Warhammer Online Reaches 750,000 Players in Less Than A Month
Warhammer Online Reaches 750,000 Players in Less Than A Month
Posted 10/10/2008 at 8:10pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Quality may not always happily skip hand-in-hand with sales (See: Psychonauts, and then go buy it, please), but when it does, we wear unnaturally large smiles, ecstatic that there's justice in this cold, depressing world. You can imagine, then, that our pearly whites are on the verge of breaking free from our unhinged jaws thanks to Mythic's announcement that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has lured 750,000 players into its overtly war-packed world.
"Thanks to our players, the war between the Realms continues to escalate at an incredible pace," said Mythic co-founder and general manager Mark Jacobs.
And he's not just spouting nonsense from his PR-approved book of hyperbole either; Warhammer's 750k sprint has topped those of both World of Warcraft and Age of Conan, who reached similar numbers within three months and two months, respectively.
But don't start ordering Waaaagh Kool-Aid as a refreshment for WoW's funeral just yet. It should be noted that boxed copies of Warhammer Online came with a free one month voucher, cancelling out the game's subscription fee for a limited time. With the game's money vacuum soon to be fully operational, will players stick around for another month?
We sure hope so. Warhammer seems genuinely different from other MMOs, and it'd be a shame to see it sink. Also, gaming just wouldn't be fun anymore if we couldn't constantly tell our friends "It's 'hammer time," before darting off for a play session.
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Pixelated
November 07, 2008 at 7:46pm
Psychonauts was a stupid kids game, why are you guys so in love with it? I mean was it groundbreaking in some way? No, no it wasn't.
Muerte
October 13, 2008 at 11:27am
I dropped my WoW subscription for Warhammer. It definitlety has an upside for those people who can't put a few hours together, much less 25 like minded people who can stick around for the same amount of time to raid.
I was part of my first siege on a keep the other day. It went about how you'd expect it to go. A few people can hold a keep from twice ther number. Its very cool to see boiling oil come down the walls and cannons of different types firing in both directions.
I hope people give it more than a month chance. After all WoW took a few months to iron out some of the major problems and people still fall through the world every now and again.
I can't wait to siege the Orders major cities.
Avery
October 11, 2008 at 8:28am
X-Fire is showing a big downtrend with the game http://www.xfire.com/games/who/Warhammer_Online_Age_of_Reckoning/
Many people are realising there is no long term appeal to the game. Shame really.
Antilogic81
October 12, 2008 at 11:09pm
I'm seeing the graph but I can't help but think that the holidays are approaching and people are busy going to parties, buying gifts, or working to afford those gifts.
Not to mention xfire isn't exactly accurate, at best it's a very rough estimate of a player's behaviour patterns. It's hard to say it's anything else because it can only take logs from those players who use xfire and play a game at the same time.
nerdman978
October 11, 2008 at 5:36am
my friend actually cancelled his WoW subscription shortly after buying this game
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