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WoW No Longer World’s Biggest MMO?
- motoko 18y ago(WoW) paying subscribers vs (Habbo) free active user accounts Not even a contest: WoW wins. Also, according to the Habbo site: * 2262 Habbos online now! * 2,845,022 visits in the last 30 days How do these numbers translate to 9.5MM active accounts?
- teamonkey 18y agoRaph Koster did a presentation at GDC2007 that touched on this: http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007.shtml http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007.shtml The slides that struck me were this one: http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007/Slide61.JPG http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007/Slide61.JPG followed by this one: http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007/Slide62.JPG http://www.raphkoster.com/gaming/gdcprime2007/Slide62.JPG Note that even back then Habbo had more active monthly users than WoW. Of course Habbo and Runescape are free to play (at the basic level at least), but the costs of running them are so much smaller. Last I heard, Blizzard's WoW team numbered close to 1000 full-time staff. Jagex has a very small team that has only very recently started to expand.