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By: Jarno Kokko May 26, 2008

Age of Conan Hits 400.000 Subscribers

Just a few days after launch, Funcom reports that Age of Conan has passed the 400.000 subscriber mark. It's still short of their designed server capacity of 600.000 - 700.000 subscribers, but Funcom appears to be pleased.

Norwegian news website E24 quotes Funcom:

"Dette er et tall vi er godt førnøyd med." -- "This is a number we are well satisfied with."

"Utviklingen går i riktig retning", sier Funcoms finansdirektør Olav Sandnes til E24. -- "The development is going in the right direction", says Funcom Chief Financial Officer Olav Sandnes to E24.

Olav Sanders also indicated that Funcom is still aiming for over one million subscribers in the long term to consider the game a great success. It's still some way off from that, but historically popular MMOs take a while to grow their playerbase (and the unpopular games tend to peak after the first month). It remains to be seen how Age of Conan will perform in the long term.

You can find out more from this Norwegian news story (as translated by Google). Funcom's investor relations page also has some interesting reading on the business side of things as Funcom is a publicly traded company at the Oslo stock exchange.

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Killer_Tek	2008-05-26 #1
Still a loooong way to go...

valtterieranen	2008-05-26 #2
If AoC reaches WoW I will eat my mouse.

zed1138	2008-05-26 #3
I can't believe they are releasing "subscriber" numbers. Maybe 400k people have purchased the box and install the game, but its a little pre-emptive to be crowing over "subscriber" numbers when all of those 400k could cancel before the end of the free month. Month 2 will be where its at.

Unregistered	2008-06-02 #4
zed1138 goto http://www.funcom.com/wsp/funcom/frontend.cgi?func=publish.show&func_id=1296&table= CONTENT and read the first sentence than comment

Hexus_Tech

2008-06-02 #5

Quote:

The Age of Conan game now has over 400.000 active players (players who have registered their purchased game key in the Company’s registration and billing system).

For the lazy here.

I'm playing Age of Conan myself at the moment, only 2 days and level 21 but seems pretty good. Whether I'll fork over £11 a month for it is another question. If it were £8 I'd be more likely to.