Gnizmo on 15 May 2008
| Erik Aston said: BTW: WoW active subscribers includes bulk subscriptions from cafes in Korea and the like. So sales could actually be below subscriptions, though I expect the game has actually sold 10M. And I'm pretty sure the 9.5M for Starcraft includes sales of the expansion pack. The same is true for some of the ridiculous numbers floating around for the Sims and Sims 2. And as for the Sims console versions, I'm under the impression they are actually the same game, just crippled. |
They have around 5 million western subscriber's active today. I find it highly unlikely that 3 years into the game that half the people who have ever bought it are still around. At a similar point in its life span Everquest had 500k subscribers but over 2 million copies sold. That ratio almost certainly won't hold up, but it gives you an idea of what MMO sales look like compared to active subscribers.
