Age of Conan
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- Developer: Funcom
- Genre: Fantasy
- Status: Final
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Age of Conan » General Discussion » xfire shows AoC numbers decreasing :(
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doromur 7/17/08 2:01:55 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004
No no no, The point of the thread is to point out that the graph showing the no. of users playing AoC on the X-Fire website is generally on a downward slope... All the filler between the OP and this post has been speculation on why this has happened. |
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huxflux2004 7/17/08 2:06:59 PM
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Originally posted by doromur
No no no, The point of the thread is to point out that the graph showing the no. of users playing AoC on the X-Fire website is generally on a downward slope... All the filler between the OP and this post has been speculation on why this has happened.
Maybe because it happens with all mmos? Even WoW had around 20% of registered keys that never converted to a paying account. |
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Ender4 7/17/08 3:28:10 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004
Maybe because it happens with all mmos? Even WoW had around 20% of registered keys that never converted to a paying account. AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base. |
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openedge1 7/17/08 3:36:44 PM
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Originally posted by Ender4
Maybe because it happens with all mmos? Even WoW had around 20% of registered keys that never converted to a paying account. AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base. Agreed. And I think I have it figured out finally. Norway must have the same Tax Rules as Germany. You know what this means. They NEED it to flop. This is the reason Funcom is to MMO's what Uwe Boll is to movies. "Uwe Boll's films are funded entirely by German investors. There is a little known loophole in German tax rules that allow a write off at the end of every tax season for investors of a failed movie" |
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huxflux2004 7/17/08 4:51:24 PM
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Originally posted by Ender4
Maybe because it happens with all mmos? Even WoW had around 20% of registered keys that never converted to a paying account. AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base.
Dude, what are you smoking? The game been out less than 2 months. How the heck do you have data for 3 months?
I think that this say it all, about the cretibility of all the trolls here. |
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fyerwall 7/17/08 5:02:01 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004 AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base.
Dude, what are you smoking? The game been out less than 2 months. How the heck do you have data for 3 months?
I think that this say it all, about the cretibility of all the trolls here.
The downward trend is still there, and its mainly due to Funcom not being truthful. There are still cryptic press releases, undocumented changes and more bugs added than repaired. Top that off with a very edited official forum where they try to keep everything appearing to be sunshine and roses. They would probably retain more users if they would just open up and say "Yes, we screwed up a lot..." and test thier patches before dumping a few dozen new bugs into the game. |
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Ender4 7/17/08 5:29:44 PM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004 AOCs numbers are down almost 50% in the past 2 months though and it has been a steady downward trend for almost 3 months now. The game is bleeding subscriptions rapidly. You used to be able to confirm it by watching primetime server populations but they nerfed that to hide the problem and put all servers at medium population all the time to further hide it. I'm sure at the end of the month they'll release some bogus statement saying the game has shipped X accounts or some other vague meaningless number to try to trick people into thinking that is the subscription base.
Dude, what are you smoking? The game been out less than 2 months. How the heck do you have data for 3 months?
I think that this say it all, about the cretibility of all the trolls here. Oops you are right, make that 1 month and 2 month. For some reason I was thinking I paid twice before cancelling and not just once. The point still stands. From June 20th until now it the server populations have fallen almost 50% at prime time(slightly over 3000 on a weeknight back then down to 1800 last week before they shut down the search function). It has been on a steady decline since the 2nd week of release. |
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Hamrtime 7/17/08 8:44:49 PM
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I see AoC this way.
When Katie Couric joined the CBS news team there was a ton of hype. So much hype that her ratings were through the roof her first few weeks. After that, everyone who was watching thinking that she was gonna do a great job discovered she sucked doing the evening news and went somewhere else for their evening information. A few years later she has the worste ratings of all the major networks and CBS is looking to get rid of her. Bottom line is,,,AoC had the hype but now people are discovering that the game sucks and now will go back to what they were playing till something else catches their eye. |
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Battlekruse 7/17/08 9:50:04 PM
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Forums Are For Discussion. Let us discuss productively and respectfully! |
I do think that the reality is very similar and AoC has had a HUGE drop off in numbers, with a lot of people refusing to pay monthly for an unfinished game that isn't anything great over what is already out there and has only one starting area. |
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Gorilla 7/18/08 3:32:21 AM
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Originally posted by huxflux2004
Then your comprehension skills are clearly very lacking. Read again, the point is that is popularity is decreasing at an alarming (for FC) rate. |
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Vicksburg 7/18/08 9:19:42 AM
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Bottom reached today. http://www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/ at 21.700 minutes now Let's see now. Do some calculations/ With Wow at 449.000 minutes now. This means Conan is played rougly 20 times less than Wow. Wow is known to have about 4 to 4.5 million western subscribers (less in summer). That would mean Conan would have about 200 to 220 K active subscribers. it is a bit low I think for a newlly launched game with 700.000+ units sold. Comparing with other MMO's it would mean EVE is at about 100 to 120 K in the summer. The real bummer is LOTRO with hardly over 8300 minutes played... placing it under the 100K mark. Of course the smaller the number the bigger the sample error. BUT these ARE sample stats and they show trends ! |
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openedge1 7/18/08 9:49:16 AM
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