brewen Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 I was just wondering if anyone knows how many people played this game under Westwood and how many were playing before EA shut it down??? I'm only asking so i can get my story straight lol. Someone on Hellgate Global ask me. I dont wanna lie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMichaels Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Forums arent that busy - look a few topics down and you would have seen this: https://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?/topic/7775-where-you-on-the-original-enb-in-2002-to-2004-or-just-here/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewen Posted December 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) [quote name='MrMichaels' timestamp='1355102272' post='68553'] Forums arent that busy - look a few topics down and you would have seen this: [url="https://forum.enb-emulator.com/index.php?/topic/7775-where-you-on-the-original-enb-in-2002-to-2004-or-just-here/"]https://forum.enb-emu...4-or-just-here/[/url] [/quote] Thats nothing similar to what I wanted to know. I want to know How many people were playing the day EA GAMES unplugged the game. Nothing in that thread tells me that number. I know people who are here now played it. I don't want all those people to come to this thread and start saying ME ME ME. I want to know were 100,000 people online the day it was unplugged or what??? Edited December 10, 2012 by brewen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyp [LDEV] Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 I don't think any of us have actual statistics for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blondine Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 At the time EA dicided to shut down ENB, active accounts were at something like 30000, not enough for EA. Sims had about 12000. And EA wanted to go with Sims as their online game, because it would be more paying............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searing Posted December 13, 2012 Report Share Posted December 13, 2012 [quote name='Blondin' timestamp='1355378358' post='68900'] At the time EA dicided to shut down ENB, active accounts were at something like 30000, not enough for EA. Sims had about 12000. And EA wanted to go with Sims as their online game, because it would be more paying............. [/quote] At the time EA had a shortage of coders and developers...and that was the main reason they bought out Westwood Studios...so they could kill a competitor .get a group of talent from Westwood to work for EA (they mostly went to the SIMMS online) and make that game in an easier manner in 2004-06 or so with the newer tools available and better hardware to the consumer..that is how it works you get a game up for a couple years (ST0)..your gains in graphics and such come from hardware improvements....new tool invocations to work with the hardware etc...looks like you did something with the game ..but main improvements were hardware better tools etc....that game is up a couple years gets dated...repeat.... essentially the model of "madden football" same game ....just make the flashy gains by making a new version each year to take advantage improvements in hardware and platforms and of course "cheap" underpaid new computer programmer's from univ graduates...there is a reason EA has been voted last year one of the top 5 worse corporations to work for in the world. thus is EA's plan ....must work i read somewhere they own 87% of the game market above opinions are my own Searing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenu [CDEV] Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 I believe EnB subscriptions peaked at about 40,000. Very few compared to most commercially sold MMOs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyp [LDEV] Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 True, but eve survived and grew from that number. The suits at EA just wanted hits, not sleeper hits or mediocre success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimeni Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 I was there, on one last hunt in Antares and I saw the disconnect message. To this day I have still not bought an EA game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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