I stumbled upon Voig.com today while surfing the net and they have some very nice graphics showing many MMORPG stats such as subscription numbers, active players, genre along with a few others. So I thought it was interesting if I listed some of the stats here. All stats are up till Aug 2007.
Top 5 MMORPGs
World of Warcraft – 25% market share
Runescape – 16%
Second Life – 12%
Knight Online – 11%
GuildWars – 10%
Having recently played both LOTRO and EVE, I was surprised to see some low numbers. 290k for LOTRO and 175k for EVE as of August 07.
36 Million active MMORPG players combined
MMORPG Genres
71.5% Fantasy
15.5% Sci-fi
3.0% Social
1.5% FPS
8.5% Other
Business Model
47% Pay to Play
49% Free to Play
4% Other
i like it a lot. i did a synopsis myself on the data on my blog. i just find this data really cool to look at.
i use to visit mmogchart.com all the time. now that he feel off the planet it is nice to see someone take it over.
December 10th, 2007 at 10:14 pmQuote
The data on Voig.com is completely skewed.
February 14th, 2010 at 7:36 amFor example they count WoW active payed subscriptions and compare them with Second Life registered users, meaning anyone who ever registered …
If they would show registered users for WoW then WoW would also have many more subs.
Anyway, just come to my site http://www.mmodata.net, where I do a serious effort to show unbiased numbers.
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