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efefia  5/09/08 9:57:37 AM

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www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/online-subscriptions-exceed-1-billion-a-year-says-npd

 

MMO/PC Games:

  • 1. World of Warcraft
  • 2. RuneScape
  • 3. Lord of the Rings Online
  • 4. Final Fantasy XI
  • 5. City of Heroes

Only the top 5 available so far as far as I can see, I'd love to see their findings in full though.

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DarthRaiden  5/09/08 10:07:00 AM

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Your perfect smile,
Betrays your lack of style,
Ah No Class,
No Class

Forum Terrorist

Smed you have a load to do.

New Web Enhancement (NWE)  is needed to enhance SWG and iconify it to web based clients to match RuneScape numbers !

Do somethink  about i hear  Kaz  screaming.

The NWE

...more fast based in a web window !

 ..more iconic in jpg and gif !

do it moron ! get SWG the RuneScape subscription numbers ..tard!

you like to buble about "generation ahead"  you fool ..wake up and face reality noob !

Not 1 of the station pass  crapware  in top 5 you looser !

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No SWG Pre-Cu, No money to the $OE suckers , simple and fair.

DON't agree to $OE 's EULA. They change the gameplay without respect your investement.

"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)

kefkah  5/09/08 10:43:18 AM

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Foramu Otaku

Want that NPD Group Report...

Pay up - http://www.npd.com/lps/Online_Gaming_report/index.html

severius  5/09/08 10:55:49 AM

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From reading the article it appears that this is focused primarily on the US, am I right?

If so, then it's quite telling that even City of Heroes has more subscribers than any single SOE game.  How is it that Smedley and others continually refer to SOE as a leader in the industry?  I mean hell, it's been at least a year since I last logged into City of Heroes/Villains and even then it seemed like the game was vacant on the Justice server.



Soulbutcher  5/09/08 11:00:14 AM

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Hell yeah gotta say NPD is the best party ever!

 
Mathos  5/09/08 1:07:55 PM

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CUNGE FREE And Om nom nom free
AoC free also

Its a safe bet $OE and its titles will be at or off the bottom of the last page.

 
SioBabble  5/10/08 3:43:23 PM

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Eventually, Kaz will figure out that SOE sucks because of it's utterly incompetent management, and he'll do something about it.

CH, Jedi, Commando, Smuggler, BH, Scout, Doctor, Chef, BE...yeah, lots of SWG time invested.

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vet-in-exile  5/10/08 7:27:09 PM

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Well this should finally put to rest the idea that SOE is a "market leader" in the mmo industry. lol...they can't even get one of their games into the top five.

 

Good game, Smed.

 
ArcAngel3  5/12/08 11:57:03 PM

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"I am altering the deal, pray I don''t alter it any further." (summary of SWG)

I've played WoW and currently play CoH.  I think both of these are simply fun and work well.  My kids have played runescape, and loved it, but now play CoH also.  I've heard great things about runescape from them though.  They had a ball. 

Smed keeps searching around for the magic marketting format or target group to get the big bucks.  Just make the damn games work, make them fun and stop lying to people.  Can't see the forest for the trees that guy.

 
Hauken  5/13/08 3:40:44 AM

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No big suprises there. I wonder if SOE would have made the top 5 list with all their subs. combined?

Hauken Stormchaser
I want pre-CU back
Station.com : We got your game
Yeah?, Well i want it back!!!

Zorndorf  5/13/08 3:46:32 AM