Warhammer ends quarter with 300,000 paying subscibers

[schild]

lol

[Redgiant]

it IS Blizzard.

Triforcer's correct

"Bllizzard announces next-gen RvR MMO using the Madness engine." 

[schild]

Madness engine

Heh.

[Kirth]

Better hope its not Blizzard:

[Soln]

next earnings call is May 5, 2009.

[rk47]

After a few months not playing a FULL GAME account, I got a survey on my mail. Asking why I quit playing their free trial. Come to think of it, I never got one for my unsubbed game account. That's really thoughtful of Mythic.



The ten question test paper starts here:

[schild]

Way to invalidate your opinion with the last 2 questions.

[rk47]

Way to invalidate your opinion with the last 2 questions.

i'm not coming back anyways. I couldn't muster the effort to CTRL + C , CTRL + V your posts here.

[UnSub]

What an awful survey.

[Brogarn]

That survey is embarrassing.

[Brogarn]

I finally pulled my head out of my ass. May 9th and WAR is no more on my PC. I'm kinda depressed about it because I looked forward to this game and going back to RvR style gameplay. I liked the lore, the world, and some of the classes but I can't justify their shit anymore. That doesn't mean that I didn't have fun; I did. I just disagree with the direction they're going and I can't put up with their lack of quality control anymore.

[rk47]

I finally pulled my head out of my ass. May 9th and WAR is no more on my PC. I'm kinda depressed about it because I looked forward to this game and going back to RvR style gameplay. I liked the lore, the world, and some of the classes but I can't justify their shit anymore. That doesn't mean that I didn't have fun; I did. I just disagree with the direction they're going and I can't put up with their lack of quality control anymore.

can i haf ur stuf ? 

grats on letting go. Good luck on the survey.

[tazelbain]

Ya, don't fuck up the the survey. We are counting on you to knock some sense into Mythic.

[Hawkbit]

There's not a hammer big enough, I'd wager.

[Brogarn]

can i haf ur stuf ?  

Yes.

Ya, don't fuck up the the survey. We are counting on you to knock some sense into Mythic.

I will give it all the seriousness, effort and time that I feel it deserves.

[tazelbain]

Ahh, damn, we're fucked then.

[Lantyssa]

No, not us.

[squirrel]

EA earnings call is at 2 PM PST today. Should be interesting.

[Nebu]

If Mythic can redefine the second, I'm certain they'll have no problems redefining a "subscriber". 

[HaemishM]

Why not? They redefined PVP endgame to mean "a game full of endless PVE raiding wherein you might, at some point in time before the server crashes, get to fight one or two other real people before getting one-shotted by the keep lord."

[shiznitz]

Nothing in today's EA earnings release about WAR numbers. We will have to wait for the 10K filing.

[Bismallah]

Here's the link folks: http://investor.ea.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=381903

At least I think it is, hell I dunno.

Apparently from the conference call: http://www.vg247.com/2009/05/05/warhammer-online-ended-march-with-300000-subs/

If that includes NA, Europe and Russia, ouch.

[waffel]

It has to, no way in shit it is only US/Europe. Even then, USA/EU/Russia equals 300k? Whatever, not going to say its wrong but... whatever.

[Hayduke]

There's only three Russian servers, so it's not too significant.

[Modern Angel]

I could see it being 300k. LOTRO is likely right in that area on a smaller number of servers so... I think it's the server numbers that make it feel so awful. Well, amongst other reasons. Which begs the question, what crack were they smoking when they launched with that many servers? Were they expecting 8million subs?

[Lantyssa]

Does someone need to dig up the Jacob's quote about 500k being a failure?  So, um, yes they did.

[fuser]

Previous quarter results was:

Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning®, an MMO from EA’s Mythic Entertainment studio, ended the quarter with over 300K paying subscribers in North America and Europe.

Now @300k ? Looks like it's bleeding out slowly. It's interesting how its not even mentioned in this quarters release... grimm? maybe not but they sure are hiding it away from investors and the news.

[schild]

Previous quarter results was:

Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning®, an MMO from EA’s Mythic Entertainment studio, ended the quarter with over 300K paying subscribers in North America and Europe.

Now @300k ? Looks like it's bleeding out slowly. It's interesting how its not even mentioned in this quarters release... grimm? maybe not but they sure are hiding it away from investors and the news.

300k essentially worldwide. I wouldn't call that a slow bleed. Didn't they sell 1.5-2.0M worldwide?

[Nebu]

If they have half that many next quarter, I'll be surprised.  When I quit playing, many of the larger guilds were talking about giving it up.  As soon as something new releases, WAR players will jump ship in droves.

[fuser]

Previous quarter results was:

Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning®, an MMO from EA’s Mythic Entertainment studio, ended the quarter with over 300K paying subscribers in North America and Europe.

Now @300k ? Looks like it's bleeding out slowly. It's interesting how its not even mentioned in this quarters release... grimm? maybe not but they sure are hiding it away from investors and the news.

300k essentially worldwide. I wouldn't call that a slow bleed. Didn't they sell 1.5-2.0M worldwide?

ended the quarter with over 300K paying subscribers in North America and Europe. that was Feb. I thought Russia was before 2009 but it was after then, so yeah its even worse.

[UnSub]

Despite opening in some potentially major markets - Russia was February - WAR has shown no growth in player numbers since launch. I'm guessing the paying accounts of some of the new markets are covering holes left in the US and Western Europe.

[Arthur_Parker]

Language translation costs money, I don't see how a long term strategy of replacing cancelled subscribers by releasing WAR in a new region can be maintained for long.

[UnSub]

They'll run out of regions quickly enough.

I'll be interested to see if World of Fight is going to be Warhammer in China. It would be WAR but without a lot of the Warhammer IP, to take a potshot at what the Chinese Morals Police might consider acceptable. Yes, that's right: WAR stripped of IP and down to its underlying mechanics. 

[Shatter]

When Aion launches in NA it will take many of those subs, including mine

[waylander]

If they have half that many next quarter, I'll be surprised.  When I quit playing, many of the larger guilds were talking about giving it up.  As soon as something new releases, WAR players will jump ship in droves.

Last night we pulled a triple zone lock and triple fort push operation on Dark Crag. One fort in the Human pairing was in the bag, another fort in the Elf pairing had 20 mins on its timer and required Order to defend, and one fort in the Dwarf pairing was about to go down due to being overrun by our forces.  BOOM! Zone crash.  The timer on the Elf pairing was winding down by the time we all got back in so people went over to the Dwarf fort, nasty PUG's ran to the Dwarf Fort to cause supply line issues, and we all just logged out for the night.

The population cap in zones and forts really screws organized guilds. We often plan big operations, and then when PUG's see zone lock messages going off they all go flood the pairing for their RVR tokens and free renown.  With the RVR tokens they ALWAYS flood the fortress now, and then they sit around dead waiting for rez's that rarely come, and taking up supply line spots.

War has to drastically overhaul its T4 system or I think Q2 and Q3 are going to show a big decline unless they expand to a new area like Asia and get lots of new subs.