Age of Conan: 400,000 Subscribers Already

Funcom is proud to announce that Age of Conan is one of the fastest selling PC games of all time. More than 400.000 gamers have entered Hyboria over the last few days, with almost half coming from the North American market. This amazing figure for a PC game shows that the positive pre-order trend has transferred into actual sales, and people from all over the world are now flocking to the most savage, sexy and brutal MMO ever created.

[TheHater]

I bet 99% of those subscriber are just subscribing so they can create topless female characters. :)

[Lumbo]

wich i will merrily behead then ...

nope, thats not whats happening so far. The topless part... The beheading par is happening all teh time ..

[Montrealien]

Good for them, hope it works out, or at least a good portion of these people keep on playing throughout the year.

[heyheyhey]

WoW killer

might check it out myself

[Montrealien]

wow sold 2 million in its first week and is rated T. Burning Crusade sold 2.4 million copies in 24 hours...

That is all I have to say about that...

Don`t get me wrong, this game will have a great mature community, but will never be as accessible as wow. And is no WoW killer, that game is still to come and won`t be for a while still.

[Montrealien]

or you could disagree without explaining your self...throwing anonymous disagrees is the way of N4G, as usual.

if you think this will be a `wow killer` I guess we can talk about that fact in the next few months, to claim it now is just bad judgment.

[Baba1906]

wow had million fanbases before it came out becouse of the warcraft games. i think comparing it is no fair. sure there are conan fans but they are more the book, movie fans and no gamers. but i agree there is not such a thing as a wow killer. you cant kill 10 million people. but it is a new alternativ to wow and such. and a good one.

[Montrealien]

^^^^ That I agree with, This game should have a promising community as long as they stay there, it will be very mature, brutal, and there will be lots and lots of weird cyborz zex, lol

[heyheyhey]

yeah, i didn't claim the game was breaking any sales records

the WoW killer comment was more of a (bad) joke, it wont overcome WoW

but it's a very good competitor and it really deserves the MMO crown over WoW

i just hope it manages steal the WoW fanbase in the next couple years or so

people must be getting bored of WoW by now

[theox2g7]

ZOMG!! PC gaming is dead!! it's funny how this game has pretty hefty system requirements but because the devs played their cards right, they are capturing honest paying pc gamers, The market is there, nothing is dying, you just have to focus on the right things, Crysis did a mill in less than 50 days, Sins broke 300k in less than a week with no protection at all, people are still buying high end parts like crazy, it's up to devs to not shove out unoptimized, buggy, dumbed down horse crap if they want to make any money rather than b1tching about piracy or applying draconian measures which violate gamers and leave the true scum pirates scot free

[bootsielon]

It's about how many you can keep. Does the game have monthly fees like most MMOs, or is it enough with paying XBL fees?

[Montrealien]

This is a PC game, no XBL needed to play. As for the 360 version,that is a whole other story and it is not even out yet.

[socomnick]

Yes this game does have pc gaming fees like wow does.

[Montrealien]

I think he meant the Fee + an Xbox live subscription. I think most of us know it is not a free-to-play game.

[socomnick]

Well mmos on the xbox 360 dont even require a gold account. You can play phantasy star and ff11 with a silver account no fees at all.

[Montrealien]

^^^^really? I did not know this, interesting.

[Jikla]

Not a wow killer I bet. It may get at the same line as wow though. I bet this game will have at least 2-3 mill players by years end. 20$ on it ;p And it's an amazing game :)

[SUP3R]

As soon as I upgrade my PC I might get into this game.
Been watching some gameplay videos and I have to admit it looks really good.
Wish I could have a trial first.

[The Rain Man]

This is a highly anticipated game that got a great turn-out. Sales will jump with word of mouth. not a WoW kill but 4-5 mil by June next year

[name]

PC gaming is far from dead. It just filtered out all the noobs. :)

[Baba1906]

i love this game. you really feel the conan world. death, barbarians, woman, blood and magic. its all there. it has the best fighting system i have ever seen in a mmoprg. they got rid of click heal, nobrain melee dmg and 30 second buffs. i think its really an improvement. the classes are really new too. Bear shamanfor example heals wenn he makes dmg. so the more dmg you make the better the heal, thats just geniuos.

hihihi i dont work for funcom but it really is a very cool game. it has its flaws. absolutly. some buggs and some gameplay mechanics that need to be fixed. but thats why we are paying monthly.

[jaja1434]

And it will be at the very least 399,99 after this month. A lot more if you believe the forums. Aside from all the other issues I just simply refuse to pay for a game that use so many freking instances...

[Pain]

400k was a No brainer, but the real Hurt to Wow will be from WarHammer not Conan.

[Montrealien]

another great prediction from a 1 bubble pain in the butt, ;P

We will see 6 months after Warhammer is released, till then it is all speculation.

[Bizmal]

Where is all the things they talked about for AOC. I own and still have not seen it. Where did they get mature out of it.