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Scions of fate has 70 million users?
RedwoodSap
Member Posts: 1,235
Holy Cow Batman!!
People talk about WoW's success, how did this super successful game fly under the radar. It must be earning billions.
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In reality, the millionish figure they give is the number of avatars created, not the number of paying or even total active subscriptions.
No it isn't. You just got fooled by Asian way of "counting" their customers.
Same as RO that supposedly has what? 56 millions?
Fact is they either count accounts ever created (so not active subs), character ever created or some other borked up stat.
Not to mention that being a f2p game, it is kinda hard to count. I mean it cost nothing to make an account and it stay active all the time in theory, but they are making 0 money from those too.
So.... borked up. like most of those games' counting is.
"If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"
I bet half of the 70 million are bots.
Stupid advertising actually.. its like 1000PMPO vs 1000RMS
All canceled. Waiting on Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning.
Yeah, Asian MMOs really use trumped up stats to gain popularity.
2 accounts they are counting are mine and I havent played for a couple months. When I first heard about it I played it, stopped playing then later decided to play again but forgot my password so I made a new account. I played accumulatively for about 5 days.
When it comes to Asian free to download MMOs don't trust the numbers they give.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Maybe we should make a new thing about how many hours a month people play games, then we can equally compare free to play games and the ones that cost money
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
if I were to kill a titan tomorrow and no CCP employees showed up to say grats I would petition it.
Waiting for: the next MMO that lets me make this macro
if hp < 30 then CastSpell("heal") SpellTargetUnit("player") else CastSpell("smite") end
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.
In short if you have time left on your account and have not bothered to "cancel" the account then your counted, if your acount has no time left is banned or canceled then your not counted. Simple and straight up. Slightly different in Asia though, there your counted if you have played within the last 30 days (pay per hour).
Subscriptions in Asia cost next to nothing, either free with item shop or then like 10c/hour played thats why asian mmo's get on such huge numbers...I remember Lineage2 asia reporting 20 million subscribers.
Lineage does well but not that good.
As of January 2007
Lineage - 1,408,170 subs worldwide
Lineage 2 - 1,036,303 subs worldwide (105,039 in US + EU)