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Any idea if all of these track user hours? Subscriptions are fine, but as you point out, their value also varies. In addition to the different pricing structures, someone might have a sub and not log in for months. Or people might share account. In both cases it doesn’t give us a sense of how engaged people are with the application.

If you’re interested in hearing more about how these companies are making alternative business models work, I’d encourage you to come to the Virtual Goods Summit at Stanford (http://www.vgsummit.com). We’ll have a number of the companies mentioned in this article talk about how they’ve grown their businesses and successfully deployed new models.

Xfire actually puts together a monthly collection of stats on the actual user-minutes for the top games on their service. That shows the relative engagement of these “top MMOs” - and a lot you haven’t really hear of. It’s not the whole subscriber base of MMOs, but with a couple million registered users, Xfire’s a pretty good sample.

You can see their MMO stats here - good stuff. Stats going back for a long time.

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The numbers for at least one of those are WAY WAY off: Puzzle Pirates isn’t even close to 1.5 million active users. The real numbers are less than 10% of that.

Email me for clarification if you want. Dan (Three Rings’ CEO) and I ran roundtables together at GDC the last couple of years and I’ve heard it from his mouth.

–matt

You also left out some like Maple Story, for instance, which has crossed 50 million registered users and has about 3 million active users. (I seriously doubt that Guild Wars has 2 million -active- players incidentally but that’s a gut-level reaction on my part rather than hard info).

–matt

Feel free to delete this comment, but you’ll find this useful: (link)

Note the first comment in the thread from Daniel, for instance. 25-30k paying customers. Believe me, that doesn’t translate into 1.47 non-paying additional users. ;)

–matt

Sourcing the publicly available data would have been appreciated.

I may be wrong but isn’t Final Fantasy 11 a MMO?

Im surprised that it isn’t listed. Maybe it’s not as big as I thought.

Oops… I re-read the article again.

“They all are Mac-friendly/Web-based with exception of Guild Wars.”

and

“Other popular MMOs are sure to exist, particularly new-comers and non-localized Asian games that are sure to grow.”

I am pretty sure FF11 is not a Mac game.

Where did you get these numbers? Thin air? Lineage I/II has way more subscribers. Final Fantasy and City of Heroes is way up there on the list of subscribers as well. Try spending some time researching what you post instead of where to lay the ads out on this site.

And isn’t referencing to Wikipedia a cop out? Either the WP data has a reference, or it doesn’t. It’s not a primary source either way. I hate to say it, but it’s sloppiness like this that gets blogs their poor reputation in journalism.

What about Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom? I know they have at least 2 million players that are active.

Acclaim’s Bots has over a million active users as well.

This list doesn’t seem very complete.

Is this a Habbo Hotel ad?

Actually, Guild Wars is published in NCSoft from Korea. However, the development studio is ArenaNet in the United States. Also, one cannot determine the number of active users from Guild Wars because of the lack of monthly fees. There have been around 3 million accounts sold. The author pulled that 2 million out of his hat, not even ArenaNet keeps track of the numbers of active users within the past month.

This study is completely and utterly flawed. ACTIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS means people that actively play. WoW is still on top, sure. However, you are counting INACTIVE user accounts that still exist. FYI: Guild Wars accounts stay FOREVER. There is NO FEE, so the account never goes inactive. Habbo is the same way. You might as well forget about EVERY SINGLE FREE MMO OUT THERE, with the exception of ones that cost a fee to download or obtain the disks. The only mmo right now that is “free” and “good” is Guild wars.

Here’s another thing. Final Fantasy XI is the most widely STUCK WITH mmorpg on the market. Their user base has dropped a bit in the last year, HOWEVER, people who play ffxi almost NEVER STOP PLAYING FFXI. I don’t know the actual numbers of all new subscribers to other mmorpgs that quit in like the FIRST WEEK… but it’s a HUGE percentage. FFXI escapes that somehow, and people who start playing it generally REALLY REALLY enjoy it and continue to play it for YEARS. The people that quit immediately are casual gamers who find it “too hard”. FFXI is truly the only hardcore mmo on the market short of EQ and EQII, which has much less players.

Lord of the rings online has been out for a VERY VERY VERY Short time, however, it’s user base and people who stick with it is STAGGERING for a game that has been out for 3 months.

Once again, your article is completely flawed. NOBODY has the whole truth on mmorpg subscriptions numbers because the companies keep those things secret to a) coax new subscribers because of popularity and b) appease their shareholders with huge numbers.

It’s interesting how very few of these are actual role playing games.

Diablo II isn’t on that list? Interesting…

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

The numbers are, to the best of my knowledge, accurate, though public data can be fudgy at times. Hopefully the italicized methodology and sources clear the air a bit, but we’ll keep digging for better accuracy and likely revise the list with time.

So, in other words, when you only count games rather than flash-based websites, Guild Wars is number 2. Not bad going!

Interesting list. MMOs are going mainstream for sure. A far cry from the MUD days.

Pre-CU FTW

“games rather than flash-based websites”

That’s an odd distinction, but a fairly typical industry assumption.

It’s a great initial list, Blake. As any writer knows, top tens will inevitably provoke a slew of “Hey what about…” responses, some fair, though a lot that were already considered and discarded for one reason or another. I suspect an updated version will reflect both.

Matt’s correct; these numbers are well off our active player count, depending of course on how you define ‘active’. It’s more like a couple of hundred thousand for Puzzle Pirates.

Some of the other numbers I think may be a bit off. I don’t think Habbo has 7.5M active players, but more like 7.5M registered users. We have 3M of those!

I’m the father of 3 kids (ages 5, 7, 9) and I have to say that the Webkinz phenomenom has taken my household by storm. And it’s viral, it has spread to our school and community. Kids talk. Kids don’t just buy one, they want to have multiple webkinz animals (that’s the genius of the real world beanie baby with ID twist). My kids enjoy the off-line and on-line experience of webkinz and sharing it with their friends. It is a powerful model, hat’s off to the Webkinz team.

One key point left out of this interesting article is that none of these really are games - even WoW is the most bare-bones of game design following the carrot/stick model and that’s it. Why waste time on these lame entertainment venues when you can be playing far more rewarding games out there? Not to mention that the time and cash you’re dumping into these money pits (for little return, I might add), is time and money that’s being shuttled away from fantastic single-player or non-MMO style multi-player games that you’re missing out on. This has the negative effect of shrinking OUR industry (you’re not just affecting yourself by your actions) which sucks for everyone. So think seriously before you blindly support one of these non-game money pits. Nuff said.

“Guild Wars, released 2005 - 2 million active users Another MMORPG made by the popular NCsoft out of South Korea.”

MADE by ArenaNet (North America)
PUBLISHED by NCSoft (South Korea)
thats a bit difference!!!

the 2 million active users is also misleading, since ArenaNet (nor NCSoft) never released the number of active users in gw. only the number of purchased accounts.

someone stated that city of heros and FFXI should be on there, but in fact their populations are much lower than 1 million each, im sure that lineage I/II together have nearly 4 million subs together however
i had no idea about all those social games though if those numbers are accurate

@”Isn’t referencing to Wikipedia a cop out?”

Not trying to be sloppy, I just scoured as many sources as I could when compiling the list, a majority of which came from the not-always-perfect Wikipedia.

“It’s interesting how very few of these are actual role playing games.”

Hence the use of “MMO” which is more encompassing. That’s part of the point, MMOs transcends gaming, though Blizzard still leads the pack.

@”It’s more like a couple of hundred thousand for Puzzle Pirates.”

Thanks, Daniel. We’ll update our figures.

I’d always watched MMOGchart.com for this kind of data, but they havn’t been updated in many moons.

It wouldn’t supprise me if the Guild Wars numbers are based on box sales, as there’s no true subscription.

I also have a hard time viewing something like Gaia Online as an MMO. It’s more like a web community with flash games. shrug

Guild Wars is made by ArenaNet not NC Soft..

Maplestory deserves a place in this list; it has over 3 million active players.

I’m surpprised that entropia universe wasn’t listed somewhere in this article (or even in the comments).

(link)

Entropia Universe is another immensely popular MMORPG that has a real-world currency system (you can make real money in the game by selling virtual stuff, and in turn, you can put real money on your virtual account to buy virtual goods).

Guild Wars would be hard to judge by box sales. Many people bought all 3 games and connected them to the same account. So really out of the 3 games bought only 1 account is registered. I guess they could go by accounts registered, but many people have multiple accounts to…

it’s “Linden Lab”

not…

“Linden Labs”

Assessing MMOG player numbers is a dark art, and this inaccurate list doesn’t help. Many figures on this list look grossly inflated. Second Life, in particular, is notorious for inflating its user stats, as Clay Shirky and others have documented. This list also omits many hugely popular Asian MMOs, though that’s justifiable in this context. But it also overlooks some “boutique” MMOs larger than Second Life, such as Hattrick. And if you’re talking about Club Penguin and Webkinz, how can you omit Neopets?

Those looking for data somewhat more reliable than Wikipedia (for heaven’s sake!) may want to try MMOGData.com ( (link) ). And my article “Boutique MMOGs” appeared in issue #75 of the online gaming magazine The Escapist ( (link) ).

“Second Life, in particular, is notorious for inflating its user stats, as Clay Shirky”

No, that wasn’t exactly Clay’s objection, and it’s about six months out of date. The 500K SL figures are taken from last month’s stats. An inflated SL figure would be to report that there are now 7.2 million Residents. Which there are, but most of those aren’t active unique users.

Habbo has publicly given out monthly uniques in the millions.

Using monthly uniques is probably the best way to compare here… I agree that this list is mixing some numbers a bit… I don’t think GW has that many monthly uniques, for example.

LOTRO’s stickiness after three months is a meaningless figure… average subscriber duration is measured in multiples of that :)

The overall point, however, is one that I have made several times — the top MMOs do not at all look like the game industry’s notable MMO titles.

lol. Knight Online and Silk Road Online has 20 million users especially in China, Vietnam, Japan, Turkey, Russia. ur losers u silly wowers

Yes, how can you forget Neopets? On their site, they boast 141,094,836 “owners” but this is really the number of accounts created. And since each person can create a maximum of five accounts, per email address, that means that there are approximately 28,000,000 users online from around the world!

“Subscriptions work well for MMORPG games like WoW that are more akin to crack cocaine than mere entertainment”. People who make ridiculous comments like this without any actual medical or scientific evidence are an embarassment to the Tech community in general. Will you please stop wasting our time and fueling the fires of reactionist ignoramus luddites with your ridiculous blogs and build an argument based on some REAL FACTS for a change.

Web2.0 - Opening the floodgates to failure and conjecture. What a wonderful age we will in.

TB.

Ehm… Why some of those MMO listed have links to their home while others not? ;-)
Just to know. :-p

I wonder where the thrice-accursed Disney ToonTown ranks in this list? I say “thrice-accursed” because my wife’s “crack cocaine” addiction to everything Dismal is making my life hell.

If Habbo Hotel is an MMO then so is Myspace…

Habbo Hotel is little more than social web space.

Webkins virtual pets are cool — and the king of them all is the clydesdale webkinz!

POGO would not usually come under this heading ( no 3d environment etc) however, it does share some of the same characteristics as many of the environments here.

Players compete, co-operate and chat. They work to complete tasks, gaining “badges” rather than gold or in-game items. And, importantly, many of them subscribe, paying real cash to avoid ads and to gain other benefits.

So the question is: what is the important bit of an MMO? Is it the “massively multiplayer” bit? The “online” bit? Or is it the “worlds” bit? and what makes a “world” anyway?

Excelent.

Aguante Quilmes
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MMORPG are very addictive! I played Dark Age of Camelot (from Mythic Entertainment) for about 2 years straight in college, until I finally realized that it was effecting my health! Sitting in class all day and playing games games all night it BAD! You get captivated in an online world with other real people playing these characters that you create. You develop them to be the warriors they need to be to defeat the villains to obtain items.

It came to a point in DAOC where I was setting my schedule around the game so I could met up with my guildmates to go on 3-7 hour dungeons raids. Things you have to schedule ahead of time because you need tons of people to defeat bosses.

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i note you made no mention of the interview that blizz did about 3 months or so ago, after a bit of pressing let slip that over 80% (using there numbers) are addicts, that is they play for 3 or more hours a day, every day.

i play wow, i also raid.(high end stuff kara, BT, Gruul etc etc.)

My main toon has well over 100hrs played. (thats time ingame not real life time which means it would be way more.)

on top of him i have 2 other high lvl toons that i play, they would have 80+ hours on them as well.

My point is when you say wow was like crack, i can say its not like crack, i use it more like facebook or bebo, i spend the same time if not more standing around chatting to my friends than i do questing, raiding, etc etc.

LFM Kara Need healer PST

there is a game called TRAVIAN that has more active users than the bottom ones mentions on the list.

Just log in and look at the server stats on active users. Not fancy graphics, but broswer based game that any machine can play.

And what about Vzones - (link) - It’s been going for over 10 years, started by Fujitsu on Compuserve (as “worldsaway”) but now still going on it’s own.. It’s been a while now since i played, but I made lots of friends in there.

WoW is at the top in terms of monthly subscriptions but not in terms of registered users due to there being other games that charge for play time but not monthly fees.

Gaia is that fine, fine line between a game and a profile/chat room and I tell you the line is very fine. when it comes to whats an MMO and whats a game that can be played online should there be many others on this list like the person wondering about Diablo 2 or is this list for MMOs thats for the internet only, no single player?

ARE MMO’s THE NEW DESIGNER DRUG?

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Guild Wars is not NOT supscription based. You buy the game/s make an account and its free from there.

Sloppy article with some wrong references and some unverifiable claims. Also remarks like “games like WoW that are more akin to crack cocaine than mere entertainment” do not contribute to the author’s credentials without an explanation that supports such a claim.

1. MMORPGs. Some of those listed are not. To qualify something has to be massively multiplayer, and a role-playing game. SL isn’t really a game so much as a place to make games, some of the others arn’t games at all, and while GW is certinly a role-playing game its questionable how massive its multiplayer is due to the very heavy use of instancing.

2. The old MUCKs and MUDs are still going! Oh, they struggle to attract new players these days - people are too ruined by fancy graphics to spend enough time in a text-based environment to start enjoying it. But the users they have are extremally loyal, and I find it very rewarding.

This is a disappointingly shallow post from a normally reputable group.

500k active users to Second Life? Are you nuts? We got a 1.8 million active users base. Where u got this numbers? Google?

Um, no, from Linden Lab’s latest stats, for May. Under the Active Users tab. 507,844.

Wendi & Wagner, it seems that it’s not clear what “active users” means on that tab of the official statistics report. I’m assuming that the figure of “500k active users” is the number of different users that log in to Second Life every day for more than an hour. As not everybody logs in to SL every day (or any other platform in fact), the number of “active users” is usually taken to mean who logged in on the past 60 days for more than an hour — which would be 1.8 million users out of a database with 7.7 million ‘active’ accounts (in the sense that this database still has users that might not logged in for over a couple of years, but these were not deleted ever, since the user might return at some point in the future; in fact, just like on eBay, PayPal, YouTube, MySpace, or any other social website where not everybody logs in every day to make a purchase/send money/watch a video/upload a picture).

First of all I would seperate “Pay to Play” and “Free to Play” MMOs to their own list.

Even if “Free to play” MMO gets high numbers, theres no telling how many “users” is under 1 person.
Habbo Hotel has 7.5 million active users but nobody barely knows it. But almoust everyone knows WoW.

Off topic: Im from Finland.

This list is wrong. Cause Lineage II released 2004 and have more than 14m subscribers. Top that.
NCsoft is still in the lead.

This chart isn’t of any value, sorry to say that.

No Neopets, Kartrider, Gunbound, Maplestory, Lineage, Dofus, Audition, Runescape, …

Subs are being mixed up with active users.

I would also never compare Habbo, Gaia and WoW in one list. They are totally different products.

what about Xivio.com? It’s been around since April of 06… 3D virtual world written for Flash plugin so it runs instantly from a browser. I don’t know the user numbers.

Puzzle Pirates is self-published. Ubisoft put out a limited run box product for the game but they’re not the publisher - Three Rings is.

I think RUNESCAPE Rulez Espisily when you are a member like me or a high combat level.As i am one of around one millon members it is my duty to help lower level players espisily levels under 20 i can help alot cause i am a level 56!

Well that list is right for atleast wow.. but Guildwars has WAAAAAY more the 2.5mill subs i am a player of the game if you check there main website the game has over 4mill subs so that needs to be updated. As for runescape i seriosuly doubt its that many now… i used to play it an many quit due to the changes so i think that number is alot lower.

this only reflect in north america, if you go to the real world you will actually see MMOs hitting up to 50 million subscribers. As of now WoW only probably has 9 million subscribers worldwide.

Perfect World = 30 million and growing

These are only some MMOs that kills WoW. Fact is that if you go to Japan and say “do you play world of warcraft” they will most likely say no, but they have heard of it.

And also Guild Wars at 2 million??? youve got to be kidding me. And what do you mean that that there are only about 50-60 million players? You may find that much players in China alone. If you go to Korea, their entire youth culture socializes in the internet/MMOs basically.

WoW’s a joke to other MMOs, MU had 50 million subscribers alone in the Asian countries.

This list is SOOOO wrong,log into FFXI, and go to Jueno,or Aht Urhgan, you cant see the AH past the people playing…and for a game thats been out for years now, they keep adding features, zones, jobs, etc. and I KNOW theres ALOT of people playing this, my god theres like 22 different servers because of to many people, if you are going to post info, shouldnt it at least be somewhat accurate?

world of warcraft will be the best mmo till warhammer comes out.

I like warcraft.

But this one is my fav too:
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I’ve heard about quite some interesting activities in Europe, PC and mobile convergent MMOs. There are some pretty good concepts implemented within the next 6-9 month. How will the console player react to:
a) mobile activities
b) trend if MMOs will have their majority of users on PC?

MMOs seem to be taking over the online video game industry. It’s interesting to see how they rank and mind-boggling knowing how much cash they perpetuate every month.

dude runescape shold be number 1 because there is actully more players 5 millon active 9 million free accounts add that to gether and you got 14 millon players plus it has features such as f2p or p2p so it pwns all these other games

This list is way from being completed. You have forgot many importent games like Eve Online, Final Fantasy 11, Lord of the Rings Online, City of Heroes/City of Villains, Maple Story, Star wars galaxies…

I will just say bullshit (damo) u mean until Age Of Conan gets out;) warhammer looks just like a wow clone to me.

wtf is wrong with you man. world of qrcraft sucks like hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the only way people would make me play it is if money was involved. GOD GAYWAUDS. bitches

runescape is like so cool!!! play it and add me

how do safe sites like fredpenner.com work into this? using subscriptions to keep the ad/sponsors at bay isn’t easy.

why do people always say they would support this type of endeavour, but then don’t?

any advice on turning the tide towards a nice safe website where the parents can park the kids for awhile?

tx,

Brother will kill brother, Spilling blood across the land, Killing for religion, Something I dont understand

Fools like me, who cross the sea, And come to foreign lands, Ask the sheep, for their beliefs, Do you kill on gods command?

Well, this info is uncorrect. Maplestory is the most popular in the world with over 70 million in korea alone. plus it has about 5-10 million in the US…

this info is incorrect … runescape has 130 million accounts on 127.5million different people. i think the most played game.
i agree with kring age of conan is amazing

“over 70 million in korea alone”

Uh, dude, the entire population of South Korea is under 50 million. I’m really guessing Kim Jong-Il doesn’t let his people play Maple Story on their government-controlled Internet.

Runescape should be the most played multiplayer game.Runescape has 135million accounts created so that is alot of users it’s evenn more than warcraft or any other game runescape is played by heaps of people and i reckon i should be ranked firest to the best of my abilities that i know that one eighth of the world addicted to runescape and millions of schools and students in high school play it .