AAA MMO developers offer up their 2009 resolutions
by Michael Zenke 
Jan 9th 2009 at 6:30PM
Filed under: At a glance, Culture, MMO industry
Their resolutions are great, on a number of levels. Some, such as Morrison's hopes for Age of Conan, are bold proclamations of their future plans. Others, like Miller's proclamation that City of Heroes will continue to be seen as the best super-hero MMO, reflect the ways the industry will be changing this year. Our favorite is probably Noah Ward's lookahead to EVE's 2009, a massive statement of purpose for the coming few months. He concludes, "I predict that in 2009 we will finally see the day where there are more EVE subscribers than Icelandic citizens. There will be more 'pew pew' than ever before." Read through to the article for the full resolution buffet.
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PeterD said on 7:55PM 1-09-2009
Past growth is not a real indicator of future performance for WoW. Sooner or later they're going to reach a saturation point where no more customers exist in the market that want to purchase their product and they'll go into negative growth as existing customers cancel their accounts.
If WoW opens up new markets then the potential for growth towards 13M exists, but otherwise I'll be very surprised if they ever reach it, let alone this year. I'm not even sure what markets remain untapped - do they have WoW in India already?
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Harry said on 5:37AM 1-14-2009
That's what people said at eight million subs. Hell, back in the day 250,000 subs was considered a ridiculous number.