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Another indication of poor sales

Crash86Crash86 Member Posts: 125
in Dungeons & Dragons Online

From GameDaily's busines section http://biz.gamedaily.com

Top 10 PC Games (Week Ending April 1, 2006)
Chart posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006


1. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
2. World Of Warcraft
3. The Sims 2 Open For Business
4. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Collector's Edition
5. Star Wars: Empire at War
6. The Sims 2
7. The Godfather
8. Disney Princess 2Pack
9. Civilization IV
10. Battlefield 2

What's missing from this list?  Hmmmm ....

Just for reference, the weeks leading up to this week's chart looked like this:

Top 10 PC Games (Week Ending March 11, 2006)
Chart posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006


1. The Sims 2 Open For Business
2. Star Wars: Empire at War
3. Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II
4. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach
5. World Of Warcraft
6. The Sims 2
7. Age of Empires III
8. Civilization IV
9. The Sims 2 Nightlife
10. Battlefield 2

The next chart:

Top 10 PC Games (Week Ending March 18, 2006)
Chart posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006


1. The Sims 2 Open For Business
2. World Of Warcraft
3. Star Wars: Empire at War
4. The Sims 2
5. Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach
6. Lord of the Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II
7. Age of Empires III
8. Civilization IV
9. Zoo Tycoon 2
10. Battlefield 2

4th in sales two weeks after launch.  Then 5th the next week.  Then gone from the top 10 after just six weeks ... couldn't even outsell the Disney Princess 2Pack.

WoW just a-chuggin' along, a year and a half post launch.  Not that I'm a huge fan of WoW, but someone must be.  The numbers speak for themselves.

Comments

  • CoHsucksCoHsucks Member Posts: 197

    According to the fanboys:

    "Its because its a "niche" game, yeah..Thats it..Honest..I-its for special g-gamers..yeah (wipe sweat from brow)..DDO rules!! Its the best selling game!!11 Those numbers are lies (sweat now flying from brow, dripping from nose)..No one can say DDO isn't the best game ever!!11eleven!1 AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

    Lol!

    Hear that Turbine? Its the sound of the plug coming outta the wall for the servers..

  • XenduliXenduli Member Posts: 654

    More of an indication that aside from WoW mmogs aren't selling too well. Where is RF Online? Exactly!

    No annoying animated GIF here!

  • lev-27lev-27 Member Posts: 30

    You mean 99.9% of all MMORPGS are going bankrupt?

  • gevrikgevrik Member Posts: 97
    I for one am quite glad that the game isn't being bought by everyone and their kids, it means that there won't be a flood of immature brats who ruin my gaming experience with the constant flamefest in chats.

    Sometimes less is more, especially when the lesser part are mature roleplayers. Can do without all those WoW people quite well, you know?


  • ScarisScaris Member UncommonPosts: 5,332

    Originally posted by gevrik
    I for one am quite glad that the game isn't being bought by everyone and their kids, it means that there won't be a flood of immature brats who ruin my gaming experience with the constant flamefest in chats.Sometimes less is more, especially when the lesser part are mature roleplayers. Can do without all those WoW people quite well, you know? image

    And you should be considered mature after making a sweeping statement about WoW players?

    - Scaris

    "What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World

  • gevrikgevrik Member Posts: 97
    Just the facts, my friend... :)

  • CoHsucksCoHsucks Member Posts: 197

    Originally posted by Fadeus


    Originally posted by gevrik
    I for one am quite glad that the game isn't being bought by everyone and their kids, it means that there won't be a flood of immature brats who ruin my gaming experience with the constant flamefest in chats.Sometimes less is more, especially when the lesser part are mature roleplayers. Can do without all those WoW people quite well, you know?


    And you should be considered mature after making a sweeping statement about WoW players?

    This is what the DDO fanboys do. They have nothing good they can say about DDO, so they bash WoW instead. Pretty sad really. The funniest part is, then he turns around and says that not only is his rant "mature", but then he posts that his rant/opinion is "just the facts".

    The ironing is delicious!

  • gevrikgevrik Member Posts: 97


    Rant? Ironing? (My shirts are nicely ironed indeed, I hate crinkles!) ;)

    Yes I don't think much about the average WOW player, experience with the WOW community has taught me that. But hey it's cool, they can keep playing their game, and I keep playing DDO. It's in your head alone where this statement became a rant and flame against WoW, I didn't even talk about the game WOW, more about its community, I know it was hard to understand, so I will say it again, just for you:

    To each their own...

    P.S.: I would suggest some counceling for you, CoHsucks, you seem to be in need of some anger management sessions, all that hate can't be good for your health. Also, before you talk of irony, you should check which forum you are on here. I'm not the one bashing a game that I don't even play, you can check the WOW forums on here, I will stay far away from those, I would recommend you stay away from the DDO forum...




  • CaptainRPGCaptainRPG Member Posts: 794

    Originally posted by gevrik


    Rant? Ironing? (My shirts are nicely ironed indeed, I hate crinkles!) ;)

    Yes I don't think much about the average WOW player, experience with the WOW community has taught me that. But hey it's cool, they can keep playing their game, and I keep playing DDO. It's in your head alone where this statement became a rant and flame against WoW, I didn't even talk about the game WOW, more about its community, I know it was hard to understand, so I will say it again, just for you:

    To each their own...

    P.S.: I would suggest some counceling for you, CoHsucks, you seem to be in need of some anger management sessions, all that hate can't be good for your health. Also, before you talk of irony, you should check which forum you are on here. I'm not the one bashing a game that I don't even play, you can check the WOW forums on here, I will stay far away from those, I would recommend you stay away from the DDO forum...





    Play 50 dollars for a broke game and see if you don't get pissed off. That's how I felt after playing WoW.
  • gevrikgevrik Member Posts: 97

    Originally posted by CaptainRPG







    Play 50 dollars for a broke game and see if you don't get pissed off. That's how I felt after playing WoW.



    I hear you, I tried it too, game wasn't that bad in my opinion, just the community was the worst that I have encountered since I play MMORPGs, which is a long time, since Meridian59 came out.

    But the difference between you, me and some other posters here *cough* is, that we two are not spending our time on the mmorpg.com forum for WoW to bash it in every post.

    Tried it, didn't like it, moved on... That's how normal people do it, I'm just a bit surprised at all the hate mongers in this forum, who try to sour DDO for those who like it, what do they get out of it, please enlighten me?
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