A heroic million inhabit Champions Online

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Actually, 250,000 subscribers would be a very lackluster figure for this early in the game's life. It's certainly enough to keep the servers up and running, but nowhere close to enough for "hit" status.

Given that CoX is coming out soon with Going Rogue, as well as DC in the near future and Marvel on the horizon, CO's current figures do not bode well for the game in the long term. Especially with retention being low due to how quickly you can reach max level and a real lack of high end content once you get there.

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I'm not sure that it bodes well for any of them long term. How many people could be interested in playing a super hero MMO? Now divide them among three games in not necessarily equal portions. I think that we're headed for Super Hero MMO market glut in 2010. As a fan of the genre, it's going to be a great year. I'm not sure that the same can be said for the folks that are running those games though. It's going to be dog eat dog.

As an aside, CoH's recent efforts to move the game forward are really impressive considering how old it is. If Going Rogue delivers on the features they're promising, then NCSoft certainly isn't being shy about competing with CO and DCUO

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