[MUD-Dev]: Online vs Offline (was CoH and others)

[Luca Girardo]

Mike Rozak  wrote:

> The MMORPG numbers in my head are: EQ has approx. 400K users now,
> with a high churn rate, so it must have 800K-1M copies sold.

It should be higher even if it is difficult to find clear data. The
Themis Group has published some info about subscriptions and selling
rate for EQ, UO and AC for the year 2000 and 2001:

  SUBSCRIBER GROWTH IN ONLINE GAMES Page 4,
  http://www.themis-group.com/uploads/Consulting%20Services%20Brochure.pdf

For Everquest it is reasonable to assume that it sold far more then 1
million copies and counting the expansions too (and all the different
collections packs) it has probably sold 1,5- 2 millions boxes.
Consider Anarchy Online. It started pretty good with 50k to 70k
subscribers, it went down to 20k to 30k subscribers and probably raised its
subscribers number at this stage ( 40k to 50k ?). Still even if it was
pretty limited in terms of subscribers, they had more then 750k player
accounts.
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