MMO Facts and Figures

[Miktar]

(This is an old post, I figured I'd re-post for posterity)

Scions of Fate
Operator: Beijing 17game Network
Web: http://fate.netgame.com/
Model: Virtual Asset Purchase

Scions of Fate, also known as YulGang, is a Korean MMORPG which boasts 9 million registered players and a peak of 215,000 concurrent online users, although some sources report a peak of 600,000 concurrent online users (not single-shard, but across all shards).

The Legend of Mir 3
Operator: Wemade Ent
Web: http://www.legendofmir.net
Model: Pay-to-play

Mir 3 holds the Guinness world record for simultaneous players, roughly 750,000 concurrent, across shards.

Lineage II
Operator: NCSoft
Web: http://www.lineage2.com
Model: Pay-to-play

NCSoft claims that Lineage 2 has over 14 million 'customers'.

Maple Story
Operator: Wizet
Web: http://www.maplestory.com
Model: Virtual Asset Purchase

MapleStory has a combined total of over 50 million players in all of its versions, with over 18 million subscribers in China.

Second Life
Operator: Lindin Labs
Web: http://www.secondlife.com
Model: Virtual Asset Purchase/Pay-to-play

Total registered users now number 3.1 million in Second Life, up from 124,000 a year ago. At any given time, ten to thirty thousand of those users are online and logged in to the world.


So what does it all mean?

Nothing, really. PR agencies make those numbers do what they want them to. Personally, I can't stand that kind of manipulation, even though I will concede to the financial benefits reaped from such lies. I've left the obvious MMO out of the above list, because I don't want to start another month-long argument about a certain 8 million people killing boars while listening to Eye of the Tiger and occasionally checking World of Whorecraft (actual website, NSFW, I won't link it).

[kHayne]

9 million now. Apparently.

/poke. ;)

[Miktar]

Like I said, the post is old.

[cYn]

World of Whorecraft needs a bigger budget so as to afford some CGI and more variety in the body paint. From what I've heard on the street. Rumours on the internets. I quite enjoyed Maple Story, 2D platformer goodness.

Any Guild Wars stats(even though its not officially an mmorpg)?

[Miktar]

ArenaNet are quite mum about their stats, I can't really get a proper bead on it. Lemme do some research.

Nah, I can't get a new number at all.

[kHayne]

Last I heard it was 'over a million'. Which is respectable considering it's not really a mmo.
/braces for the impending fallout

[Miktar]

It was 'over a million' in 2005.

[kHayne]

Ah, but the question is, is it still 'over a million'?
Has GW membership grown? Or decreased?

Seriously, I don't know, because they won't release the figures.

[Miktar]

I believe it has grown quite a bit, I would hazard it at around the 5 mill mark easily.

[sneaK]

Can anyone find me statistics on the current amount of players in World of Warcraft?

[Miktar]

9 million, sneak. kHayne said so a few posts up.

Or at least, that's what Blizzard is telling people.

What the truth is, nobody will ever know.

[MrDeVil_909]

Last I heard GW went over 3 million sales. This was on their website late last year (http://www.guildwars.com/events/press/releases/pressrelease-2006-12-13.php). Of course many people have bought 3 titles each, and some even have second accounts for item mules.

I would also guess the 4-5 million sales mark. How many are currently active players I wouldn't have a clue.

[Miktar]

"some even have second accounts for item mules"

No, they don't, since it's way cheaper to just buy more character slots.

[MrDeVil_909]

Not many, but a few people on the GW forums I used to frequent claimed they did.

[Mic]

well... I wonder how the numbers would look if the greedy publishers would actually release the real number... but what is really the classification of an MMO... the amount of online players or that it doesn't have a single player side... or that there is a mass of people playing on the same realm (map)?

[0blivios]

Agh. im scared. so ure telling me that, ill need a moment to get this of my chest, Runescape (old crappy graphics , but i must say the leveling system is, m in my personal opinion better than any game.) has more membs than GW. Aaaaaghh. WTF? hmm maby it's just becose no one really like GW, I have factions and NF and i guess i am pretty bored of the game. but people of the sadistic world we live in, that will all change when GW2 is relesed, yayay

[Miktar]

Agh. im scared. so ure telling me that, ill need a moment to get this of my chest, Runescape (old crappy graphics , but i must say the leveling system is, m in my personal opinion better than any game.) has more membs than GW. Aaaaaghh. WTF? hmm maby it's just becose no one really like GW, I have factions and NF and i guess i am pretty bored of the game. but people of the sadistic world we live in, that will all change when GW2 is relesed, yayay

No, Runescape has more members than Guild Wars because:

1) It's free
2) It runs in a browser
3) It's a way to waste time at work

[Mic]

No, Runescape has more members than Guild Wars because:

1) It's free
2) It runs in a browser
3) It's a way to waste time at work

wow... in allot of posts you like always say... direct/indirect... that you don't work (or you take long brakes but work hard in between)... that reminds me of the comic back in the NAG a few years ago were they like show the ed not working but finally does somehting... (no offense mik)

[Miktar]

...

I *almost* understand what you're saying there.

[kHayne]

P.S...


while listening to Eye of the Tiger and occasionally checking World of Whorecraft (actual website, NSFW, I won't link it).


For The Lulz! (http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21297594.shtml)

[Miktar]

Yeah, I caught that a few days ago - hilarity! :P