Warhammer ends quarter with 300,000 paying subscibers

[Triforcer]

Is MJ a lawyer?  After a day spent going through insanely complicated pharmaceutical contracts, I'm still impressed by that statement.  It SEEMS to give good news, but the exact word choice tingles my lawyerly spidey sense so hard the desk is shaking.  

[waffel]

'at' 'about' 'recently'

re⋅cent
   /ˈrisənt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ree-suhnt] Show IPA
–adjective
1.    of late occurrence, appearance, or origin; lately happening, done, made, etc.: recent events; a recent trip.
2.    not long past: in recent years.
3.    of or belonging to a time not long past.



Mark IS right, they were at 300k recently. Back in December.

[Trippy]

Aaaaaaaaand we go from a post where mark says subs are fine to:
The planned closing and merging of 43 servers.

Amazing. You really can't make this stuff up.

http://herald.warhammeronline.com/warherald/NewsArticle.war?id=688

[IainC]

Is MJ a lawyer?  After a day spent going through insanely complicated pharmaceutical contracts, I'm still impressed by that statement.  It SEEMS to give good news, but the exact word choice tingles my lawyerly spidey sense so hard the desk is shaking.  

Yes he was. He was also a stand-up comedian for a bit too apparently.

[Trippy]

How about Minister of Information?

[Tannhauser]

A lawyer, a comedian AND a game dev?  This man must have zero self-esteem.


I keed, I keed!

[Bismallah]

Most folks have caught on to Mark's clever guises. Use of "recently" is very telling there, without indicating an exact number, yet stating that they were over 100k.

Like others have posted, WAR will keep trudging along until another fantasy genre based game comes out to give it some competition with the "ohhh shiny" crowd. Say if Darkfall pulls 50-75k away in combination with normal attrition because they are tired of WAR will a big double whammy.

I'd say, and it's not a far off estimate for most here, that within one year of release WAR will already be on serious life support and down to a handful of "live" servers with an active population (defined as having enough people to actually play the game as they intended, few hundred per side online at a time).

[Soulflame]

Didn't the game recently release in Russia?  If so, maybe part of those numbers are from there.

I can't imagine they currently have 300k EU and US subscribers, but maybe they do.

[Megrim]

Mythic are duds. Everyone who cares about pvp in Russia is playing EvE.

[Lantyssa]

Sweet.  I think I'm about to get to test my question from the last page with the Avelorn to Ostermark transfer.  The automatic transfer already failed since my Chaos characters were all on Ostermark.

Are there any other RP servers left?

[Triforcer]

WAR just needs a bold, visionary Head Designer to take them back to the top.

http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/03/06/a-brief-meta-note/

Mission Accomplished!

[Hindenburg]

Are there any other RP servers left?

Chaos Wastes. It's also getting nuked.

[Lum]

WAR just needs a bold, visionary Head Designer to take them back to the top.

http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/03/06/a-brief-meta-note/

Mission Accomplished!

Yeeeeeah, I'm pretty low on the list of their prospective hires.

[Lantyssa]

Are there any other RP servers left?

Chaos Wastes. It's also getting nuked.

Awesome.  Say g'bye to my Swordmaster and a horde of alts in their teens who will be stuck in limbo.  This is just the kind of draw needed to bring me back.

[waffel]

Sure it is. You BETTER COME BACK! or you'll lose your characters!

[raydeen]

I held a mass funeral for mine. They were too beautiful for Mythic's world.

[tazelbain]

Hmm, pretty stupid to delete them.  But we are talking about Mythic.

[Hindenburg]

Did they ever say that they were gonna delete the leftover chars?

[Lantyssa]

No, however if there really is only one RP server as someone said, I can't actually transfer them anywhere.

What happens to un-transferred characters will depend how they have their databases set up.  It could still be interesting to see what happens on the more common server types.

[Lakov_Sanite]

WAR just needs a bold, visionary Head Designer to take them back to the top.

http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/03/06/a-brief-meta-note/

Mission Accomplished!

Yeeeeeah, I'm pretty low on the list of their prospective hires.

Get me tickets to the next blizzcon kk?

[Merusk]

WAR just needs a bold, visionary Head Designer to take them back to the top.

http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/03/06/a-brief-meta-note/

Mission Accomplished!

Yeeeeeah, I'm pretty low on the list of their prospective hires.

You reactionary, job-hopping flibbertigibbet!  You're just taking seekret job after seekret job to drive all of us insane. We know it!

[Lum]

Hi, this isn't about me, thanks. Go post about me in the appropriate company thread! 

[Lakov_Sanite]

In truth, has any warhammer thread made been really about warhammer?

[Delmania]

In truth, has any warhammer thread made been really about warhammer?

Most start off about Warhammer, but are easily derailed because pretty much anything is better than that game.

[Soln]

Hi, this isn't about me, thanks. Go post about me in the appropriate company thread! 

and what company might that be good Sir?   

[Triforcer]

My Blizzard "next MMO" spidey sense is tingling, for some reason.  Please Lum, no arenas!!

[WindupAtheist]

That would be awesome. Having even a minor Blizzard dev posting here would unleash a perpetual tardstorm on the order of the Great Mark Jacobs Starfucking Debacle.

EDIT:  Fuck you, I still do green.

[UnSub]

Nonsense! Lum is an SOE Man now!  (y'know, it's a  even if it is true)

[Triforcer]

That would be awesome. Having even a minor Blizzard dev posting here would unleash a perpetual tardstorm on the order of the Great Mark Jacobs Starfucking Debacle.

EDIT:  Fuck you, I still do green.

And that's why I think there is a chance it IS Blizzard.  Any other company, any other game, and he could still post here without moronic legions starfucking him.  The fact that he won't say is telling in this regard. 

EDIT:  It could also just be a standard confidentiality agreement regarding an unannounced title by any company.  But confidentiality agreements don't usually require a person to not even disclose the company he works for.  So, I'm sticking with the Blizzard moron-avoidance theory. 

[Merusk]

Hi, this isn't about me, thanks. Go post about me in the appropriate company thread! 

Yes but you're much more interesting than WAR, as shown by the easy derail. 

I'd have posted the same think on your blog but you disabled comments for that bit.   

[Lantyssa]

We just have to associate his name with all the companies we know so he can keep telling us he doesn't work for them until we get it right. 

[Lum]

That would be why I'm not actually answering any of that speculation, yes.

Except to say Triforcer's correct, it really is a standard non-dramatic non-disclosure.

[Nebu]

In these times, it's probably appropriate to congratulate you on having a job.   Where it happens to be is unimportant.

[Cheddar]

We really need a method to get alerted to epic threads.

Wow. 

[WindupAtheist]

it IS Blizzard.

Triforcer's correct

INTERNET RUMOR MILL, GO GO GO! CONTEXT IS FOR DWEEBS!

Edit: Lum, just straight-up tell us that you do not work for Blizzard. No NDA could possibly prohibit you from truthfully stating that you do not work for a particular company. Also you have to pinky swear, and if you lie may you fry, stick your finger in your eye. Once it's not Blizzard, the speculation will die down substantially entirely.

UNLESS IT IS BLIZZARD!