Back in May, I posted an article about how Age of Conan shipped 700,000 units for its big release. Today, although a bit late, I learned that Mythic has shipped more than double that, 1.5 million units to retailers for its release tomorrow (or should I say today since it’s 1am) Sept 18th, absolutely crushing the previous record. Although not a true world wide release, it’s pretty big shipping units to North America, Europe and Oceania (basically Australia and a few other islands around there)
What does this mean for Warhammer Online gamers? Well not much. As we saw with AoC, having a big release will get the game off to a good start, but if you don’t bring the beef players will drop your game faster than a drunk frat girl dropping her panties after she’s had a few. But it does say something about Mythic’s confidence in its final product, which hopefully is much better than AoC’s was on release day.
Tomorrow I plan on going out and hunting for a copy of War. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as last time when I tried looking for AoC and wasted about 5 hrs over the course of 2 days before I finally got a copy. Wish me luck.
“drunk frat girl dropping her panties” wow, the good old days…
Shipping a lot of units is one thing. Sellin’ them is another story, though.
I was kind of interested in the game during beta but not enough to want to buy it. I thought there was obvious polishing needed. After the disaster with AoC, I’m going to wait at least 2 months after a MMOs launch before deciding if I want to buy it, unless I’m in beta an absolutely blown away.