Age of Conan

The number of people that will join in the comming weeks/months will be greater than the number of people that will leave. That's a fact I'm almost sure of. None of my RL mmo friends have bought the game yet, still waiting for the hype to calm down. I think there are a lot others.

Originally posted by InvOOm

This is the case: 400.000 has registered their account and billing info after getting the game and managed to install it and patch it. There are still a lot of people waiting for their game to arrive from online orders, some bought the game but are awaiting the activation for various reasons: rig upgrade, problems installing/patching the game, away for the weekend (EU release was 23/5), students have exams, ..  you name it.

 

I am having a hard time to find online retailers that has the game in stock. I think they have practically sold out the first 700.000 copies

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

Originally posted by jy88902

 

Originally posted by InvOOm

This is the case: 400.000 has registered their account and billing info after getting the game and managed to install it and patch it. There are still a lot of people waiting for their game to arrive from online orders, some bought the game but are awaiting the activation for various reasons: rig upgrade, problems installing/patching the game, away for the weekend (EU release was 23/5), students have exams, ..  you name it.

 

I am having a hard time to find online retailers that has the game in stock. I think they have practically sold out the first 700.000 copies

 

Try real stores in real life.

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

Went on a search in Melbourne for a copy of the game, was all sold out

they had age of conan boxes there too - they put them up so people could reorder them /shrug - did you even bother to ask if the game was in stock?

ive seen ebgames do it with a few other titles - put the boxes out to attract sales, and on the shelf under pre-order.

Originally posted by mylin1

 

Originally posted by jy88902

 

Originally posted by InvOOm

This is the case: 400.000 has registered their account and billing info after getting the game and managed to install it and patch it. There are still a lot of people waiting for their game to arrive from online orders, some bought the game but are awaiting the activation for various reasons: rig upgrade, problems installing/patching the game, away for the weekend (EU release was 23/5), students have exams, ..  you name it.

 

I am having a hard time to find online retailers that has the game in stock. I think they have practically sold out the first 700.000 copies

 

Try real stores in real life.

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

 

Went on a search in Melbourne for a copy of the game, was all sold out

they had age of conan boxes there too - they put them up so people could reorder them /shrug - did you even bother to ask if the game was in stock?

ive seen ebgames do it with a few other titles - put the boxes out to attract sales, and on the shelf under pre-order.

 

Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

Originally posted by mylin1

 

Originally posted by jy88902

 

Originally posted by InvOOm

This is the case: 400.000 has registered their account and billing info after getting the game and managed to install it and patch it. There are still a lot of people waiting for their game to arrive from online orders, some bought the game but are awaiting the activation for various reasons: rig upgrade, problems installing/patching the game, away for the weekend (EU release was 23/5), students have exams, ..  you name it.

 

I am having a hard time to find online retailers that has the game in stock. I think they have practically sold out the first 700.000 copies

 

Try real stores in real life.

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

 

Went on a search in Melbourne for a copy of the game, was all sold out

they had age of conan boxes there too - they put them up so people could reorder them /shrug - did you even bother to ask if the game was in stock?

ive seen ebgames do it with a few other titles - put the boxes out to attract sales, and on the shelf under pre-order.

 

MASSES of boxes here in the stores in Belgium. How many do you want :))?

 

 

Because Australia wide it seems to be hard to find a copy, I had to put a pre-order deposit down to get a copy of a released game!

Originally posted by mylin1

 

Originally posted by jy88902

 

Try real stores in real life.

 

Just went past a random EB today. Shelf behind the counter is full of AoC boxes.

 

Went on a search in Melbourne for a copy of the game, was all sold out

they had age of conan boxes there too - they put them up so people could reorder them /shrug - did you even bother to ask if the game was in stock?

ive seen ebgames do it with a few other titles - put the boxes out to attract sales, and on the shelf under pre-order.

 

But no, they were real boxes with the game in them.

In Belgium they use the same method in one of the biggest game store: GameMania.

They put the box in the shelves so that you can (pre-)order the game. GameMania had boxes in stores a month before launch.

Originally posted by jazz.be

The number of people that will join in the comming weeks/months will be greater than the number of people that will leave. That's a fact I'm almost sure of. None of my RL mmo friends have bought the game yet, still waiting for the hype to calm down. I think there are a lot others.

Not very likely, most games don't grow much in the first few months with WoW being the exception.  The fact that so much negative opinions are out there about the game and the fact the lvl 40-80 content is a mess and I just don't see it growing right away.

I wonder how the buddy keys will come in view with this after say 10-15 days. Will some buy the games as well and push the subscribers to about a million? Also I guess people are waiting for money to maybe upgrade their computers, which this game might be a nice opertunity for.

It's top 10 player in the MMO market.. but hardly makes Blizz scared I think.

Well as it stands right now it's beating what WoW did at release, anything else is supposition and guesswork.

The game in general has had excellent reviews and scores for a newly released mmo, which are notorious in the industry for piss poor ratings. Lets do what all should have dome with the game and wait and see. Else we could all end up looking like the fools who predicted AoC would bomb at release.

Imo the game is decent it has problems but they all do its intrinsic to the genre, but from my point of view it has infinitely more going for it than WoW ever did with the exception of system requirements.