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Total Number of Global MMO Users - Poll!

CydoneCydone Member Posts: 171
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I have been trying to figure out how many people are using virtual or synthetic worlds, including sorts like Second Life, Guild Wars, Silk Road etc

Im not talking active paying subscriptions, im talking active global number of people using or playing every MMO out there, again including social mods, muds, worlds and what have you.

Please consider only Persistant 100+ user worlds. Not FPS' and Battlenet kinds.. Im talking WORLDS :)

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  • godpuppetgodpuppet Member Posts: 1,416
    10-20m, I guess. Most of those being from Korea.

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  • Cabe2323Cabe2323 Member Posts: 2,939
    I think there was a number floating around at one point that some 40million people were playing on battlenet.  So if you include the free to play games like that and hte pay to play games I would guess its closer to 100 million then it is to 10 million people world wide. 

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  • CydoneCydone Member Posts: 171
    Well, if WoW has 8 million and the two Lineage games at least have 4 million, then we have 12 million in only two games. and there must be around 100 MMOs out there by now, or close.
  • godpuppetgodpuppet Member Posts: 1,416
    Originally posted by Cabe2323

    I think there was a number floating around at one point that some 40million people were playing on battlenet.  So if you include the free to play games like that and hte pay to play games I would guess its closer to 100 million then it is to 10 million people world wide. 
    Battlenet isnt an MMO.

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  • QSatuQSatu Member UncommonPosts: 1,796
    I would say 20-30 mil., but closer to 30.
  • GhozerGhozer Member Posts: 35
    I think in total, its < 10mil - but not far below...

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  • CleffyIICleffyII Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,440
    I would say around 40 million.  There are atleast 26 million in Korea because a few of there games report 26 million accounts, and in Korea you can only make 1 account per person due to the KSSN thing when signing up.

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  • SorrowSorrow Member Posts: 1,195
    Originally posted by CleffyII

    I would say around 40 million.  There are atleast 26 million in Korea because a few of there games report 26 million accounts, and in Korea you can only make 1 account per person due to the KSSN thing when signing up.
     Heh easy enough to fake. I have accounts on most of their games.

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  • FruityFunCakFruityFunCak Member Posts: 8

     

    Originally posted by Cydone

    Well, if WoW has 8 million and the two Lineage games at least have 4 million, then we have 12 million in only two games. and there must be around 100 MMOs out there by now, or close.

     

    Lineage2 has 6 million players Lineage1 had 2 mill plus last i heard

  • CydoneCydone Member Posts: 171
    Two years ago, edward castronova made an estimate of 30 million.. Id say its at least between 30-40 million. And rising fast.
  • CydoneCydone Member Posts: 171

    bump

  • HensenLirosHensenLiros Member Posts: 461
    More than 40 millions for sure.

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  • IsometrixIsometrix Member UncommonPosts: 256
    http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/setview/features/loadFeature/1107/gameID/275

    MMORPG.com:
    Tell us about Scions of Fate’s success in Asia. How well do you think the game will translate over to the rest of the world?

    Scions of Fate:

    Scions of Fate did REALLY well in Asia. We had over 70 million users with concurrent users breaking over 600,000. In Korea, it received the Presidential award for being the best MMORPG of that year, and it’s STILL going strong as we speak.


    And that's 1 game.
  • CydoneCydone Member Posts: 171
    vote people, vote! :)
  • fulmanfufulmanfu Member Posts: 1,523

    does this include online poker, games like yahoo! and pogo ?

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