Age of Conan

FUNCOM NEWS

Funcom would like to provide an update for the Age of Conan game.

Status of the launch

The Age of Conan game now has over 500.000 active players (players who have registered their purchased game key in the Company’s registration and billing system). The game has as expected performed very well on the sales charts in the launch week and has been on top of the sales charts in many major markets.

The retail box of Age of Conan is now reported as sold out or close to sold out in many shops and areas in several markets. Eidos, the retail-publishing partner for Age of Conan, is working to resupply the retail chains and will be shipping more product to retail in the coming weeks.
The Company may report if special milestones are reached as part of further building PR and marketing momentum for the Age of Conan game. Funcom will however, not report subscriber numbers on a regular basis, and will provide additional financial guidance before the Second Quarter 2008 reporting.
For further risk evaluation, please see previous communication from the Company.
The Management Board of Funcom N.V.
Dübendorf, June 2, 2008

Originally posted by Lottobarn

FUNCOM NEWS

Funcom would like to provide an update for the Age of Conan game.

Status of the launch

The Age of Conan game now has over 500.000 active players (players who have registered their purchased game key in the Company’s registration and billing system). The game has as expected performed very well on the sales charts in the launch week and has been on top of the sales charts in many major markets.

The retail box of Age of Conan is now reported as sold out or close to sold out in many shops and areas in several markets. Eidos, the retail-publishing partner for Age of Conan, is working to resupply the retail chains and will be shipping more product to retail in the coming weeks.
The Company may report if special milestones are reached as part of further building PR and marketing momentum for the Age of Conan game. Funcom will however, not report subscriber numbers on a regular basis, and will provide additional financial guidance before the Second Quarter 2008 reporting.
For further risk evaluation, please see previous communication from the Company.
The Management Board of Funcom N.V.
Dübendorf, June 2, 2008

Just wait till the masses reach level 55+ and they find out there is no content. Maybe that's why Funcom will NOT report subscriber numbers on a regular basis?

Quote : The game is sold out in many shops!

Yup.. but not all!  Still have MANY boxes on shelves here!

And I'm not gonna buy thoses... I'm not gonna pay for the FOTM.

Originally posted by urbanmonkey

 

Originally posted by Lottobarn

FUNCOM NEWS

Funcom would like to provide an update for the Age of Conan game.

Status of the launch

The Age of Conan game now has over 500.000 active players (players who have registered their purchased game key in the Company’s registration and billing system). The game has as expected performed very well on the sales charts in the launch week and has been on top of the sales charts in many major markets.

The retail box of Age of Conan is now reported as sold out or close to sold out in many shops and areas in several markets. Eidos, the retail-publishing partner for Age of Conan, is working to resupply the retail chains and will be shipping more product to retail in the coming weeks.
The Company may report if special milestones are reached as part of further building PR and marketing momentum for the Age of Conan game. Funcom will however, not report subscriber numbers on a regular basis, and will provide additional financial guidance before the Second Quarter 2008 reporting.
For further risk evaluation, please see previous communication from the Company.
The Management Board of Funcom N.V.
Dübendorf, June 2, 2008

The game is sold out in many shops! Then it must be a good game. I am going to buy two copies as an investment!

 

Just wait till the masses reach level 55+ and they find out there is no content. Maybe that's why Funcom will NOT report subscriber numbers on a regular basis?

Right.  The game will lose most of it's subscribers and then Funcom will have to close the servers down due to a badly designed MMO.  Shame on AoC for ever having been released!  It doesn't stand a chance against such duds as Vanguard, DDO, EVE, etc..

Well it not sold out in my area (Nor*Cal), there must have been 20 copies on the BB shelves over the weekend.

~Staudie

Originally posted by Staudie

Well it not sold out in my area (Nor*Cal), there must have been 20 copies on the BB shelves over the weekend.

~Staudie

Yeah!  They are lying about the number of units sold!!  There is no way a game this buggy and have so many people not liking a lot of things about it be selling out in MOST stores...

Originally posted by Blackswordsm

Originally posted by Staudie

Well it not sold out in my area (Nor*Cal), there must have been 20 copies on the BB shelves over the weekend.

~Staudie

Yeah!  They are lying about the number of units sold!!  There is no way a game this buggy and have so many people not liking a lot of things about it be selling out in MOST stores...

Hype sells... I'm curious as to why they continue to toss around retail sells, but they "will not" keep us updated about subs..

Originally posted by GerardAtJob

Quote : The game is sold out in many shops!

Yup.. but not all!  Still have MANY boxes on shelves here!

And I'm not gonna buy thoses... I'm not gonna pay for the FOTM.

 

yeah same at one of my local GameStop they still have lot of boxes and lot of Mammoth cards (from CE preorder I think?) in fact they gave me a mammoth cards and I got the normal game and didn't preorder .

Originally posted by convict

Originally posted by Blackswordsm

Originally posted by Staudie

Well it not sold out in my area (Nor*Cal), there must have been 20 copies on the BB shelves over the weekend.

~Staudie

Yeah!  They are lying about the number of units sold!!  There is no way a game this buggy and have so many people not liking a lot of things about it be selling out in MOST stores...

Hype sells... I'm curious as to why they continue to toss around retail sells, but they "will not" keep us updated about subs..

Well, because 500,000 retail sales is pretty fucking impressive. This will most likely  land them in the top 5 PC game sales this year, and that = good. Whether it be hype or not, there have been plenty of other games that had a lot of hype but didn't deliver the retail sales expected. Also, Funcom is a publicly traded company with financial reports, so chances are you'll see some kind of sub numbers.... because, you know, investors like to see that kind of thing.