Comments on: Weighing up last year’s predictions

By: Bronte

Bronte — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:18:37 +0000

Have you considered turning this into a money-making pyramid scheme?

By: Jonathon Barton

Jonathon Barton — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:51:23 +0000

“Star Trek Online will meet with more success than Champions Online”
“I suspect this is probably true but not really sure how to measure it.”

Xfire seems to have the best data on the subject.
Xfire has seen 52,576 WoW players (on a Tuesday)
Compare that with Champions Online (61) and Star Trek Online (330)

Presuming that there isn’t prejudice either for or against Xfire among the players of one game or the other, then if WoW has ~11 million subscribers, then STO has around ~70k and Champions Online has about 13k.

By: spinks

spinks — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:12:43 +0000

Well, they’re never going to do a Moria sized expansion again so I’m not really sure what to call a new zone with loads of quests and stuff attached to it. As you say, they’ve added content in this way before (and Icecrown Citadel was really just a raid instance with a couple of 5 man instances attached, not a whole zone.)

I don’t even know what an expansion would be for LOTRO at this point. I do know we were disappointed with the lack of content but … it was a new zone/ new stuff to do/ new reps and it wasn’t Rohan.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:03:52 +0000

I have never heard anyone refer to LotRO’s updates this year as an “expansion.” If it is an expansion anytime a zone is added, LotRO has had, what, a half-dozen, despite only selling two? And the WoW raid dungeons like Icecrown Citadel should count as much as Enedwaith, so WoW has released at least two expansions this year.