As he said #3 open PVP game. There are not many open PVP games out there. Darkfall has got the money back it cost to make the game and AV has a new office building and his own animation studio. So i think yes they were successful. If AV would also stick abit more to there pre beta ideas this game would be much more successful but DF is only a light sandbox and atm REALLy light
Hopefully Xsyon will be a real sandbox with a good fair combat system