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Q4 2007: NCsoft's subscription numbers & Tabula Rasa's financial flop
NCsoft crunches their numbers every financial quarter and releases this information in the open since they are publicly traded company. With all this information it provides a fantastic insiders look at one of the biggest MMOG publishers in the world. Another Massively writer already reported on the gist from the latest round of numbers, but with all the recent hoopla surrounding Tabula Rasa, let's take a closer look at NCsoft's subscription numbers across the board, and come up with a subscription number for Tabula Rasa. Lineage [Worldwide]: 1,049,763 subscriptions (down 93,936 from Q3)[North America]: 6,414 subscriptions (down 585 from Q3)Lineage 2 [Worldwide]: 926,570 subscriptions (down 4,693 from Q3)[North America & Europe]: 79,986 subscriptions (up 943 from Q3)City of Heroes/Villains [North America & Europe]: 136,250 (-3,063 subs from Q3)Guild Wars[North America & Europe]: 4,878,000 boxes sold (+378,000 from Q3)Subscriptions continue to decline, but the impact isn't very noticeable unless you look at the loss over a greater period. Over a million subscriptions have been lost since the Lineage franchise peaked. No exact subscription numbers are given for Tabula Rasa, but an educated guess is discernable with the available projections given by NCsoft's CFO Lee Jae-ho. Tabula Rasa's given projection stands at 16 million for 2008. Its subscription fee is the standard $15 a month, added up for the year that amounts to $180. 180 into the projected 16 million and you get 88 thousand users.
