Age of Conan sells 400,000 copies in first week
Funcom has released the sales figures for the long-awaited and well-received Age of Conan MMO, showing 400,000 copies sold since its release on May 20. Of those 400,000 copies sold, the North American market accounts for half of those figures.
The developer is claiming this release to be the highest amount of pre-orders ever for an original PC game. This combined with 2.2 million hits on the game’s website over the last week confirms what we already knew: people are excited for some Conan-themed MMO action.
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Kenneth’s Opinion
With the kind of stranglehold that Blizzard had (and continues to have) on the MMO genre with so many subscribers and becoming such an embedded cultural presence that extends beyond gaming, it is somewhat surprising to see these numbers. Considering that playing two MMO’s at once is not something that most sane people would do, Funcom still has quite a fight on its hands to ensure that these numbers stay strong and grow versus the gigantic beast of WoW. The installed fanbase of Blizzard’s money machine will be hard to topple.
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