Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.103.30.52-20140219060142/@comment-24560397-20150918205711

Draevan13 wrote: GlassDeviant wrote:

In two days, Skyrim sold 3.4 million copies. In three months, TES:O had 770,000 players. By comparison, that is a resounding whimper, according to Forbes. Less successful than Skyrim =/= a failure. If it had been a failure it would've been shut down by now, and wouldn't be getting weekly patches/fixes and have had multiple updates/expansions.

Also, 770,000 active players in August 2014 doesn't mean it only sold 770,000 copies in 3 months; only that 770,000 people were still playing it after said time period. I'd still call it a failure, because if less people are playing it after three months, that means less people were paying subscription fees, less prophet.