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MechWarrior Online: Big Numbers & a Release Date
SBFord
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Piranha Games has announced that over a million registered players have signed up for MechWarrior Online during its closed and open beta phases. In addition, the team announced that the game will officially be released on September 17th.
Since the launch of Open Beta, players have spent more than 9.6 million hours or 1100 years playing MechWarrior Online, resulting in the annihilation of more than 46,941,487 Mechs. These loyal fans have lovingly destroyed 3 billion tons of metal on the battlefield, which is 8,359 Empire State Buildings, resulting in devastating carnage across the Inner Sphere, MechWarrior-style. Stacked end to end, these destroyed Mechs would reach to the moon and back 1,221 times. The total cost of this damage is a staggering 18,316,519,465 C-bills.
Find out more on the MechWarrior Online site.
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No question about it, I will be shocked frankly if they can sustain even half that number after release and I think I am being generous.
once they put in the faction system with the persistent world and the meta game to conquer it, it definitely takes on more of an mmo feel. this is coming, theyre selling pheonix pack mechs that come with faction loyalty point increase when used.
mmo mech war is coming, are you ready?
its no mmo but still tis not a bad game to jump into now and then.. plus its free..
I can see them having solid numbers for quite some time... and if they keep updating thing and adding new features then they will be able to keep those people.
I like to point out that IGP have said that then number of signed up should not be taken as the same thing as active players.
Found the qoute
"IGP president Kelly Zmak sees hitting the 1 million mark as a "psychological" victory for his company. He's realistic about the meaning behind "registered users" -- not every single one of them are active, but that's ok for now.
"The number signifies exposure and opportunity," says Zmak. "[The number is] not necessarily reflective of where we've come from or reflective necessarily of where we're going," he says."
So the numbers might very well be accurate. i'd say they have something between 4 and 9k user concurent and maybe 200-400k total of active users.
This have been a good conversation
this game has to many issues, it was fun when it first went into beta, but after all the changes and tweaks it is now no where near as much fun.
also it is not a MMO its a lobby PvP game nothing more, I was highly exited when it first went into beta, but once I relized it was not going to be a real MMO and instead a lobby game I lost intrest especially once a lot of the changes they implemented turned it into a flavor of the month lobby style PvP game.
F2P may be the way of the future, but ya know they dont make them like they used to
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