Archive for February, 2008

Version 22.0 Available

Posted on February 12th, 2008 in Analysis, Charts.

At long last, the new version of my charts and analysis is now online!  I don’t have numbers for every game, but there are quite a few updates, most notably to World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Dofus, Tibia, and NCSoft’s various titles.  Also included are preliminary numbers for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Lord of the Rings […]

NPD to Start Tracking MMOG Subscriptions

Posted on February 11th, 2008 in Meta, News.

The NPD Group has announced today that they’re going to start selling quarterly reports tracking “market size and title shares for paid online subscriptions to video games and MMO/PC games, gaming Web sites, and video game console services.”
Well it’s about time. NPD is currently the industry go-to source for monthly retail sales figures, but they […]

Update Coming Soon

Posted on February 6th, 2008 in Analysis, Charts, GDC.

The long-awaited update of my charts and analysis is almost complete, but I’ve been holding off pending NCSoft’s latest quarterly results.  They should be coming out this week, or next week at the latest, but there’s nothing on their corporate website and I’ve received no response yet to my inquiries, so I don’t know when it […]