You might say that it's an accomplishment in itself to pry a few World of Warcraft players away to try a different MMO.

Recently in an Activision conference call Blizzard let flow some figures of their own in regards to AoC's subscribers. An editorial was released on Edge Online about Activision Blizzard earnings call on last Thursday.

Blizzard president Mike Morhaime commented during an Activision Blizzard earnings call on Thursday,

"Age of Conan released with some initial success a couple of months ago, and we did see some of our players leave to try the game. However, we've seen about 40 percent of those players return to World of Warcraft."

In about a month's worth of time, Funcom's Age of Conan garnered 700,000 subscribers, according to the developer.

Morhaime said that players that leave WoW are often drawn back because of the content and service that Blizzard provides.

"Any massively multiplayer online game that launches today isn't just competing with the amount and breadth of content that we launched with back in 2004," Morhaime stated.

It also be supposed during the conference that another factor which brings many of the lost players back into Blizzard's grasp should be the launch of WotLK between October and December.

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Resource: Edge Online

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