Blizzard Boss: Age of Conan Stole World of Warcraft Subscribers
Monday, August 4th, 2008Blizzard, makers of World of Warcraft, president Mike Morhaime, said the following to Edge in a conference call the other day:
Age of Conan released with some initial success a couple of months ago, and we did see some of our players leave to try the game. However, we’ve seen about 40 percent of those players return to World of Warcraft.
He then goes on talking about how huge World of Warcraft is, their service and such.
However, the key is this: 60 percent of the players coming to Age of Conan from World of Warcraft stays. Since this is from the Blizzard head honcho himself, and no Funcom PR machine, I’d say those a pretty reliable figures.
World of Warcraft is still the dominating MMORPG however, with 10.9 million subscribers. Funcom reported 700,000 a month after launch.