Blizzard COO, Paul Sams, told
Gamesindustry.biz that
”a significant number” of players have returned to World of Warcraft after leaving it for Warhammer Online. When questioned about seeing a reduction in players with the release of WAR Sams said,
”we’ve certainly had some (players leave), which is the same thing we experienced with Age of Conan and each time an MMO has come out we’ve seen some amount of reduction of use. The good news is that we’ve seen a significant number of people, well over half, that cited Warhammer as their reason for leaving - they’ve already returned.”
”I think Warhammer is best positioned to succeed out of the various products that have come out thus far since World of Warcraft has come out. It seems to be a good game, certainly a great company, Mythic and Mark (Jacobs) over there and his team, they’re very, very talented.” Sams added
WAR has claimed over 750,000 registered users which is a drop in the bucket compared to WoWs more than 10 million players.
