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Status of the launch.. game is on track to at launch have the highest pre-order number for any MMO
Lottobarn
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Status of the launch
Market update
• The Collector’s Edition of the Age of Conan game is now sold out in all markets. Over 110.000 copies were produced. The CE edition is also sold out in most retail chains, but the CE version may still be found on shelves in some stores.
• Funcom estimates the day-one ship in (the
number of boxes sent to retail) of the Age of Conan game to be around 700.000. The Company underlines that there is high uncertainty regarding the sell through speed of this day-one shipment.
• The pre-order program has continued to develop very positively. Based on input from some major retail-chains and combined with the simultaneous multi-language launch in both Europe and North America, Funcom has reason to believe that the game is on track to at launch have the highest pre-order number for any MMO ever. The preorders
will represent a significant proportion of the day 1 ship-in.
• Funcom has made an additional order for servers, increasing the size of the server park for the Age of Conan game, to cater for 100.000 more subscribers for the launch period, under a set of assumptions for playtime per subscriber, number of subscribers per server, number of subscribers per game clients sold etc. The server parks will now be dimensioned to handle 600.000-700.000 subscribers (Not concurrent users).
• Since January 2008 the Age of Conan site had more than six million unique visitors according to Google Analytics. During last week the site had 1.1 million unique visitors.
• The first review for the game gives it a 9 out of 10 score, and it is Game Reactor, the Nordic region´s largest gaming magazine, which gives the score.
Launch update
• Funcom has successfully launched the Age of Conan game for around 100.000 early access players on May 17th. Almost all the early access players logged in during the first night. The launch was conducted without major technical issues.
• The full US launch is planned for May 20th and the full European launch is planned for May 23rd.
• The DirectX 10 version of the game will not ship with the initial launch. The DirectX 10 version of the game will be premiered at the German Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, August 20 – 24.
Comments
Seems like Funcom is gonna do it right this time around launching an MMO. Cheers to AoC!
I Been Saying This From Day 1. AoC is Going To Top The Big MMORPGS. But You Have The Fans On other Games Trying to Bash This Game. There Is No Stoping Conan
And Don't Forget Xbox360 Is Coming Out On 9/00/08..More Money To Funcom And More Fame
Source?
dude it's almost like u are offended by this information..
bias post is bias.
and i count a 6 hour delay on EA server opening as a pretty major technical hitch.
/battons down hatches against inevitable incoming fanboi assault
Something occuring 3 days apart counts as simultaneous? That's a definition I've never seen before.
Seems to me, at this rate, AoC should be able to get -- and hold -- somewhere in the 500,000 range. And when the Xbox version debuts (end of this year, or early next year), they could easily double that.
I'm kind of puzzled why saomeone at the age of 52 is being so negative about this game and bashing it any way they can
If this offends then so be it , but you're acting like a 15 year old kid defending his 'uber' game of WOW like nothing else matters in the world. Please.
I mean, what's your beef with AOC? Who can say what the subscriber base of AOC will be when WAR and WOTLK hits the shelves. It's equally viable to say the opposite to your pessimistic standpoint considering the interest in the build up to this game, 100,000 odd people being in Early Access, all the Collectors Editions sold, more servers being acquired and the fact that the launch was by the by pretty successful.
It's obvious that AOC has hit the WOW subscriber base. Not going to waffle made up percentages but it's plain to see. If AOC grows, then that percentage of WOW leavers will no doubt grow.
Also consider this. When WAR hits the shelves, if current MMO players are going to leave a game to play that one, which will it be? WOW? AOC? One of the others.
Was it a big deal for those gagging to get online? I'm sure it was but in the whole big scheme of things, it really wasn't.