Comments on: Is World of Warcraft really the most popular MMO?

By: Zangain

Zangain — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:41:23 +0000

Though not of the same calibre as WoW or L2. Maplestory has approx 50 Mil active subscribers.

By: Quick hard facts (like my love) « Danc7’s Weblog

Quick hard facts (like my love) « Danc7’s Weblog — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:39:47 +0000

[...] the numbers generally support WoW as the biggest MMO in the world. Important qualification, though: only 4 million are based in the West and monthly subscribers, while its 4 million Chinese players only pay roughly [...]

By: John Warcraft Gold Sorensen

John Warcraft Gold Sorensen — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:50:06 +0000

It’s become a matter of definition which “game” is the biggest but if you start defining a game as MMORPG or MNO or whatever I think you should start dividing them in “fanatsy games”, “real life simulators” and so on. Also, is there any statistics on diferent ages playing different games?

By: Terbaik.Net » Blog Archive » South Korean spend 800 - 850 million euro for online games

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:52:56 +0000

[...] to be played is a Massive Multi-Player Online (MMO) games such as World of Warcraft, Lineage I/II, Habbo Hotel, and Second [...]

By: The Asia Tech » South Korean spend 800 - 850 million euro for online games

The Asia Tech » South Korean spend 800 - 850 million euro for online games — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:46:40 +0000

[...] to be played is a Massive Multi-Player Online (MMO) games such as World of Warcraft, Lineage I/II, Habbo Hotel, and Second [...]

By: guild wars rules!

guild wars rules! — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:53:44 +0000

compare guild wars and WoW that would be a great combination

By: Big G Makes WoW Gold

Big G Makes WoW Gold — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:38:25 +0000

When there are as many ads selling Habbo Bucks (or whatever the currency is called) as there are selling WoW gold, I’ll believe they’ve passed WoW. ;)

By: WoW Miner

WoW Miner — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:29:22 +0000

Interesting write up. I know WoW is extremely popular, and using the definitions of what is an MMO, you could say alot about alot of games.

One thing to mention though is that everyone knows Wow. My mother knows what it is for crying out loud. There are primetime commericals for it. There are 7 people in my company playing it right now with active subscriptions. One other guy plays FFXI and 2 play Halo online.

Alot of the other communities make fun of WoW, and I have played about 10 other MMOs in my time. The problem is that these other games are just not as fun as WoW, so let them with their sub 50k subscribers make fun of WoW, im sure Blizzard is too busy raking in money to even pay attention.

By: Fanface

Fanface — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:03:36 +0000

So when does it become a game and not an IM? “Games” like these, provide autonomy, but no actual sense of completion, such as completing a quest in World of Warcraft could. I admittably haven’t tried Habbo Hotel… and it seems a lot of people haven’t which makes these claims seem odd to me, but i’ve played lots of games like this and they just seem more expression than gameplay…

By: synical

synical — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:29:39 +0000

Good article, you make some good points and coming from other non-WoW MMO’s I can tell you, most people think of WoW as a bit of a joke.

One problem, no such thing as a ‘western hemisphere’ only North and South.

By: Elvis

Elvis — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:23:34 +0000

Check out this voicemail greeting of Orc from Warcraft saying “Leave me alone!”

Using (link) , this is a good joke for your friend that calls you too much asking you to play games!

hah

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:21:48 +0000

I think so…lol…

By: gonharrea on my joystick

gonharrea on my joystick — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:05:43 +0000

What was that one MMORPG that was on Prodigy dial up/BB service? Or was it Compuserves?? Don’t rember but, it was OG fo real!!

By: Dearest Copernicus

Dearest Copernicus — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:57:59 +0000

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By: GigaOM GigaOM’s Top Ten Most Popular MMOs «

GigaOM GigaOM’s Top Ten Most Popular MMOs « — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:40:07 +0000

[...] Habbo Hotel, released 2000 - 7.5 million active users. The Finland-based “social game” MMO popular [...]

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GigaOM GigaOM’s Top Ten Most Popular MMOs « — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:30:43 +0000