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How many sold copies
Aceundor
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Hi
Does anyone have some info on how many players/sold copies that DDO has?
Thanks
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
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That info wont be released for awhile. The only time a company releases that info is if they ended up breaking records, like WoW.
I can say the server i play on is jam packed. I dont think DDO's population will ever come close to WoW, but it is extremely competitive with the other MMO's out there like EQ2. It is definately not a ghost town like SWG.
Here is my estimate:
There are 20 servers. Each supports 500+ players at a time. Usually about 1/4 of the server population is playing at a time (at peak times 2/3). That makes 40k players.
Could be I'm a couple of tens of thousands off but I think it has not passed the 100k mark.
Errr. no you're quite far off actually, each server can support far more than 500 players at a time, they are actually quite capable of hosting 3500+ players, they were gonna cap at 1000 but changed their minds. so at approximately 3500 active on a server at peak times, there would be about 14000 player accounts per server, times 20 servers that's about 280,000, or more probably about 250,000, which is decent for a new MMO to start.
The inns of the server I play on are PACKED whenever I go into them, some of them having 4 or 5 instances of the inn so there are lots of people playing at any one time. Sorry but you're 40K player estimate was just ridiculous.
I think there's probably around 40-50k. I doubt they are going to release any numbers, since by any measure, the numbers don't look so great (even CoH had more than that at launch).
Errr. no you're quite far off actually, each server can support far more than 500 players at a time, they are actually quite capable of hosting 3500+ players, they were gonna cap at 1000 but changed their minds. so at approximately 3500 active on a server at peak times, there would be about 14000 player accounts per server, times 20 servers that's about 280,000, or more probably about 250,000, which is decent for a new MMO to start.
The inns of the server I play on are PACKED whenever I go into them, some of them having 4 or 5 instances of the inn so there are lots of people playing at any one time. Sorry but you're 40K player estimate was just ridiculous.
You are so wrong.
At peak times there is at least 1/2 of a sever population playing. I've never seen a full server nor anywhere near 3500 people logged in.
I was counting low times since that is easier to estimate. If you ever do a people search you will find that there is only a few hundred players at 5 am. And so I think your overestiamting.
As to this game having sub-par subscription number is also BS.
Even if DDO was the worst game ever the brand name will assure that it sells a large number of boxes, certainly better than City of Heroes or RF Online.
Hi guys
Thanks for your innsight and replies
I agree that most companies do not release figures unless they are breaking records. Thats why I posted my question here
. Antother element is the number of sold boxes vs peak concurrent users. A MMO should want the PCU to be as high as possible.
As for the server estimates I think your discussion to be quite interresting. The way of telling if DDO is a sucsess is if the servers become full. I remeber the first days of WOW relase in Europe and I logged in on the evening on the first day and there were allready some full servers and waiting time.
So to be realistisc, DDO will probably not go skyrocketing. But lets hope it grows steadily. 250K players is a decent figure.
Originally posted by BishopB:
Are a lot of the trolls just angry kids with old gaming hardware?
UK Full Price PC sales charts have DDO listed as number 4, that's not great as WoW is number 6.
Of course there's only a few hundred on at 5 am, it's freaking 5 am. Even WoW's servers will be near empty at that time of the day. It has been show that at most 1/4 of all players will be logged in and online during peak times, that's why you measure at peak times. The reason the servers are never full is that unlike the cluster**** that was the WoW launch, turbine released the server names in advance, so people could tell there friends what server they were joining before the game went live, which meant the server populations have a better initial distribution. WoW's lauch was a disaster in that area, players BEGGED on the forums for them to release the server names and they didn't. Instead everyone had friends joining the servers they had picked and that led to severe overcrowding and their wonderful queues.
When I do a player search at primetime I see a couple hundred of ONE CLASS on at a time. The servers are plenty busy.