Stop Hand-Holding me!

[JakeRoon]

Anarchy online is and has always been an extremely niche game (not to mention a commercial failure).

the "free play" program, started in 2004, has had the most significant effect on subscriptions to date. ”More than 400,000 new players" signed up for free subscriptions in the program's first ten months according to Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas.[78] The next year, the number of free subscriptions created, independent of paid subscriptions, was stated as one million.[54] The income from the program—which had generated $1,000,000 by its second year—supplements revenue from paid accounts.[77][79]
Funcom attributed "higher than expected" company profits in 2006 to Lost Eden's release in December of that year.[79][80] Subscription revenue during this time was described as "steady" and "profitable". Subscription revenue remained "steady" for the next three years, until 2009 when they were described as "slowly declining".[81][82] It was stated that close to two million subscriptions, both free and paid, had been created by July 2008.[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_Online (read the citations if you must)

For a commercial failure it sure seems to be making a lot of money OH and look at that it had over twice as many subscriber than FFxi........


I really wish you guys would stop talking out your @$$3$ before you make statements like this. It just drives home the point of how disconnected to the whole mmo gaming genre you really are.


OH Lahru_Hukurou!!!! wuv you baby! we'll have to go blitz some missions some time!