This press release contains the factual information http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/age-of-conan-nets-700k-players

"We are incredibly pleased to see Age of Conan turning into an MMO phenomenon," said Gaute Godager, game director on Age of Conan.

And from all reports the subs keep increasing, amazing launch so far for AoC. Looks like a huge succes story for Funcom !

Supbro

What record did it break?   Coming in a distant second?  

/facepalm

700k Accounts Created

NOT

700K Accounts Active

Originally posted by supbro

This press release contains the factual information http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/age-of-conan-nets-700k-players

"We are incredibly pleased to see Age of Conan turning into an MMO phenomenon," said Gaute Godager, game director on Age of Conan.

 

And from all reports the subs keep increasing, amazing launch so far for AoC. Looks like a huge succes story for Funcom !

 

Supbro

700k -1..... I quit after 2 weeks.

yes, 700k boxes sold, thats record breaking.  I'm sure no other MMO has ever  done that... really.

I'm telling you guys! its just protus on another account!

700k minus all the people who quit after the free month

Not bad.  They planned on a nich game with maybe 100k subs.

PvP games work.

Originally posted by Majinash

I'm telling you guys! its just protus on another account!

I figure same thing. Looks like the hardcore AoC lovers from the official forum are migrating. I can't blame them though. The AoC forums are brutal!  I honestly haven't seen such anger and outright hostility in a long long time. I used to think the WoW forums were bad..Enter at own risk baby! PvP!

On topic:

OP is spreading misinformation, as has been pointed out.

Edit: Hehe, I see you guys are replying to it, see how it's post count grows in strength as you feed the Viral!

"Funcom has announced that more than 700,000 people have created an account for its PC MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures."

I think its rather different from:

"Funcom has announced that more than 700,000 accounts are active  for its PC MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures."

I know for a fact that me and 8 from the 13 real life friends that started AoC together on Battlescar server, stopped after 3 weeks. My account is still active since i used a gamecard, but i am defenetly not playing the game anymore.

Did the OP even read the article...best selling...that means at that moment not all time.  The record was for the most pre-orders supposedly not for sales.

'700k minus all the people who quit after the free month'

Oh, lets just conveniently forget about anyone who might be purchasing the game after the "free" month.

Originally posted by Eulampios

"Funcom has announced that more than 700,000 people have created an account for its PC MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures."

I think its rather different from:

"Funcom has announced that more than 700,000 accounts are active  for its PC MMO Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures."

 

I know for a fact that me and 8 from the 13 real life friends that started AoC together on Battlescar server, stopped after 3 weeks. My account is still active since i used a gamecard, but i am defenetly not playing the game anymore.

You have 13 RL friends, wow, that's even more impressive than saving money on my car insurance......

Did you stay in a Holiday Inn last night?

Yes, it's a known fact that Age of Conan broke the all time record for any MMO release with their sales. That doesn't take into account the fact that the MMO market is almost a million times greater than it was during that major releases.

Age of Conan broke World of Warcraft's previous record by an extraordinary amount, but when World of Warcraft was released MMOs were only a niche-nerd market. Enjoy your padded information.

FACT: At release Age of Conan's server posted numbers of 3000+ active people on at any given time.

FACT: Currently Age of Conan's servers are holding a steady number of 1500+ active people at any given time.

FACT: Stop posting these stupid threads. Age of Conan was a fun game, I would love to play this game and would love to just PvP in it all day. But that doesn't change the fact that there's been little to no end game content, there was a patch that made the game completely unplayable for me for 2 entire weeks (which I didn't even get account credit for), the game runs like complete balls on some of the best systems, and over half of the original development team is on a new project.

I'm glad you're so enthralled by this game, but past the level 1 to 30 gameplay, this game begins falling short. It's still nearly impossible to do a city siege, and moreso, if you do a city siege you will not be able to actually play it unless you're running a super fast computer.