That number is actually a little misleading, Slyde.
Bloodpledge licenses on a different scale, using a weird "site-licensing"
for Internet Gaming cafes. So, where 400,000 subscribers in EQ represents
400,000 people, 2.7m for Bloodpledge might not be as representative as you
think.
Talies
At 10:52 AM 2/8/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>There are several in the works now. Shadowbane I believe is very close.
>Lord of the Rings is far from - if it will ever - be released. The company
>that holds the long term development (I think it's Sierra owned by EA) has
>wasted three years. - laying off the entire development team and trying to
>start again.
>Horizons showed a lot of promise - but the management of the company was
>completely incompetent - and their best developers quit in frustration.
>They went bankrupt and were bought by NCSoft that will hopefully have a good
>product some time in the future. They have been pretty tight lipped - but
>evidently are concentrating on developing the engine.
>NCSoft produces the largest MMORPG in the world. In typical American
>arrogance - we talk about EQ being the biggest because we only look at our
>market But their BloodPledge game has 2.7 million subscribers. That's not a
>typo or a mistake. Those are almost all in Asia and they only recently
>started marketing in the US market. They hired Richard Garriot who's
>heading up the US arm of the company.
>The upcoming 200-pound gorilla of the MMORPG market will also be released by
>Verant - sometime this year. You may have heard of it - it's called Star
>Wars Galaxies
> Slyde
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> >Anyway, have you heard of the TWO persistent world (massive multiplayer)
>Lord
> >of the Rings games which're supposed to come out soon?
>
> >And is this (leaving for Anarchy Online or others) why EQ users seem to
>have
> >vanished over the course of the last year or so?
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