Quote Originally Posted by Aela View Post
Maybe I'm missing something here, but who are you talking about having 4-5mm playbase? Here is another one of Ryahl's editorials on the Obituary for the subscription MMO. The fact is, the playerbase is just not there for a traditional western style subscription MMO. At least to sustain it long term. Pretty much you would have to find a WoW killer, and how many games have attempted and failed at that over the years?

If you take out WoW from the mix, you can see that the entire western subscription market was under 4million players (when the piece was written the data available was upto Dec 2011).
I see your facts and raise you blind faith! also contrary to popular belief the western market isnt the only market. also this is an optimistic thread i have no need for your pessimistic graphs and chart and data stuff, and i was getting tired of seeing the f2p arguments continuing on and on and on and on and on.... so i made a shallow attempt to hopefully dissolve it in some way or fashion.