I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
I want half my life back!...
Ok im lying, cox can keep it 
A lot of reviews lately on the game, also a page dedicated to it in the new issue of PC Gamer magazine.
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*snif* such pretty words...
Yay for extra media coverage!
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I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
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Oddly enough, it's how I explain it to my friends - as "the game you can play without it eating your social life".
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
the MMO Mag that came with PC Gamer states that there are approx 160,000 subscribers to CoX would that be EUs numbers?
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the MMO Mag that came with PC Gamer states that there are approx 160,000 subscribers to CoX would that be EUs numbers?
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I'd guess that's worldwide
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EU forums have 30,000 registered users, or thereabouts, US forums have 117,000 registered users, or thereabouts.
If they're taking subscription numbers from day one, and not excluding inactive accounts - then 160,000 could easily be EU only. Worldwide, it seems a little small.
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EU forums have 30,000 registered users, or thereabouts, US forums have 117,000 registered users, or thereabouts.
If they're taking subscription numbers from day one, and not excluding inactive accounts - then 160,000 could easily be EU only. Worldwide, it seems a little small.
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Nope, that's world wide, 30 - 40k in the EU sounds about right, as does 120 - 130 for the US, this isn't the biggest game in the world, but is doing ok.
also the other numbers that have corpped up put us at around that mark.
remember, if some one isn't subbed to here or the US, they can't play the game.
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EU forums have 30,000 registered users, or thereabouts, US forums have 117,000 registered users, or thereabouts.
If they're taking subscription numbers from day one, and not excluding inactive accounts - then 160,000 could easily be EU only. Worldwide, it seems a little small.
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According to joystiq.com, COH/COV has 0.8% of the market (as of April this year) whereas WOW has 62%.
Now I can't remember how to do maths properly, but I'm sure some cleverer person than myself can do that whole (well if 62% if 9 million, then 0.8% of that 100% figure is...) equation.
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9,000,000 / 62 * 0.8
So 116129.03
So that 160,000 seems about right worldwide. Certainly 160,000 in the EU only seems a bit high
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9,000,000 / 62 * 0.8
So 116129.03
So that 160,000 seems about right worldwide. Certainly 160,000 in the EU only seems a bit high
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Okay, that looks about right. 160k.
But, look at it this way - still high enough to register on the scoreboard, even if only just
Edit: No SWG? No DDO on that list? Mmmmh.
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Short but sweet - good to see CoH getting some more exposure.
And those subs numbers have to be worldwide - wasn't it announced that the combined game peaked at 220k subs (EU+US combined) in I6 after CoV launch? (The data here suggests 200k but may not be wholly accurate, but the trends seem to match). Based on forum activity and in-game numbers we certainly haven't got more people around now on the EU servers than we did back in I6 (though I can't speak for US servers).
If CoH/CoV ever broke the 300k and 500k subscriber barriers (300k being a big announcement point in the old EQ/UO/SWG days, and 500k being the big target pre-WoW that EQ just failed to achieve) I think NCSoft would be crowing about it in a press release.
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I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
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Oddly enough, it's how I explain it to my friends - as "the game you can play without it eating your social life".
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You text them that while you're playing?
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I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
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Oddly enough, it's how I explain it to my friends - as "the game you can play without it eating your social life".
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I still mock my RL mates who have stayed WOW side and wont join me =( I mock because I'm out on friday nights having a wonderful time with my other mates while one or two of them are sitting for hours on WOW, whilst I'm safe in the knowledge that one night (or several) in the pub won't cause my CoX world to collapse!
I've said it before and I will say it again, thats what drew me to CoX and exactly why I doubt another MMORPG will keep me hooked for this long!
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I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
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Oddly enough, it's how I explain it to my friends - as "the game you can play without it eating your social life".
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I still mock my RL mates who have stayed WOW side and wont join me =( I mock because I'm out on friday nights having a wonderful time with my other mates while one or two of them are sitting for hours on WOW, whilst I'm safe in the knowledge that one night (or several) in the pub won't cause my CoX world to collapse!
I've said it before and I will say it again, thats what drew me to CoX and exactly why I doubt another MMORPG will keep me hooked for this long!
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i make fun of my real life friends that play WoW
one of them just put a really long (and boring) on his guild forums saying that he is going to quit
and i'm like "yeah...for 5 minuets"
i've not decided whether or not i will continue taking the mick out of him about playing it
for all i know continuing to make fun of him may keep him away from it 
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I like the part .. "allows gamers to participate without giving up half their lives." .. No-one told me this when i started playing!
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Oddly enough, it's how I explain it to my friends - as "the game you can play without it eating your social life".
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I still mock my RL mates who have stayed WOW side and wont join me =( I mock because I'm out on friday nights having a wonderful time with my other mates while one or two of them are sitting for hours on WOW, whilst I'm safe in the knowledge that one night (or several) in the pub won't cause my CoX world to collapse!
I've said it before and I will say it again, thats what drew me to CoX and exactly why I doubt another MMORPG will keep me hooked for this long!
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i make fun of my real life friends that play WoW
one of them just put a really long (and boring) on his guild forums saying that he is going to quit
and i'm like "yeah...for 5 minuets"
i've not decided whether or not i will continue taking the mick out of him about playing it
for all i know continuing to make fun of him may keep him away from it
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I don't do it as often as I did...I used to continually ask one of them if they'd gotten an elephant yet, this was a running joke until he actually did. Then asked again and he went on to me all about his tailor who had some cloth etc etc etc whilst I sat bored looking for someone to save me!
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Here's a linky to the online bit, and apparently there's more in the magazine itself (including a piccy displaying the Purple-Butt-Light power
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