these numbers are false, but it will do good what ever the numbers are in asia because it is fun to play.
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Originally posted by Greatness 150-200K concurrent users is a lot considering that is everyone playing at the same time. It is usually estimated that 15-30% of the total population is always playing their game at some point so I wouldn't be surprised if the total subscriber amount is close to around 1-2 million, as for 6.5 million, I don't know about that.
I agree, its definitely a good start. It will be interesting to see how this game develops.
Not to rain on your parade. It's quite common for "Asians" (don't PC me) to jump on the next big thing when it comes out and to drop it a few months later. They change games when the wind changes direction.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
and 3.4 million people attended the 3 day preview event. After which pre-sales boosted from 4 million to 6.5 million. Over at plaync they expect this to be bigger than lineage 1 and 2 combined. At this rate they are expecting an easy 6 million active users at AION launch in Korea alone, not including the international launch of EU and US shortly after.
If these games get numbers like that in Asia why even bother with the US/EU??? Just develop the game entirely for the Asian market and live happily ever after........From the footage I have seen of the game it doesnt look like anything special at all but that is just from the perspective of some youtube vids......
Also the link is in Korean or Chinese or whatever it is.....We're jsut supposed to beleive what the OP says?? Why not just say every person in teh world has ordered Aion?? I mean cmon it makes no sense.....The game isnt even as hyped as AoC or Warhammer, at least not in EU/NA........Most predicitons I have heard have it less than 500k subscribers and youre claiming millions and millions?..... Numbers greater than L1 and L2 combined on their best day?? Yeah right.......Its jsut to obad we dont ever get the truth from amny of these companies....it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and you know anymore that they are lying 99.99999999999% of the time.........
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Not to rain on your parade. It's quite common for "Asians" (don't PC me) to jump on the next big thing when it comes out and to drop it a few months later. They change games when the wind changes direction.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
I don't know about numbers in China, but currently in Korea there are 37 servers (and opening new ones each week).
Afaik there's a 10k players per server simultaneously limit (they reached 210k players simultaneously back when they had 25 servers in OB), that would mean the numbers could be close to 1M or so, with 370k as concurrent users limit, and estimating that 30% of the population are online at peak hours.
I don't know the figures for China preorders, which could also round the million considering the anticipation there, but OP's info isn't true, and then he just links to the official korean site's home? I think he's either trolling us or whatever lol.
Not to rain on your parade. It's quite common for "Asians" (don't PC me) to jump on the next big thing when it comes out and to drop it a few months later. They change games when the wind changes direction.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Not to rain on your parade. It's quite common for "Asians" (don't PC me) to jump on the next big thing when it comes out and to drop it a few months later. They change games when the wind changes direction.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Ok well since the later comments were deleted, Waterlilly did explain very well what her comments meant, she may be guilty of generalising but at least she has the intelligence to learn from other people, which I can't say for every MMORPGer... *cough*
I'm fancophone by birth and imagine what would happen if I reacted whenever someone said 'excuse my french' whenever they swore.... I frickin hate that saying however me freaking out isn't going to change anything other then reinforce the strereotype.
Not to rain on your parade. It's quite common for "Asians" (don't PC me) to jump on the next big thing when it comes out and to drop it a few months later. They change games when the wind changes direction.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Ok well since the later comments were deleted, Waterlilly did explain very well what her comments meant, she may be guilty of generalising but at least she has the intelligence to learn from other people, which I can't say for every MMORPGer... *cough*
If you're going to pick on someone's oberservations you might want to pay attention to the ensuing conversation..
Well the enitre reason for my posting the comment was that waterlily went and totally disregarded the guy's feeling - obviously not having learned any lessons. I am unsure if you read that post of his/hers or not but she was definatly not being nice to the guy.
I wasn't picking on other people's obervations - I was arguing for what I beleive in. Without a little freakout once in a while people get complacent and forget what happens when they start treating other people like... whatever.
Anyhow enough of that and lets get back onto Aion.
Well...... These numbers aren't even accurate are they?
No... the guy almost definately made them up. However - the confirmed numbers of around 500,000 people are very impressive still - especially since it has still only been released for a short time and only in one country.
However - still guys you should decide what games you play by what YOU like - not by how many other people are playing it.
In case no one has noticed teh OP doesnt have any other posts in this thread......There is little doubt this is total BS and viral marketing at its best........this kind of stuff is what pisses so many people off on this forum...... What stops idiots like this from just posting "XXX game has 85 million subscribers"!!!!!!! You'd almost think that thread starters would have to be responsible for some form of truth in their threads.
In case no one has noticed teh OP doesnt have any other posts in this thread......There is little doubt this is total BS and viral marketing at its best........this kind of stuff is what pisses so many people off on this forum...... What stops idiots like this from just posting "XXX game has 85 million subscribers"!!!!!!! You'd almost think that thread starters would have to be responsible for some form of truth in their threads.
No - we all realised the figures were wrong quite a while back. But don't start thinking the guy is from ncsoft - they can market the game much better than lieing - they don't have to lie - the real figures are impressive anyway. Besides, they havn't even started advertising in the west yet.
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Where did these numbers come from?
ArcheAgeSource.com
these numbers are false, but it will do good what ever the numbers are in asia because it is fun to play.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
I agree, its definitely a good start. It will be interesting to see how this game develops.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
If these games get numbers like that in Asia why even bother with the US/EU??? Just develop the game entirely for the Asian market and live happily ever after........From the footage I have seen of the game it doesnt look like anything special at all but that is just from the perspective of some youtube vids......
Also the link is in Korean or Chinese or whatever it is.....We're jsut supposed to beleive what the OP says?? Why not just say every person in teh world has ordered Aion?? I mean cmon it makes no sense.....The game isnt even as hyped as AoC or Warhammer, at least not in EU/NA........Most predicitons I have heard have it less than 500k subscribers and youre claiming millions and millions?..... Numbers greater than L1 and L2 combined on their best day?? Yeah right.......Its jsut to obad we dont ever get the truth from amny of these companies....it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and you know anymore that they are lying 99.99999999999% of the time.........
Sounds like a big hit in S Korea, will be interested to give it a try and see if I like it.
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Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I call balderdash good sir!
Here, here!
Good show!
Indeed...
This game is one of the few Korean stuff I will seriously try.
I kinda liked Lineage 2, except for the lack of armor variety (at least at launch), and the really repetitive level grind.
I hope NCSoft learned something from it and this one has better PVE content.
I will definetly try it.
I don't know about numbers in China, but currently in Korea there are 37 servers (and opening new ones each week).
Afaik there's a 10k players per server simultaneously limit (they reached 210k players simultaneously back when they had 25 servers in OB), that would mean the numbers could be close to 1M or so, with 370k as concurrent users limit, and estimating that 30% of the population are online at peak hours.
I don't know the figures for China preorders, which could also round the million considering the anticipation there, but OP's info isn't true, and then he just links to the official korean site's home? I think he's either trolling us or whatever lol.
37 servers? That's a lot considering the game hasn't been out for long.
But, yeah, I too was confused at the figures the OP posted.
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Ok well since the later comments were deleted, Waterlilly did explain very well what her comments meant, she may be guilty of generalising but at least she has the intelligence to learn from other people, which I can't say for every MMORPGer... *cough*
I'm fancophone by birth and imagine what would happen if I reacted whenever someone said 'excuse my french' whenever they swore.... I frickin hate that saying however me freaking out isn't going to change anything other then reinforce the strereotype.
Anyhoo....
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Your expertise on the 'Asian' player comes from which source?
from his brain! ooooooooo
I was thinking the same. I'm Taiwanese/Korean/Japanese. In otherwords, Asian. I've been playing Final Fantasy XI and Lineage 2 since Japanese launch and North American beta respectively.
Were you expecting people not to take offense to your comment?
Ok well since the later comments were deleted, Waterlilly did explain very well what her comments meant, she may be guilty of generalising but at least she has the intelligence to learn from other people, which I can't say for every MMORPGer... *cough*
If you're going to pick on someone's oberservations you might want to pay attention to the ensuing conversation..
Well the enitre reason for my posting the comment was that waterlily went and totally disregarded the guy's feeling - obviously not having learned any lessons. I am unsure if you read that post of his/hers or not but she was definatly not being nice to the guy.
I wasn't picking on other people's obervations - I was arguing for what I beleive in. Without a little freakout once in a while people get complacent and forget what happens when they start treating other people like... whatever.
Anyhow enough of that and lets get back onto Aion.
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Holy s***. For a game thats not supposed to be revolutionary that certainly boosted my excitement about it.
Anyway this game prolly targets all the gamers that wow doesnt target, the hardcore pvp ones.
I'm not a no life that sits in front of his computer all day long, I'm an intern that sits in front of his computer all day long.
Well...... These numbers aren't even accurate are they?
(,,,)=^__^=(,,,)
No... the guy almost definately made them up. However - the confirmed numbers of around 500,000 people are very impressive still - especially since it has still only been released for a short time and only in one country.
However - still guys you should decide what games you play by what YOU like - not by how many other people are playing it.
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I will be bigger than WAR and AoC combined - that's it's better than the two games combines also is a whole different thread
I'm pretty sure Aion is the only real WoW-killer coming out (as I have been saying for over a year on these boards) in 2008/2009.
Bleh I hope you're wrong! I want to play a game with an healthy population but let's not got nuts, which would be WoW numbers.
Ahhh well, I'll still play no matter what.
(,,,)=^__^=(,,,)
If this game gets over 1 million subs I will be happy
In case no one has noticed teh OP doesnt have any other posts in this thread......There is little doubt this is total BS and viral marketing at its best........this kind of stuff is what pisses so many people off on this forum...... What stops idiots like this from just posting "XXX game has 85 million subscribers"!!!!!!! You'd almost think that thread starters would have to be responsible for some form of truth in their threads.
No - we all realised the figures were wrong quite a while back. But don't start thinking the guy is from ncsoft - they can market the game much better than lieing - they don't have to lie - the real figures are impressive anyway. Besides, they havn't even started advertising in the west yet.
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