Fiscal/story.aspx

 

Um.. so that means it has only gained 50k registered users in the last month?  it was at 750k around the 20th of September

Also, they did not say subscribers, they said 'players'.

Registered users include

1. People who bought the box, played the free month, and then cancelled their account
2.  People who preordered the box, played the head start until the grace period was over (sept 18th) and then never bought the box.

I like to l isten in on earnings calls.

800k registered users is the number of people that have nibbled the dangling carrot. It doesn't give a clear indication of how many subscriptions they have.

1.2mil copies sold is impressive even if it includes sales to retail organizations. They means the market is also investing in the success of the product.

All in all I'd say its good news for the game. Things are great as far as gameplay goes, and I've only known them to get better in the few weeks I've been playing.

Cheers

Strange indeed. But very possible

800K "registred" users and 1.2 M "sales".-----> So 400 K boxes were not registred?

That means 400K boxes linger in the shops. EA sold them but the shops still have them in stock as these users are not registred.

And that 800K "registred" are the 750K "accounts MJ speak aboout on Oct 10th

So between Oct 10th and today 50K new "accounts" were added. Sounds logical.

But they don't speak of active subscriptions.

So I guess the active numbver of players would be 50% of the registred users (if taking X fire and the number of low/low servers).

BTW EA figures are terrible: 300 million dollars loss ....

Ough.