Of course WoW makes the graph a bit unreadable, but you can play with the tool for yourself , and let us know in the comments for any interesting findings! But the game is broken specially pvp is so bad.. But the game feels slow compared to BDO…eso long term specially if you like pvp could become very unhealthy…the frustration from not been able to use skills is bad! Bdo is such a fast paced combad just with W A S D you perform insane combos! The map is beautiful!
You actually grind to discover new land! Not like eso very casual. Hope in level go do end game content repeat… I wish all success for BDO!
ESO for me is just a beautiful and super chill experience now. I love its PvP too, but as you said, the issues keep getting fixed and keep coming back.. BDO is definitely more satisfying in terms of gameplay, no matter if you prefer combat or crafting, both can offer thousands of hours of enjoyment and never-ending progress!
BDO is known for its heavy desync issues even in 1v1 situations, let alone the large-scale Node Wars where hundreds of players fight along with siege equipment. Anything you execute gets executed instantly, and throughout its existence PvP performance ranged from Medium to Perfect, not Atrocious to Medium as with most cases.
The developers love their game, and the pacing that it gets updated is just sick. Whereas in BDO we can get the next surprise or game-changing mechanic in a regular weekly patch! Well, as people say, long leveling is good? No way. I want challenging content not boring. Better get to max level faster and start competitive pvp, raids etc. Where you actually need brains. Classic wows leveling wasnt hard, it was braindead grinding. When does grinding for a life time payoff?
The worst thing in games is when you level up and the NPC or enemies become harder being the same enemies! When does a rat take 5 -7 hits to kill at level as ? Or ? ALL games need npc amd emenie sleveling off to make them equally at specific points. There are no rats that get more powerful etc. Any power updates in BDO have been super careful throughout its history, always taking into account veterans and new players at the same time, managing to keep both happy.
HARD agree. Everything interesting in the game comes at the end, quests of kill x, gather y or z with a drop chance of 2 percent, and mobs only respawn once every 10 minutes is just NOT interesting game play, whatsoever. So many triggered fanboys are hating because they wish their games would be ahead of wow lol. Also I remember back in people would say WOW would die in couple of years…now Blizzard is still ahead by far haha.
WoW is ahead of any other MMORPG as far as population goes, and that will hardly change — unless the genre is finally revived by another game in the future. Earth Year: Humans are still killing the same pigs who drop weapons from their arses, over and over and over again, since Looking forward to Ashes of Creation, they are using Unreal Engine 4.
Wow had its time now warframe is taking things by storm dont get me wrong wow is good but it will be gone in the next few years when do and warframe take over pc and ps4 and Xbox. The devs do an excellent job of providing maybe the best F2P game on the market right now, but the facts heavily disagree with your statement. For starters, WoW is going nowhere. Other than that, this was well written and well researched, keep it up. I have added a correction to specify that the player counter on the OSRS site includes the mobile version, so thanks again for noticing!
But that is maximum, so numbers would be M. There are realms, and if you count subscribers per one with "megaserver" system, it sounds believable, unlike per realm with "megaservers" — that would be too much, since worlds ingame feels really empty these days.
Thanks so much for your time. WOW — no idea how ppl are not tired. It has great lore but it is not the great game it used to be. Black Desert is indeed packed with afk fishers, I am not even sure how it is a mmorpg when players never team up together. FF is quite populated from what I see and with such active community. Like someone mentioned too much contend which spreads the population too wide.
GW2 has healthy population for sure, but just like in WOW ppl are there more for the nostalgia. WoW — Well I feel tired with it too. Every expansion changes so many core systems.. BDO — Not so true. Not a bad tactic in my opinion. But the fishing population in BDO is quite small compared to the rest of the players. They are handling the game far better than WoW in my opinion. You need like hours to do that properly and start playing in the endgame. Did I do it? Is it a great challenge I want to do later on?
Well, they should!!! Yes why not! Your Numb are way off I play FF14 and it gets more and more WOW players every day, people are leaving wow and FF14 has way more than 1m players active they keep their stats in the open unlike wow. Thanks for your rant James. You are hilarious.. I was curious myself of how many people play wow and came across your article. Wow is an amazing game.. But back to you are hilarious.. I was reading the posts and reading what people reply, most people are so ignorant, and your replies to theirs are pretty fun.
It must drive you nuts. There are facts and educated guesses, to make reasonable assumptions to figures and then you have the people that speculate and bullshit for a lack of a better word … anyways good job on the article. Only OSRS publicly shows its active players in real-time, on their site. Really nice article. I wound up here after reading your review on BDO also very well written.
I applaud your responding to each commenter and I enjoyed more than a few chuckles at your often subdued and tactful replies to people who deserved worse. Any more thoughts on that? I play on a PS4 myself. I know that limits my options.
I have a good PC, but i work at a keyboard and mouse all day and prefer something a little different in the evening. I could move back to PC but it would take something pretty special to get me to do that.
As a gamer I loved Runescape 2. Lost interest when they released 3 and OSRS went a little too far back for me. Not quite RS classic, but not RS2 heyday either. I loved the combination of pve, pvp, questing, large world, diverse economy, and huge skillset. To be honest I loved skill grinding more than anything else.
Ive never found another mmorpg that has the variety of non-combat features. I feel like ive been in mmorpg limbo ever since and never really found another place to call home. Any thoughts? Hey Niap! I thought Black Desert was second. I hated it in the beginning but after my second try i fell in love with it. How is WOW keeping this player base? Well, WoW manages to keep their numbers so high for various reasons. But the list is not about which game is the best, but which one has the highest population.
I definitely respect Jagex for being out-front with their numbers, and I believe that everyone should follow their example. They have too many separate regions, and most of them run a different version of the game. On top of Black Desert Mobile, which will soon come to the West as well, their numbers should be higher than what I was able to estimate out of the sources posted.
So unnecessary lol. I think we all understood what he meant. We get it you guys are super smart…………………….. Google Trends works a bit different. Just leaving WoW and my buddys trying to drag me into Archeage, looks fun but as dead as could be lol.
Hey guys, did you know? As I said, he was overexagerating but your reaction was very off aswell. Thanks for adding your comment nevertheless Chibzie, I appreciate your honesty and manners. Are you on drugs? Why do you like wow so much? Tell me what the appeal is because ive tried to get into that game 7 times already…i still have it downloaded but i cant muster the motivation to play it…so honest question, whats the appeal?
What did i overlook? About WoW, I did start playing when it came out, in the Xmas of ! Of course back then, it was a totally different experience from any way you look at it. They are simply going to create a new set of systems with each expansion, then delete it when the next expansion comes around. WoW was never too hardcore, it was always a theme park MMO. It actually took me 7 times of trying BDO in order, to finally get it, and fall in love with it!
However, if I may give my two cents, Guild Wars 2 has one of the most loyal player bases. Is this confirmed? Neverwinter is definitely a succesfull MMO, but I think we would all know if it had even 1 million active accounts! Oldschool RuneScape is the most active, directly on website it shows current player count on all servers and it outnumbers every mmo on this lists daily active numbers.
OSRS should be at the top, but the jagged graphics that draw old schoolers in just seems to turn off a lot of mmo players who appreciate the coding in games. As far as content, osrs has it all, all NPC perform specific functions, all buildings are acessible, the only thing is the trash graphics. Which goes to show many players are more involved with how the game functions as opposed to how pretty it looks like Bdo Or ESO.
I really wish someone would make a game with mechanics and simplicity like OSRS but without the 8 but garbage graphics running on javascript. Runescape is bigger then all these games besides world of warcraft. Please update the list it is wrong. This is a number we would all love to have!
Props to Runescape for posting these numbers, but unfortunately they are almost the only ones! Runescape will definitely get a place on this list, when it rises up to 10 MMOs! I have heard that Wizard has 40 million accounts made. Not sure the validity of this, or how many are active. With this many accounts, I would assume the population is very large. I recommend you look into this game if youwant to expand the list later on.
Thanks for your feedback John! I dont plan on leaving a message about my opinion on games, I am here to ask a question. Does BDO offer an experience worth committing the next year of my life playing? The NA community specifically never understood that pearl abyss made NA be p2c. Real money can help you progress faster indeed, but the game itself proves that your brain can help you 10 times more than your wallet.
But heavy even light P2W games, will never make it as good games. There are no players that will invest for the long haul, the game is flat, and the store will definitely scare people away. Babalon, Mother of Abominations I wish I could believe what developers say, but time and time again they fall short of telling the truth. AOC is kick starter that is milking players for cash for the opportunity to re-hash an ancient genre that has been done to death.
I have to heavily disagree with you on Black Desert though. The only way you will get any real numbers is if the companies get together and build a data source for an MMO website to list them, other than that your all pissing in the wind with your mouths open.
By providing a wealth of engagement metrics not just reddit subs, but 10 more related numbers , I think that we can give a clear picture on both the volume of engagement in an MMO, as well as which platform is most popular with the players. Also, people are actually looking for the most popular mmorpg on , and the answer stands correct, even if by a few hundred thousands less or more.
Does it make a real difference if the population is K or 1. Yup, I just started WoW again. Pretty fun game. I always imagined a world where Rift and DDO would be in a type 5 like this…sigh…. Haha, I know the feeling! I think the judge BfA about a month in as being a failure would be like judging a movie as such a few minute after the intro credits finished rolling.
Blizz is great about learning from their mistakes. I bet by 8. PS: Great article. As a quick example, ESO has done a tremendous work with voice-overs and the overall storyline.
Every item has its place in the world, and its place in the production circle. The content is crap on ESO they have a very poor end game also they never could never retain that many people.
I play almost all these MMO still so I can say this pretty confidently. There is so much tons of content in this game, yet there are features which are not properly utilized, resulting in an end-game that feels the same with leveling your first character. However, I disagree on the population aspect. Selling stuff in the Auction House, that people actually buy, fast! It sounds great.
That feeling is usually what drives me to pick up a new game, if I had it at the end-game I would just keep going. The single-player experience is great, but the MMO aspect relies heavily on your personal group or guild. The only thing I can say for sure, is that there is a lot of grief for us MMO players, some bad experiences are shaping our perception for these games. The worst part, is that developers get more affected than needed from this fact, and deliver less thought-out and tested mechanics that might seem cool at first, but end up hurting their games more in the long run.
In order to offer my two cents, I believe Black Desert Online is following the best path right now, experimenting with unique mechanics and gameplay no one has even dared in an MMORPG, providing an extremely long-term investment, just like WoW managed to do all these years ago, and still does for a great number of players.
There are a lot of bots in WoW, but to state that it is anything less than the most-popular and most-played MMO at the moment is simply wrong. Thanks for the input Duncan, but that was intended. It means plus or minus 1 million, which well, is the same with roughly. Thanks for the article though, good read. Do you care to share a link then? Your email address will not be published. More Best Of Posts. Top 10 Most Anticipated Games Of Latest Content. Share of U. Statistics on the topic. Online gaming industry overview Gaming revenue worldwide , by device.
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