The LEGO Group has not released global sales of the game or subscription numbers.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
Rather than generating revenue from micro-transactions, the LEGO Group will continue to rely on monthly subscriptions for the game.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
Mads Ovlisen, chairman of the toymaking Lego Group, has been inviting Americans to take a look (FORBES, July 24, 2006).
In February of this year, the LEGO Group purchased NetDevil, the development team that created LEGO Universe, from Gazillion Entertainment.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
The LEGO Group is the latest video game publisher to venture into this free-to-play business with its LEGO Universe massively multiplayer online (MMO) game.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
Michael Pachter, video game analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities, said the LEGO Group is likely targeting tens of millions of players with this new business model.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
The LEGO Group had also gotten too far away from the core values it had been building on for the better part of a century.
"The LEGO Group has designed a completely new version of LEGO MINDSTORMS, building upon the same DNA, to excite and challenge an audience of children who have grown up with technology, " said Camilla Bottke, LEGO MINDSTORMS project lead at The LEGO Group.
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There is no English language evidence of this group before this Lego storm.
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According to video game tracking firm The NPD Group, just over 65, 000 copies of LEGO Universe have been sold in the U.S. since launch.
FORBES: LEGO Universe Latest Online Game to Adopt Free-to-Play Business Model
Pink Stinks, a UK campaign group that raises concerns over gender stereotyping of children, said Lego was perpetuating a narrow and limited set of ideas.
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