The Most POPULAR F2P MMO!!

nightwing70

What's the most popular mmorpg which is f2p that has the most population playing? No guild wars please .. (it's great though )

XImpalerX

    I think Silkroad online has the biggest playerbase.

If you want something new with a big population try Perfect World or Mabinogi.

http://www.silkroadonline.net/

http://www.perfectworld.com.my/

http://mabinogi.nexon.net/

 

Arbadacarba

I think the answer is maplestory.

 

• Korea since 2002, 200 thousand subscribers (concurrent users), 14 million subscribers (total)
• Japan since November 2003, 9 million subscribers
• China since December 2004, 25 million subscribers
• Taiwan since July 2005, 3.5 million subscribers
• Thailand since August 2005, 550 thousand subscribers
• South East Asia (mostly Singapore and Malaysia) since June 2005, 550 thousand subscribers
• North America (Global) since May 2005, 3.5 million subscribers

 

BellaH

Maple Story? Silk Road? those are the 2 most complained about games, why does anyone ever play them? gold farmers, lag and bots...jolly good fun!

 

Housam

maplestory....has 72million players world wide

BellaH

Has 72 million accounts....you realize probably 50 million are alts of the original 25 million, just like in every other game!

thedge

I would recommend giving Mythos a try. It's not out of beta yet, but this game is very fun. Think Diablo 2 with a little bit of WoW, Guild Wars, and Fate mixed in. Currently the game is building momentum for open release, but those who have played it can tell you that so far it is a quality product with much more to come.

They have stated that it will remain f2p as well so no worries about paying.

Arbadacarba

 

Originally posted by BellaH


Maple Story? Silk Road? those are the 2 most complained about games, why does anyone ever play them? gold farmers, lag and bots...jolly good fun!
 

 

I didn't say the game was fun.  I was answering the question of the thread.  Maplestory has the most users and is F2P.

 

 

Originally posted by BellaH


Has 72 million accounts....you realize probably 50 million are alts of the original 25 million, just like in every other game!

 

You realize that maplestory isn't the only game where people make alternate accounts?  So you realize you can expect the same thing from every other MMO except they have nowhere near 72 million accounts?  The statistics did not consider that players can have multiple accounts, but it also did not state if multiple accounts were not counted. Therefore, the actual number of players could be less than the announced statistics.

 

 

I don't recommend any MMORPG.  I don't currently play any mmorpg.  I've been lurking around here for almost a year waiting for the right game.

 

 

Originally posted by Seen_Justice


This thread is disgusting for throwing that many inflated and rigged numbers...
It's pretty easy to get people creating meaningless account. Now tell me about the actual number of "active" player who play at least weekly, and then we'll talk.

 

Nobody is throwing anything here.  I'm getting this information from wikipedia and they got it from gamestudy.org.  Sure, the statistics did not consider that players can have multiple accounts; there isn't a convenient way not to count them.  Alternate accounts are going to be detected and accounted for, for all games, until someone can make a better method for conducting population estimations in a virtual world.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplestory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MMORPGs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_MMORPGs

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_MMOGs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiplayer_browser_games

 

On the maplestory-wikipedia page, you can see that they currently have 9 regional versions (South Korea, Japan, China, Global/North American, South-East Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Europe and Hong Kong) and 4 more regional versions on the way (Vietnam, Brazil, India, and South-West Asia).  Their current 9 regional versions have 97 servers and 7 test servers between them.  Their servers are split into channels.  Each channel is a world (identical).  Some of their servers have 20 channels of shoulder-to-shoulder grindage and market places like this:

 

Housam

Originally posted by BellaH


Has 72 million accounts....you realize probably 50 million are alts of the original 25 million, just like in every other game!

i know there are alts..but not that many....

Seen_Justice

This thread is disgusting for throwing that many inflated and rigged numbers...

It's pretty easy to get people creating meaningless account. Now tell me about the actual number of "active" player who play at least weekly, and then we'll talk.

Czzarre

Based on research from MMOCHart.com and MMOData.com

Maplestory, Knight Online, Dofus, Puzzle Pirates, Second Life, Entropia Universe

are the most popular

Hope this helps

Torrential

micona

Been enjoying shaiya lately not too bad for ftp plus it's not mouse control movement , which i hate it has normal awsd movement a la wow ,eq2 etc ...

 

phatpetey

The most popular mmorpgs are Silkroad, maplestory and Flfyff, based on minutes played. You can see this information on the xfire.com site. There you will find the top 10 most played online games. At tenth place you will find Silkroad/Flyff. And early in the mourning when there is no american playing you will find maplestory on ten.