Ankama Games has announced that their manga style tactical MMO, DOFUS now has 10 million players.

Roubaix, France - 7 October 2008 - DOFUS, the leading massively multiplayer online game in France now counts 10 million players, including 1.5 million subscribers, throughout the world.

DOFUS, the 1st massively multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) in Flash, created by the ANKAMA Group, has gathered 10 million players, including 1.5 million subscribers since its release. Its principal appeal lies in its manga-inspired graphics and gripping tactical gameplay which have seduced players of all ages and backgrounds.

Ever since its release in September 2004, the number of players has steadily increased both in France and around the world: 30% of the players are non French-speakers. Today DOFUS is played in 150 countries and will soon be available in 10 different languages.

The English-language international version, launched in 2005, has attracted thousands of players from Spain, the UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil and the US. As DOFUS had such great success, German and Spanish versions of the game were released in 2007. Italian, Dutch and Portuguese versions of the game are now also available… and there are more to come!

ANKAMA is also developing a new online game Wakfu, which is the sequel to the DOFUS saga and takes place 1,000 years later. Wakfu is currently in Beta test and both the player communities and the gaming press are looking forward to its release!

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Ladies and gentlemen, the wow killer!

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Originally posted by nightbird305
Ladies and gentlemen, the wow killer!

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More like "the game people play when they are broke, or can't get legitimate access to any other game" which puts it in the same category of games like Runescape and MapleStory. Also, the 10 million number is in all likelihood just the number of accounts made, which we all know means absolutely nothing.

If you believe that nonsense about the number of players they have, I have a bridge that is just a perfect buy for you in Brooklyn.

These f2p games list everyone that ever thought of signing up.  Who knows the actual count of actual players, you certainly won't get that from them.  Surprising they have so many subscriptions though, certainly is one of the top games around if that is true.

So if the game is free-to-play you can readily discount any subscription numbers, it is entirely unrealistic.

What's doing Blizzard anyway? Bragging about their million players/accounts too. They can't brag about innovations (cuz the only "innovation" they are having right now is implementing PvP or Deeds or customization blatantly stolen from Warhammer and LOTRO, after originally stealing from EQ) or stealing (they use the word "polishing") so the only option left to them to look good and overhype themselves is saying they have millions of players/accounts.

Dofus is bragging too about figures? GOOD for them.

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

What's doing Blizzard anyway? Bragging about their million players/accounts too. They can't brag about innovations (cuz the only "innovation" they are having right now is implementing PvP or Deeds or customization blatantly stolen from Warhammer and LOTRO, after originally stealing from EQ) or stealing (they use the word "polishing") so the only option left to them to look good and overhype themselves is saying they have millions of players/accounts.

Dofus is bragging too about figures? GOOD for them.
 

except blizzard has the game to back up the figures... dofus is a pile of --

Mypreciouss.....relevant how?

Seriously, that comment exists for all of eternity now, and people of the future will look back at this as the end of the age of reason.

The best way to "win" an argument is to subtitute the predicates with a set of your own choosing, often not related to the 1st set of predicates.

wtf is happening to peoples critical faculties these days?

anyhooo......yer.....10 mill a/c's CREATED != 10 mill players/payers, just ask  Archlord.

However ,, blizzard uniquely have 10 million paying people.  They have an inordinatley high number of accounts created, but generally do not use this as a metric.

Good luck to DOFUS though.

    Ive never even heard of Ankama games and barely heard of Dofus.......

I just could never get myself to play a game called 'Dofus'

Originally posted by MyPreciousss

What's doing Blizzard anyway? Bragging about their million players/accounts too. They can't brag about innovations (cuz the only "innovation" they are having right now is implementing PvP or Deeds or customization blatantly stolen from Warhammer and LOTRO, after originally stealing from EQ) or stealing (they use the word "polishing") so the only option left to them to look good and overhype themselves is saying they have millions of players/accounts.

Dofus is bragging too about figures? GOOD for them.

just to fix any confusion.

10 million accounts created and 1.5 million active subscribers.

so no this is not the wow killer.

i am sorry to say that the only thing that can ever kill wow is another game made by blizzard.

Originally posted by sonicwhip

just to fix any confusion.

10 million accounts created and 1.5 million active subscribers.

so no this is not the wow killer.

i am sorry to say that the only thing that can ever kill wow is another game made by blizzard.

The sad thing is that it isn't even ACTIVE subscribers. It just says "including 1.5 million subscribers since its release." In other words, 1.5 million people have signed up for an account at some point, but there's no telling how long they stayed.

Not that these numbers are bad, mind you, but you don't really see companies brag about how many people have subscribed since launch, because it's the same thing as bragging about how many people have gotten accounts... it's just a number over time and doesn't mean anything about what the game is like today.

Well if im not mistaken every company counts "created accounts" to these numbers, including Blizzard, not who currently have active subscriptions or who are actively playing.

Originally posted by Hirmu

Well if im not mistaken every company counts "created accounts" to these numbers, including Blizzard, not who currently have active subscriptions or who are actively playing.

Completely not true, the subscription games only count active subscribers. 

Originally posted by sonicwhip
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i am sorry to say that the only thing that can ever kill wow is another game made by blizzard.

i'm sorry also but the only thing that could ever kill wow would be rising intelligence of its subscribers

I'm not surprised about this number. In Holland alone 40k people are playing. And that server is just open for a few months. In France it's way bigger, as it is in English speaking areas.

 People like this game...? I'm suprised, really.

Once you are up and running, it's quite an okay game. If you are a little bit older you might have to look pass the cartoony style. It has a lot of quests and pvp stuff that make it even fun for the older ppl.

Originally posted by Minikillers

Once you are up and running, it's quite an okay game. If you are a little bit older you might have to look pass the cartoony style. It has a lot of quests and pvp stuff that make it even fun for the older ppl.

I never knew about the game till i saw this post lol XD

Lies the all mighty always correct Xfire shows Dofus on 68 place aka they should have less then 30K of people playing it.

Xfire dofus