What Is The Current U.o Population I Am Reading Post Of Some People Asking Where Everyone Is So I Figured Is There A Up To Date Sencors On The Current U.o Population

No official figures are released, from what I know
But, last June it was reported to have slumped down to the 130k mark, from 250k at AOS' launch.
Another chart was recently posted on a different site, which suggests it's gone down to 70k, but I don't know how legit this other site is.

At That Rate U.o Will Not Be Around To Long ..what Was The Highest Amount Of People And When ..adam If You Know

It went upto about 230k, then peaked at 250k when AOS came out, but went down hill after that.

Again this is going by a third party site at - www.mmorpgchart.com

But I was told by an EA rep the guy who creates those charts, has a "Good source"
So I can only assume it's accurate.

And you figger into that the rate of multiple account ownership. Not good.

Alot of anti AOS'ers use the declining numbers as proof that AOS was responsible
I don't believe that to be the SOLE reason, but I do believe it's part of it
I believe AOS and the massive surge of player run shards to be the main reasons for the decline
Obviously newer games coming out were part of it to.

Lets look at this a bit. If there are 130k subscriptions accounts and lets say they all only pay $10 per account this is still bringing EA $1.3 mil per year.

Although there are maintenance cost, you know all the servers used are paid for long ago. Most game publishers would consider a single platform game (released on PC only) a success if it grossed $1.3 mil in sales a year and would expect each year there after to diminish in sales.

I am not to worried about EA pulling the plug on UO any time soon. I would expect if the money EA is giving to the KR project and the new expansion pack don't pay for themselves we will see a cut in production staff, however I don't see a company cutting off $1.3 mil in sales anytime soon. I would guess that they will milk the subscription until the end.

Just my two cents worth.

Yeah, I would agree with AOS and player shards being a lot of the problem.

That's actually $1.3 million a month.

Hmm i dont know what the problem was with aos, i think that it was everquest and wow, and some of the other new games u dont play online. But i didnt see where u figured in the cost of all the new stuff we have bought. Since aos, i have six accounts and i do pay the 10 dollars a month for each, thank goodness, or i could not have them. But i have bought ever upgrade, boxes or whatever u want to call it. I know ppl are having a lot of money problems and that doesnt help any, but i know a lot of ppl are coming back now. So we will see.