| Regarding growth of the MMO market.
I think everyone in this thread has vastly underestimated how EQ grew the market. I haven't seen any numbers but I had some talks with SoE guys about how their turnover was pretty bad. Sure their active subscriptions peaked at around 500k but over their many year run, how many total accounts were created? How many people gave an MMO a shot because of EQ? They might not have continued to play for long periods of time but they were introduced to a persistent online world.
Smed! It couldn't hurt to release those numbers right? How many unique Everquest accounts were created over the life of the game?
I'd be willing to be that a large number of these folks picked up WoW when it came out and found whatever EQ lacked. | 