Warhammer Online Subscriber Numbers

800,000 b, check it out

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55715

 

I personally don't believe anything will knock Wow off the throne anytime soon, simply because of the MASSIVE resources Blizzard have available. I really don't think anyone can keep up with the pace that Blizzard is doing content updates with, you can say whatever you want, but **** like that takes time, and money! The latter being something Blizzard has alot of.

 

The market still has a ton of room.  I'd say the MMO playerbase, worldwide, is somewhere around 30-50 million people.  More than that would be overkill, unless there was something that made WoW subscriber #'s seem small.  Who knows... there's a market out there, and guess what... some parts of it are not being satisfied.  The Fantasy part of the market is saturated now... 11 million wow... 1 million war... aoc... dwindling #'s don't look good for Funcom(2nd mmo, and it's not much of a success).  But there's a whole sci-fi, social(2nd Life), and kids market that's out there.  There's a lot of mmo's out there, just that none managed to take a really big name and succeed well besides WoW.  It doesn't help that Blizzard has an excellent reputation when it comes to the initial quality, note: INITIAL, of their games.  But after a few years, WoW has been on repeat for 2 years now.  The expansion won't change much.  The game will die off like EQ did after it's N'th expansion.  People will move on to bigger and better games.  A lot of people picked up WAR, myself included, and enjoyed it.  But I have no time for MMO's now, so back to playing quick and easy fps/single player stuff.  But my WAR account will be active for another 6 months, and there's a lot of big changes coming to it.  As for subscribers, most of the really hardcore pvp/rvr types will stick with WAR, since WoW never really satisfied their needs with ****ty battlegrounds and the garbage arena system.  WAR's initial rvr stuff, including scenario's, just blew WoW's out of the water.  No amount of 'omg wintergrasp lake' is awesome crap will change my mind because every tier of War scenarios had really fun battles.  Also, the keep battles can be really fun when it's not too much of a zerg.  But we've yet to see most of the endgame play out as a lot of guilds are still only rank 25-30 and still going up, and there's a lot of players still working their way through Renown Ranks.

We'll see, but WAR isn't going anywhere anytime soon.  AoC on the other hand will probably just turn into another crappy 50k playerbase ****fest.