Wow, less than 7% and all of them playing for free. I think you're reading far too much into this to try to make an invalid point. Beta tests draw in the curious and the "tasters".  If WAR can maintain respectable numbers of paying customers after the first three months, then they can celebrate. Box sales mean very little since most of that revenue will be used to recoup investment.

Mythic has a lot more work to do before they can lay claim to being a contender.

Originally posted by Goldknyght

Originally posted by Alan0n

http://www.xfire.com/genre/mmo/massively_multiplayer_online/

Kinda funny really.  Hope it will continue to grow and be more and more populare when ppl realise its pretty polished and meaningful for longterm gameplay.   But for that to happen Mythic needs to keep throwing new things in all the time.

 

2nd most on xfire. I dont use xfire. why do i need someone tracking what i do. im not a 2 year old.

Hmm...you might not be 2 yrs old but your response is along the line of a 2 yrs old haha. That link of Xfire wasn't to track what YOU do, it was tracking how WAR and other MMO games are doing concerning the popularity and populations. Doh. You don't even need to have Xfire to take a look at it. Double DOH.

Originally posted by LordDraekon

Wow, less than 7% and all of them playing for free. I think you're reading far too much into this to try to make an invalid point. Beta tests draw in the curious and the "tasters".  If WAR can maintain respectable numbers of paying customers after the first three months, then they can celebrate. Box sales mean very little since most of that revenue will be used to recoup investment.

Mythic has a lot more work to do before they can lay claim to being a contender.

1.5 million preorders shows that they are a contender(if only in the ability to sell preorders, heh). DAOC was an underdog game, yet stood it's ground against EQ. I don't see any reason why WAR won't stand. There are enough people playing mmo's with various tastes to keep just about any mmo alive. If they hold subscribers at the same rate daoc did(70% of box sales) then they will do just fine. Today's gamer is a little more fickle than those who picked up DAOC, so it maybe lower....hell it could be higher. WAR will remain in the second slot next to WoW. DAOC stayed second to EQ, WAR will stay second to WoW.

Hrmm my preorders and most people I know ( all 4 of them :P ) paid in full for the SE pre-order

This game will be number two *north american mmo behind WOW, in my opinion. 

Yes, there are things that could be better.  As time goes on, they can polish and add to the game where it comes up short. 

Edit:  *North American

Originally posted by ranghar

Originally posted by LordDraekon

Wow, less than 7% and all of them playing for free. I think you're reading far too much into this to try to make an invalid point. Beta tests draw in the curious and the "tasters".  If WAR can maintain respectable numbers of paying customers after the first three months, then they can celebrate. Box sales mean very little since most of that revenue will be used to recoup investment.

Mythic has a lot more work to do before they can lay claim to being a contender.

 

1.5 million preorders shows that they are a contender(if only in the ability to sell preorders, heh). DAOC was an underdog game, yet stood it's ground against EQ. I don't see any reason why WAR won't stand. There are enough people playing mmo's with various tastes to keep just about any mmo alive. If they hold subscribers at the same rate daoc did(70% of box sales) then they will do just fine. Today's gamer is a little more fickle than those who picked up DAOC, so it maybe lower....hell it could be higher. WAR will remain in the second slot next to WoW. DAOC stayed second to EQ, WAR will stay second to WoW.

1.5 Million Boxes Sold to REtailers not customers. We have no idea what the pre order numbers actually are and Mythic never boasted anything other than their game has more pre orders than any previous EA game.  

You really gotta watch the wording in those articles so many people have reading & comprehension skill problems.

btw I'm very happy with WAR so I do hope they see several hundred thousand customers int he next few days with a gradual & continuing increase.   Their goal is to be number 2 next to WoW I really don't see why this isn't possible the game's condition & content level is far superiour to WoW's condition at Launch (im not crazy enough to compare them to WoW's current state since its had 4 years to clean itself up & add ridiculously crappy horrible end game (find for pve dungeon raiders crap for just about everyone else)).

Originally posted by UncertaintyP

It's not really that amazing for a game to have tons of people beta testing it, especially since any problems can be explained away with "it's beta".

Its most amazing and polished MMO in beta up to now. Even WoW few months after release was looking  like a crap compared to WAR!

Me and a friend of mine are starting WAR until WoW expansion comes and will keep going on important raids 1-2 days a week. I know a lot of players on my server who will do that as well. So you really can't say anything untill 13th of November.

Xfire doesnt detect the eu client so.

Also, did everyone forget that WoW also installs xfire for you when you install? Furthermore, do you believe that some of the people installing actually know how to correctly disable/uninstall it. (Pop in the disk and install is alot different than msconfig or going through the control panel and uninstalling.) WoW inflated their numbers by doing this, which really is a pretty wise decision if you think about it.

Xfire really says f-all..

AOC was the same,.

its only based on 7,002 players...so that really does not say a thing

Originally posted by cyress8

Also, did everyone forget that WoW also installs xfire for you when you install? Furthermore, do you believe that some of the people installing actually know how to correctly disable/uninstall it. (Pop in the disk and install is alot different than msconfig or going through the control panel and uninstalling.) WoW inflated their numbers by doing this, which really is a pretty wise decision if you think about it.

i never got xfire wit wow...

Originally posted by cyress8

Also, did everyone forget that WoW also installs xfire for you when you install? Furthermore, do you believe that some of the people installing actually know how to correctly disable/uninstall it. (Pop in the disk and install is alot different than msconfig or going through the control panel and uninstalling.) WoW inflated their numbers by doing this, which really is a pretty wise decision if you think about it.

WoW does not install xfire for you ever, i do not no where you even came up with this lol.

Who really cares about what X-Fire says. We will see the numbers in a few months and that will tell us all we need to know. I'm looking forward to trying WAR when they put out a 10 day trial or the like.

BTW, I never got X-Fire when I installed WoW

I don't know what War's number is but I counted over 50 servers and most had medium to full capacity.  Should be real interesting to see how many servers go on line tomorrow! As someone said earlier, playing beta shouldn't make you play the game when it goes live. But if the game is as fun as War is, thats reason enough for me to buy the retail version!

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Originally posted by cyress8

Also, did everyone forget that WoW also installs xfire for you when you install? Furthermore, do you believe that some of the people installing actually know how to correctly disable/uninstall it. (Pop in the disk and install is alot different than msconfig or going through the control panel and uninstalling.) WoW inflated their numbers by doing this, which really is a pretty wise decision if you think about it.

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WoW does not install xfire for you ever, i do not no where you even came up with this lol.

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