Ok, so people who actually use Xfire are leaving the game, but what about the people who don't run Xfire? I don't, because it's a buggy program that lags out your connection, even on broadband. I'm sure many others don't simply because they don't know what it is. People need to evaluate where they get their numbers from and realize it's not the big picture. AoC will, in all likelihood, not fail. Vanguard didn't, and it had a worse launch and gameplay than AoC did and now it's done a turnaround. It's normal for this kind of cycle in the current climate. People expect a 'WoW killer', without taking into account that it's more than likely not going to happen.

Originally posted by twhint

Ok, so people who actually use Xfire are leaving the game, but what about the people who don't run Xfire? I don't, because it's a buggy program that lags out your connection, even on broadband. I'm sure many others don't simply because they don't know what it is. People need to evaluate where they get their numbers from and realize it's not the big picture. AoC will, in all likelihood, not fail. Vanguard didn't, and it had a worse launch and gameplay than AoC did and now it's done a turnaround. It's normal for this kind of cycle in the current climate. People expect a 'WoW killer', without taking into account that it's more than likely not going to happen.

So you mean to say there are probably a lot of people that have quit that aren't accounted for because they don't use Xfire? By gods your right, its worse than we thought!

Originally posted by Grunties

Originally posted by twhint

Ok, so people who actually use Xfire are leaving the game, but what about the people who don't run Xfire? I don't, because it's a buggy program that lags out your connection, even on broadband. I'm sure many others don't simply because they don't know what it is. People need to evaluate where they get their numbers from and realize it's not the big picture. AoC will, in all likelihood, not fail. Vanguard didn't, and it had a worse launch and gameplay than AoC did and now it's done a turnaround. It's normal for this kind of cycle in the current climate. People expect a 'WoW killer', without taking into account that it's more than likely not going to happen.

 

So you mean to say there are probably a lot of people that have quit that aren't accounted for because they don't use Xfire? By gods your right, its worse than we thought!

 I think he means that only people that use XFire are quitting, people thta do not use Xfire love the game and many are two and even three boxing it to get their Funcom fix. You see rumor has it that when using XFire and playing AoC Xfire flashes a subliminal message onto the screen too fast for your eye to see which repeatedly says "AoC sucks AoC sucks AoC sucks " until you quit.

Actually Amazing Avery already explained this.  All the xfire people have just gone on summer vacation.  Come september after summer they will all be coming back.

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda sad they might be topping the sales charts but it looks like they are sliding on keeping subs...  It will be interesting to see how th coming weeks shape up as accounts run out.

www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/

I stoped using xfire when AoC was released.  Xfire IMO is the one dieing.

Originally posted by Natttas

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda sad they might be topping the sales charts but it looks like they are sliding on keeping subs...  It will be interesting to see how th coming weeks shape up as accounts run out.

www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/

 

I stoped using xfire when AoC was released.  Xfire IMO is the one dieing.

LOL...... riiiiiight

FYI.... there are more Xfire users playing WoW each day..... than there are AoC players who DONT use Xfire...lol

Originally posted by mscouts77

Originally posted by Natttas

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda sad they might be topping the sales charts but it looks like they are sliding on keeping subs...  It will be interesting to see how th coming weeks shape up as accounts run out.

www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/

 

I stoped using xfire when AoC was released.  Xfire IMO is the one dieing.

 

LOL...... riiiiiight

 

FYI.... there are more Xfire users playing WoW each day..... than there are AoC players who DONT use Xfire...lol

sry i forgot to care, *hugs* ;p

The only charts AoC is at the top of is worst MMo ever. Or the ones on internal memos in the Failcom office that Erling makes lol.

Originally posted by Natttas

Originally posted by ethion

Kinda sad they might be topping the sales charts but it looks like they are sliding on keeping subs...  It will be interesting to see how th coming weeks shape up as accounts run out.

www.xfire.com/games/aoc/Age_of_Conan_Hyborian_Adventures/

 

I stoped using xfire when AoC was released.  Xfire IMO is the one dieing.

Sorry but while AoC numbers are decreasing LOTRO numbers are growing

Yep, player base is growing for almost every major title on xfire except aoc which is STILL losing 15% of the playerbase every week.  At this point I'll be shocked if AOC has 200K players, it is losing subs faster than any other game except Vanguard.

Originally posted by Ender4

Yep, player base is growing for almost every major title on xfire except aoc which is STILL losing 15% of the playerbase every week.  At this point I'll be shocked if AOC has 200K players, it is losing subs faster than any other game except Vanguard.

Vanguard lasted like 3-4 months before the mass exodus began...

AoC lasted 1 month before they started....and continues to thid day

Vanguard > AoC

The point is... the ratio of AoC players with Xfire has no reason to be rapidly fluctuating.

If 1% of the players are on Xfire, and all of them are playing 40% less on average, it's reasonable to think that a similar trend is going on with the ones that aren't on Xfire. You can think of Xfire kinda like a random sample, as Xfire membership and AoC subscribership are independent of one another.

Kinda looking like AoC might be starting to level off.  They look like they had about the same number this friday as last friday.  Although right now it lo