Originally posted by Pivotelite

I'd also like to add, you need to be a member to vote in that poll, they have over 340,000 votes already... so we know Runescape after 10 years still has well over 300,000 subscribers...that are active and willing to vote in a poll, they are definitely in the 500k-1mil range overall.

 

Second most successful MMO all-time next to WoW, that's for sure.

 

Yeah... if you ignore dozens of other games out there. Poor everquest 1, was such a huge game for a long time and a massive inspiration that shaped WoW into the game it was, yet it gets no credit at all. Heck, Ultima Online which helped establish many of the elements that everquest used and adapted into its game...

but sure, lets give credit purely to a game that gained mass numbers and a browser focused game which, did incredibly well mind you, but isn't at all as large as you push it to be, even when it was in its prime.

Originally posted by tablo

Originally posted by Pivotelite

Originally posted by Razeekster

Originally posted by Pivotelite

I'd also like to add, you need to be a member to vote in that poll, they have over 340,000 votes already... so we know Runescape after 10 years still has well over 300,000 subscribers...that are active and willing to vote in a poll, they are definitely in the 500k-1mil range overall.

 

Second most successful MMO all-time next to WoW, that's for sure.

 

If you're going by numbers there are other games out there that have a playerbase that large and larger too... 

  No, there's no other MMO on the market currently with 1 million subscribers other than WoW, Runescape has been over 2m at one point and has maintained 500k-2m for many years.

 

WoW is in a league of it's own though, but still Runescape is no doubt second most successful, between Runescape and Runescape classic theres currently 195,000 players online, I remember when it would get as high as 270,000 people online at one time. It's a very big MMO and has remained that way for many years.

Runescape is not that big. They never had 2million subs or anything close to that. That's what they report as the total accounts made. Look at the ladder and see how many accounts at the bottom never even had one level up.

wrong sir they reported awhile back 1 million subs with 7 million total players and If i recon last year or two years back close to two million .They reported all of this as a event of runescape.

Originally posted by Purutzil

Originally posted by Pivotelite

I'd also like to add, you need to be a member to vote in that poll, they have over 340,000 votes already... so we know Runescape after 10 years still has well over 300,000 subscribers...that are active and willing to vote in a poll, they are definitely in the 500k-1mil range overall.

 

Second most successful MMO all-time next to WoW, that's for sure.

 

Yeah... if you ignore dozens of other games out there. Poor everquest 1, was such a huge game for a long time and a massive inspiration that shaped WoW into the game it was, yet it gets no credit at all. Heck, Ultima Online which helped establish many of the elements that everquest used and adapted into its game...

but sure, lets give credit purely to a game that gained mass numbers and a browser focused game which, did incredibly well mind you, but isn't at all as large as you push it to be, even when it was in its prime.

WoW lead developers met each other while playing Everquest if i recall correctly.

LOL is not an MMO.

how accurate this is i dont know

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-3.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-4.png

Originally posted by Caldrin

LOL is not an MMO.

 

how accurate this is i dont know

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-1.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-2.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-3.png

http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-4.png

 

 

 

 

 

Well technically it could be called a MMO, Mass multi Online.

There a massive amount of player playing LoL

Its is a muiltiplayer game

and its online

So yes it does meet those criteria if u think about it. Certainly isnt what u would usualy call a MMO though.

So 2007 is old school? Making me feel old... I used to play this game right after it came out. 01 or 02 I guess. It was my first MMO. Making a browser game like that in 2001 is simply amazing.

Its is a muiltiplayer game

and its online"

If you went purely by that, you can call any multiplayer game with a mass amount of players an MMO. Aka COD, Halo, SC2, etc.