{"id":1301,"date":"2006-04-18T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T05:33:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-04-20T23:02:25","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T06:02:25","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1301\/","title":{"rendered":"SirBruce is still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

And he has somewhat updated<\/a> his charts even if he still displays old data or really bad guesses that aren’t really that useful to interpret the situation.<\/p>\n

Let’s see if I can review the “scores” better:<\/p>\n

World of Warcraft<\/b> is given at 4.5 millions when we know that it should be above six. At least till The9 doesn’t blow up in China.<\/p>\n

Lineage I & II<\/b> have obsolete or wrong data, I have the most recent numbers in my last report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

City of Heroes\/Villain<\/b> is also at 190k instead of the old 150k on the chart.<\/p>\n

Final Fantasy XI<\/b> doesn’t release numbers since early 05 (I’m waiting for the new census, hopefully\/probably after ToA’s launch<\/a>) but the game seems holding well in Japan, while not so well in the USA. My guess is that it has probably lost 100-150k and it should be currently at roughly 500k.
\nEDIT: we got a recent press-release<\/a> with the launch of the game on the Xbox360:
\n“more than 500,000 players, and 1.7 million characters”<\/i><\/p>\n

SOE’s numbers aren’t anymore reliable in any way after the mess they did with the Station pass. EQ Classic<\/b> at 400k (still) is a myth that noone even remotely believes but SirBruce. EQ2<\/b>‘s subscribers, even if maybe rising slightly in the last months, should be still less than 250k (but at least more stable than any other SOE’s title) and SWG<\/b> is probably closer to 100k than it is to 200k.<\/p>\n

Dark Age of Camelot<\/b> doesn’t have updated numbers and I doubt Mythic will release something. But it should be surfing the 150k wave. With a not-so-encouraging trend, though.<\/p>\n

Eve-Online<\/b> is given below 80k. Old data. The last number I saw was roughly two weeks ago and it was 114k. It is possible they are losing some, but they should be able to retain the 100k at least till the next significant update (and a lot will depend on it<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What’s left? Other mmorpgs are bread crumbs or odd models that it is not useful to compare. Not relevant to my eyes and to the number game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And he has somewhat updated his charts even if he still displays old data or really bad guesses that aren’t really that useful to interpret the situation. Let’s see if I can review the “scores” better: World of Warcraft is given at 4.5 millions when we know that it should be above six. At least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-subscriptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}