Rinnhart,Nov 18 2004, 07:53 AM Wrote:I don't think the writer's giving proper credit to the MMO industry. Half a million customers for EverQuest alone isn't a "niche" market. Isn't it over a million subscribers on FFXI?I think he's referring to the German MMO market only, because 150,000 "carefully estimated" WOW subscribers would be bit low :)
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What I find interesting in this article is that Blizzard may actually produce a strong in-house competition with WOW and their other (off-line) games.
"Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays." -- Friedrich von Schiller