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• • How did you purchase your preorder?

  • Originally posted by Oriphus
    

    Originally posted by Oriphus
    

     

    Originally posted by Shannia
    

    You forgot Option C,   Online, because my local store didn't have any in yet when I went to purchase my pre-order.

     

    Lol, saw you try this one earlier too, does it not make sense that most people who will be playing an 'online' game would just buy it 'online'

     

     

    lolo...further to this...why would the fact that they didn't have it in yet stop you from making a 'PRE-ORDER' anyway !!! lol

    Oh, I don't know, maybe because a person would get tired waiting for the store to get their PRE-ORDER BOXES in, so they ask for their money back and order from ebgames or amazon online because they have stock!

     

  • Posted: 5/13/08 2:27 PM
    Age of Conan
• • How did you purchase your preorder?

  • You forgot Option C,   Online, because my local store didn't have any in yet when I went to purchase my pre-order.

     

  • Posted: 5/13/08 1:19 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Funcom announced "nervous" Q1 financial report

  • Originally posted by Sineath
    

    I don't know what they've been making money off of.  I thought AO went free.  But, looking at the financial statement, if they continue to make the revenue that they have been making for the last 15 months and don't increase their current spending, then they need roughly 214k subscribers.  NOT 250k subscribers.

    I imagine, after release, they can easily layoff half their people and only need roughly 80k-105k subscribers and they'd be fine.

    They won't lay off very few, if any.  Funcom has another AAA mmorpg in the works plus a couple casual ones if I remember correctly.  Besides, most of their North American workers will resign to move on to the "next project" back home.  It has been a long time coming.  Funcom is a big company and has a lot more going than just AoC.

     

  • Posted: 5/13/08 1:16 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Funcom announced "nervous" Q1 financial report

  • Originally posted by openedge1
    

     

    Yet...I buy all my stuff online,,,so I don't have to go to the store...

     

    The reason they have sold few is it is the 21st century...We do video rentals, grocery shopping, and...game purchases....online...

    Cool world we live in...

     

    I don't doubt this for a minute.  Saying that, if I could sell parking spots at the local best buy for $1, in very short time, I'd pay cash for a house.  You can't tell me that more often that not people would rather buy online than get their pre-order or retail box inhand at the store.  Retail places are just too damn crowded for me to believe that.  

    Oh, and on a personal note and not trying to insult you but, if you get all your videos, grocery shopping and game purchases from online, do you ever get any exercise?  Try some fresh air.  It is good for you.

     

  • Posted: 5/13/08 1:09 PM
    Age of Conan
• • So, when exactly is a pre-order or game box SOLD? Any dev or retail purchasing agent know?

  • So, we all hear the hype about how each of these new games are the next WoW killer and yada yada because of all of these "pre order" numbers.   My question is, when is considered a sale of a pre-order or game box, at the retail store level or when a chain's purchasing agent places orders with the publishers?

    PoTBS was to have sold millions of pre-order copies, but look what happened at release to now.  I don't think 1 million people actually purchased the game from the stores.  What happens to those unsold copies?  Do the retailers eat these disks or are the all returned to the publisher for credit?  I'm curious at what point it is considered a sale.

     

  • Posted: 5/13/08 1:00 PM
    General Discussion