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Erling Ellingson confirms Age of Conan subscriber numbers, says thankyou

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2008-08-25 17:00:00 by Adrian Bott in Massively
...subscribers mentioned in the Funcom quarterly report presentation referred to August 14th or June 30th, but in this interview Ellingson has now confirmed AoC 's active subscriber numbers as over 400,000. Working from the figure of 800,000 boxes sold, that gives a clear retention figure of around 50% right now As well as talking at length...
 
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Tabula Rasa's subscriber rewards explained

2008-11-21 19:00:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
 
...subscribers. We thought it only fair for us to explain them a bit.First off, it's important to note that all of these goodies are only available to people who were subscribed to Tabula Rasa at the time of this announcement. That's right. There was no warning, or time to prepare. They are rewarding those who have stayed subscribed to the game,...
 
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Guestimating MMO subscriber numbers

2008-11-24 20:00:00 by Shawn Schuster in Massively
 
...Subscriber numbers can get thrown around all day with little to no meaning. For example, did you know that 87% of all statistics are made up right there on the spot? It's true! In the case of MMO subscription numbers though, they can sometimes become obsessions for critics and fanboys alike. Some publishers release numbers readily, while...
 
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/random: How AoC and WAR might affect WoW: One players perspective

2008-05-29 15:57:39 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...subscriber numbers. I could link to quite a few posts, but Ill cheat and link to Tobolds post , because he already did the linking for me Im a tiny data point in a sea of MMO subscribers, but I suspect I represent some small percentage of WoW players (or former WoW players). Personally, regardless of the presence of Age of Conan or Warhammer...
 
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World of Warcraft Reaches 9.3M Subscribers

2007-11-16 05:37:26 by ubersoldat in Video Games
 
...subscriber-base has hit an all-time high of 9.3 million players. Although there is no release date set for the highly-anticipated World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King , Blizzard still manages to post record profits. Gamasutra reports Vivendi has chalked up the increase not only to its WoW subscriber base, but the release of its...
 
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Hellgate: London Patch 1.3b Ends Nightly Restarts; Patch Notes

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2008-05-26 00:32:45 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...Subscribers on the Sydonai (EU) server now get full subscriber benefits on the Test Center server Skills Engineers now have a 12-second shared cooldown time on the Smackdown, Shock and Awe, and Napalm Strike calldown skills Fixes Fixed equipped weapon mods being lost in Shared Stash Fixed a bug where you could see other characters attributes...
 
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Details on New Xbox Experience, Avatars, Netflix, Primetime, et al

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2008-07-14 00:00:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
...subscriber as well as a Netflix subscriber to use the new Netflix service Similarly, anyone you share your movie with would also need to be an XBL and Netflix subscriber Like Netflix's current streaming service, all content will be SD only for now. They could offer HD streams as soon as Netflix is ready to deliver Avatars They're not looking...
 
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COLUMN: 'Game Mag Weaseling': Mag Roundup 9/27/08

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2008-09-28 08:00:34 by Kevin Gifford in GameSetWatch
...subscriber editions dropping the newsstand mag's coverlines for maximum graphic-design beauty. The more the merrier, absolutely. A customer has never, ever, ever turned away from a magazine because the cover was too uncluttered I'm never sure how they do it, but NP's news is the only brand-new coverage in all of US magdom I could call timely...
 
Tags: game, mag, star trek online, star trek, cover, cover feature, nintendo power november, nintendo, challenge
 
 
 
 
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World of Warcraft Tops 11 Million Active Subscribers

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2008-10-29 06:31:12 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...subscribers and whether their figure includes those no longer playing the game -- a number of other MMOs include any player who has ever had an account in their world. Blizzard however, claims that all 11 million people they tallied are active players within World of Warcraft World of Warcraft now boasts more than 11 million subscribers,...
 
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Another MVNO Bites the Dust

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2008-02-06