Perfect World has more then 20 million active players. So LoTRO and Aion not even close. There are few other F2P asian grinders with >5 mil playerbase.
Yea like why hasnt anyone said something about perfect world? Its got a huge player base in asia of like 10mil+ at least and that was bfore it went to the global version. Its f2p as well which would probably mean more players if its a quality game (which it is)
And yes i do play this game so im kind of favouriting it but it really is huge.
There's no way perfect world has over 20million active accounts, in there advertisements they say they have 50 million registered accounts so you mean to tell me pretty much half the people that registered play the game actively? Also if that was the case people would be taking perfect world numbers into consideration when talking about the big dogs and not blizzards.
You also have to remember that GW has sold a few million boxes (can't remember the number, but I think it was more than 5) and you have to pay to play it. Although not all would call it a MMO... You also forgot Champions Online, not sure how many players it got though. Regardless though all of this is just speculations, to truly answer the question someone need to find facts about it.
Just to be clear here, Guild Wars is not a Pay to Play game. P2P suggests that you pay a monthly fee to continue playing a game. Guild Wars is a one time payment (and any of the expansions you decide to grab alongside it).
Champions Online isn't all that high up there as far as a player base goes.
Your point being...? It still has a lot of players playing it and I fail to see any implication by the OP to include only P2P MMOs.
I think it was around 7 million sold copies.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been-Wayne Gretzky
This sort of infomation is subject to company hype and is pure guess work. And who cares, as long as your game has a decent population that's all you need?
I hate WoW because it made my plush hamster kill himself, created twin clones of Hitler, punched Superboy Prime in reality, stared my dog down, spoiled my grandmother, assimilated me into the Borg, then made me into a real boy, just to make me a woman again.
If Perfect World was doing that well in numbers it would be talked about on a frequent basis in large gaming scheme. We would see it all over E3 all time jus tlike WoW. there would be interviews out there with the lead developer of the game and all sorts of other hype over the game. This forum would have advertsiements for the game year around.
I honestly believe Lineage 2 and FF11 have more active players than perfect world.
I doubt any F2P game has as many paying customers as even a decently populated subscription game. Lots of people playing yes, but not so many suckered into paying through the nose to keep up with the Jones's.
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Aion and FFXI(has around 500k subs) are on up there I'm sure...
Other than subscription base I don't keep up with many games
Yea like why hasnt anyone said something about perfect world? Its got a huge player base in asia of like 10mil+ at least and that was bfore it went to the global version. Its f2p as well which would probably mean more players if its a quality game (which it is)
And yes i do play this game so im kind of favouriting it but it really is huge.
Most players...Maple Story, Runescape, Free Realms, Wizard 101, etc.
Unfortunatly Runescape...
I promise you a logical death.
There's no way perfect world has over 20million active accounts, in there advertisements they say they have 50 million registered accounts so you mean to tell me pretty much half the people that registered play the game actively? Also if that was the case people would be taking perfect world numbers into consideration when talking about the big dogs and not blizzards.
Just to be clear here, Guild Wars is not a Pay to Play game. P2P suggests that you pay a monthly fee to continue playing a game. Guild Wars is a one time payment (and any of the expansions you decide to grab alongside it).
Champions Online isn't all that high up there as far as a player base goes.
Your point being...? It still has a lot of players playing it and I fail to see any implication by the OP to include only P2P MMOs.
I think it was around 7 million sold copies.
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been -Wayne Gretzky
This sort of infomation is subject to company hype and is pure guess work. And who cares, as long as your game has a decent population that's all you need?
Asheron's Call 2 and Tabula Rasa.
Just don't tell anyone.
I hate WoW because it made my plush hamster kill himself, created twin clones of Hitler, punched Superboy Prime in reality, stared my dog down, spoiled my grandmother, assimilated me into the Borg, then made me into a real boy, just to make me a woman again.
If Perfect World was doing that well in numbers it would be talked about on a frequent basis in large gaming scheme. We would see it all over E3 all time jus tlike WoW. there would be interviews out there with the lead developer of the game and all sorts of other hype over the game. This forum would have advertsiements for the game year around.
I honestly believe Lineage 2 and FF11 have more active players than perfect world.
I doubt any F2P game has as many paying customers as even a decently populated subscription game. Lots of people playing yes, but not so many suckered into paying through the nose to keep up with the Jones's.
how many Active players does Guild Wars have?