Age of Conan Subscription Numbers

Funcom’s 2nd quarter financial report for 2008 was published today, and finally – I can’t stress that enough – player (subscribtion) numbers has been released. Here’s some highlights:

Age of Conan Q208 Report Highlights

• So far the game has sold-in (to retail and digitally) over 1.2 million copies and has sold through over 800.000 copies (i.e. customers that since launch have bought a game client and entered their game client key and payment details into Funcom’s billing database).
• The game currently has more than 415.000 customers (players who are either subscribers or are playing in the first 30 days included in the sale of the box).
• To maximize the rate of customer acquisition going forward Funcom will among other initiatives enter new markets such as Russia and Poland.
• Funcom is currently in negotiations with local publishers in the most important Asian markets with the goal of launching the game in Asia in the second half of 2009.
• Funcom is also in the early development phase of the Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan game.

So, they sold about 1.2 million copies of the game, but as of today they’ve hooked about 415 000 of them. The game hasn’t been out long, and since they’re still seeing revenue from Anarchy Online, I believe we’ve yet to see Funcom’s and Age of Conan’s real power.

If you want to, you can read the Q208 Report yourself (PDF). There’s more goodies to be extracted from it, such as Funcom’s new MMO called The Secret World.