Will Aion be the Death of WOW???

[Stefan.De.Machtige]

heruamon said:

Stefan.De.Machtige said:

heruamon said:
With those many pre-orders...Aion will do well in the first month..but 3 months later...

I'm thinking that too. Warhammer online started with 1.2 sales and is only left with 300.000 paying clients. Aion will probably go the same way.

It's not a bad business model...sell your retail to pay for development cost, and get to break even...then maintain the suer base of 300K...

Not bad sure, but not good either. I don't think the makers of Warhammer online set out to get that number. The production value of it was AAA. They were aming for far bigger clientnumbers.

I really doubt that 1.2 million retailsales alone earned back the development costs. At this point with subscriptions fees, they may have hit break-even and have some profits. An mmo is rather expensive.