Wrong. There were over a million free accounts created on the website/forum, however they only said "over 100k" subscribers at launch.

and keeping in mind that was also over CO and STO.

Glad I'm wrong at that too. They REALLY blew it.

All the articles I can find only say STO. Here is an example:

http://kotaku.com/5463972/star-trek-...million-served

http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02...lion-accounts/

I believe forum accounts are shared between games. Aren't they?

I believe so, though I'm sure Cryptic has a way of tracking which site they were created on.

At that point, they didn't.

That said, I'm betting at least 80% of that number was people interested in STO. Because super-hero games are even more niche than sci-fi games and City of Heroes basically couldn't have more than 300k people even interested in playing at its peak. Which is impressive because comic books themselves are considered a hit if they sell 60k copies a month.

The flipside is, I'm also sure the Trek brand attracted people who didn't know what an MMO was, who'd never played one, who'd never played computer games, who'd never pay a monthly fee to play (TrekMovie was full of people in that category), who were hoping this would be an improved Star Trek community site, any number of things.

i'M NOT WORRIED.