If Darkfall is stable it will beat most MMO numbers.
What is so niche about it? It's a MMORPG based in a fantasy world with a questing system supposable like wow and aoc. You seriously think the MAJORITY of dorks who buy MMORPG's care about ANYTHING else. Dude you can play as a werewolf. That's 100k subscriptions right there. You can be a pirate, thats' 100k subscriptions right there. People love games that let them be what they want to be. People LOVE sandbox style games, and there hasn't been a sandbox MMO since Second Life. You know the game soooooooo shitty that nobody could possible play it. A game catered to a REAL NICHE market (programmers, artists, and animators). How many subscribers does it have? 57,000 PAYING premium subscribers. With over 2,000,000 registered players and 800,000 active members.
Darkfall will be successful if it can be as stable as they claim and... exists.