Meh. I'm one of those one million accounts, but I don't sub to either game. No doubt, there are lots more like me. Without some kind of active sub data, this is pretty meaningless.

Honestly, given how much hype surrounded CO prior to launch and then how much more hype surrounded STO -- not to mention the fact that the Cryptic site has been up for a good two to three years now -- it's really not very impressive at all.

They're basically saying that over the course of a couple years and the release of two games they've managed to pique the interest of only about 5%-8% of the total MMO player base.

WAR hit a million beta tester applications and did so in a shorter period of time, all before the game had barely even started inviting testers.

Sorry, Cryptic but let's be fair. Even if I was in love with your games I still wouldn't be very impressed by this announcement. What's more, the fact that you tried to spin it in your initial announcement as specifically being all this huge enthusiasm for STO just shows me how deceptive your practices are. The fact that you've since printed a clarification merely reminds me of Bill Clinton saying that "it depends on what your definition of 'is' is."

@aurickle

I dunno - I wouldn't mind having that many customers ;).

Verit
They're not customers. They're people who merely signed up on their site. That's all.

Yeah, and sadly I know three of those accounts are mine...
(forgot the password of the first two accounts, then made a 3rd one to register a beta key.)

One of those accounts is mine too, because I signed up for Champions Online closed beta (I didn't get in) and then briefly played it in open beta. The only time I've ever given Cryptic any money was years ago via NCSoft, back when Cryptic were still involved with City of Heroes - which I still play (and I am really glad that Cryptic are no longer involved!).

Poor Cryptic - they can't even get it right when they're fluffing up statistics - at least when Blizzard quote a potentially spurious number they just stay quiet afterwards and don't try to explain it. Sure, I personally prefer transparency, but being misleading about a number and then undermining your "exaggeration" like Cryptic have is just daft.