Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft Subscriber Stats For October

Posted on November 4, 2008
Filed Under Games, News, Rambling, Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft

Warhammer Online’s subscriber count has finally hit the 800,000 mark, but supposedly that is the stat at the end of September. I’m sure that if they hit 1 million it would be a fairly large milestone for them so they probably would have announced it by now. I’m not too worried for them since, World of Warcraft only had about 250,000 on the initial release so its a nice start.

I did my own non-accurate mini research though, and found that according to xFire stats, the numbers are down about 40% for Warhammer online, compared to the initial release (xFire tracked around 13,000 users back in September). The good news for them though is that the amount of time played by the remaining users haven’t changed since the release by very much.

Warhammer Online usage:

By comparison World of Warcraft numbers have actually gone up the last few weeks. Meaning those refer a friend promotions that Blizzard has been doing is bringing some people. Well sometimes 1 person with 36 World of Warcraft accounts in some cases. Either that or people are probably dusting off their characters in preparation for Wrath of the Lich King to come out. My guess is that people are doing player transfers so they can meet up with old friends, and play with them on the same server before the rush of game release.

World of Warcraft usage:

I know that xFire stats aren’t an accurate representation, especially since it really depends on the genre of the game you play for you to use xFire. (first person shooter players use it alot to join their friend’s games easily). But its still a pretty large sample of people to pull from, and with that large of a sample you can get a pretty decent estimate of a games usage or in this case subscriber retention rate.

With World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King coming out in less than 10 days from now how many of you people will pick up the expansion? I’m already burnt out of World of Warcraft myself so I’ll be sticking with Warhammer Online for a while yet.

If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, you can get it from New Egg for $37 bucks with the link below with free shipping.

Or from Amazon for $40, also with free shipping.

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