Our friend and funder, SirBruce used to keep up with all of the player populations in the MMO space. Sometimes it's tough to wrangle the "active subscribers paying you money" from the "registerd on a web page once and might have even loggeed in at least once" camps. Looks like MMOGData has sprung up to fill the void. I've never had a lot of faith in these things though ours was always pretty right on. Probably because SirB was a partner in this crime. Nevertheless, when Raph tells you that MySpace is a bigger MMO than WoW, you'll know where to check the facts... Actually, I'd trust Raph over a pie chart but hey, what the hell do I know anyway.
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Interesting, thanks for the pointer. I always liked checking out SirBruce's site and was saddened when it stopped being updated frequently.
I note that the BE:WW2O data hasn't continued, I'm guessing you won't be releasing anything to them?
Actually if you check his excel file, it has an update wwiionline number of 4000 something. I wonder where he gets that number...
Ah, I hadn't thought to check there.
The new guy's number for us are so ludicrously incorrect that I reject all of his numbers entirely.
FWIW, I also don't believe his "Active Subs" number for WoW either. I believe 8.5 million have created accounts, sure. But I doubt that many are currently active. Although it is anecdotal, none of the people I know who used to play WoW are playing it any longer.
Also, several million of those WoW players pay about 5 cents an hour. Last I heard there were roughly 2.5 million North American and European players paying the full rate.
I guess the WoW number are similar to WWIIOL in that there are people who don't play, but are still paying.
Like 90% of the OT crowd :)
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