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Which game has the largest player base?
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Just wondering.
Back Question: Do you prefer western style character appearance or Asian style?
Back Question: Do you prefer western style character appearance or Asian style?
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I know WoW does. Asking about the 3 games in the polls.
I haven't played Archeage or BDO. But I remember when they first came out, they had a lot of hype and people were flocking to play them.
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Yeah. I play mmorpg's to get away from sex stuff. I want to get lost in a fantasy world, not lust after freaking pixels. Plus, the Asian style art makes the males to feminine.
No clue between the other 2 but both Wow and Lineage have more then either of them if you count active players.
Yeah, but it the silly clothes particularly there (and that all females must wear them while guys usually can choose between skimpy and somewhat normal clothes), besides that the art is generally not bad.
But there's really no way to know for sure.
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a lot of ppl still play.
I self identify as a monkey.
No I am just comparing the three. I thought AA and BDO were pretty big? Players got tired of them that fast? I haven't been keeping up to date with mmorpgs. I switch back and forth from WoW to ESO. I don't worry about the latest piece of crap thats going to flop and steal your money. There is one that is catching my eye, its called Ashes of Creation. I hope its not Asiany. I won't buy it.
Ashes won't be much of anything until about 2020 if you are lucky.
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I have no information about the other two games. I've not followed either.
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O there is a way to know for sure, BDO and AA have forced, gear based, Random Gear that is Cash based with AA being the worst of the 2, that always equals low population compared to a mmo with no cash shop based random gear, forced pvp, ect like ESO.
Eso def got the largest pop with pc/ps4/xbone combined!
Most of my friends when I started playing mmo's were playing wow. All of them including myself have now moved on. Mostly playing eso or gw2 now. I think wow is slowly dying, finally.
Actually Wow has the largest subscriber player base. MINECRAFT has the largest player base by far
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My wild guess is that BDO will struggle in retaining any sort of mainstream audience in the west. The end-game is very grindy, to the point where it almost exclusively appeals to the hardcore gamer with a lot of time. ESO is a lot more mainstream (casual) in that sense.
Sounds about right.
I also suspect ESO beats both of the others hands down. Of course as others pointed out, being released on consoles as well as PC gives it an additional edge too. It'll be interesting to see how BDO does with their own console release when it comes (since they are working on it).
As for the other question... it very much depends on the game in question. I can appreciate both aesthetics. That being said, if it comes to graphics... both BDO and AA leave ESO in the dust. So things are reversed there lol.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
Worldwide I still would say ESO, last year it was fully localized in Japanese. And I believe NA/EU eso (pc/ps4/xbone) got more than bdo worldwide.