14 DAY TRIAL // Electronic Arts has released information during its recent financial results unveiling that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning has reached 800,000 current players, who have accounts registered and are active in the game world. The MMO grew by 50,000 active players in the month of October and a similar growth is expected in November.
The good news is that Warhammer Online does not seem to suffer from the same fall in players that Funcom's Age of Conan experienced the first month, during which subscriptions were free for those who bought a copy of the MMO. The game is continuing to grow even if hardcore MMO lovers should be setting aside precious dollars for the upcoming November release of Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to World of Warcraft from Blizzard. After all, getting close to one tenth of the players WoW has in under two months is a big thing, even if it takes much more of an effort from both Mythic and Electronic Arts in order to directly threaten the position of Blizzard's MMO.
Overall Warhammer Online managed to sell more than 1.2 million copies, which means that we could see more people coming online in the game in the following weeks. World of Warcraft is still the runaway leader when it comes to subscriptions, as it has just revealed having reached the 11 million mark.
In an effort to make sure that it does not see a massive player exodus after November 13, Mythic has announced that it plans to launch a major patch for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning in December, when two new tank classes are introduced to the game, along with some new content and with a lot of tweaks and fixes supposed to make the game more appealing.