AoC: Spennende info om launch planene og videre utvikling

[teaspoon]

Kom over denne på AoC forumet:

 

Market update

 

• The Collector’s Edition of the Age of Conan game

is now sold out in all markets. Over 110.000

copies were produced. The CE edition is also sold

out in most retail chains, but the CE version may

still be found on shelves in some stores.

 

• Funcom estimates the day-one ship in (the

number of boxes sent to retail) of the Age of

Conan game to be around 700.000. The Company

underlines that there is high uncertainty regarding

the sell through speed of this day-one shipment.

 

• The pre-order program has continued to develop

very positively. Based on input from some major

retail-chains and combined with the simultaneous

multi-language launch in both Europe and North

America, Funcom has reason to believe that the

game is on track to at launch have the highest

pre-order number for any MMO ever. The preorders

will represent a significant proportion of the

day 1 ship-in.

 

• Funcom has made an additional order for servers,

increasing the size of the server park for the Age

of Conan game, to cater for 100.000 more

subscribers for the launch period, under a set of

assumptions for playtime per subscriber, number

of subscribers per server, number of subscribers

per game clients sold etc. The server parks will

now be dimensioned to handle 600.000-700.000

subscribers (Not concurrent users).

 

• Since January 2008 the Age of Conan site had

more than six million unique visitors according to

Google Analytics. During last week the site had

1.1 million unique visitors.

 

• The first review for the game gives it a 9 out of 10

score, and it is Game Reactor, the Nordic region's

largest gaming magazine, which gives the score.

 

Launch update

 

• Funcom has successfully launched the Age of

Conan game for around 100.000 early access

players on May 17th. Almost all the early access

players logged in during the first night. The launch

was conducted without major technical issues.

 

• The full US launch is planned for May 20th and the

full European launch is planned for May 23rd.

 

• The DirectX 10 version of the game will not ship

with the initial launch. The DirectX 10 version of

the game will be premiered at the German Games

Convention in Leipzig, Germany, August 20 – 24.

 

Launch risk update

 

• Key risks for the remaining parts of the launch will

be technical issues related to network and servers

and to client performance such as stability and

frame rate for different hardware configurations.

 

After launch

 

In the period after launch, Funcom will focus on

ensuring that the game is as stable as possible and will

adjust its actions to the reception of the game in the

gamer market.

 

• Funcom expects a number of game reviews from

the press in the coming days. Review scores may

impact the sales success of the game.

 

• Funcom will continue to update the Age of Conan

game with technical fixes as well as content

updates.

 

• Funcom will not report subscriber numbers on a

regular basis after launch, for marketing reasons,

but will provide additional financial guidance before

the Second Quarter 2008 reporting.

 

• Key risks after launch will be the quality of

gameplay, and thereby the longevity of the average

subscription, and the ability of the Company to

quickly address potential technical issues. Another

key risk will be Funcom’s ability to optimize the

game’s performance for PC’s with medium to low

end specifications.

 

Funcom is not taking investor and analyst meetings in

the period from May 4th 2008 until May 30th 2008 due

to the very sensitive nature of this time period.

 

The Management Board of Funcom N.V.

Dübendorf, May 18, 2008

 

http://forums-eu.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=2411

 

100.000 brukere pdd, og det dukker nok opp en par hundre tusen til iløpet av de neste ukene.

 

De tar med andre ord inn ca 12 mill i måneden (regner med 15 Euro pr kunde og 8 kroner på hver euro) med de nåværende kundene, ett stykke opp til WoWs tall, men om 1 mill av de 1.1 mill som har vert inne på sida den siste uka joiner, så blir det ca 120 mill i måneden. Selv med bare 50% uttelling, så lover jo dette veldig bra for oss aksjonærer.

Endret 19. mai 2008 av teaspoon

[dymoletratag]

Good news.

[ØysteinT]

Synd at DX10 ikke kommer før i august, men spillet ser jo pent ut i Dx9.

 

Vi får se hvordan det blir med Siege battles etterhvert.