primadog Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 EDIT: thanks for pointing it out :) RS is 5th after WOW, Lineage 1 & 2, and FFXI. http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/19/mmo-s ... whats-hot/ An interesting article that tracks the subscription rate of most popular MMORPGS. Based on those data, Runescape's currently 4th and climbing. The graph above shows the largest MMOs, those with over 120,000 subscribers. The green line leaping towards infinity is World of Warcraft -- the yellow and red curves, declining slowly, are Lineage and Lineage II respectively. Many of the others stop in 2005, so it's hard to get an accurate up-to-date picture, but the light blue line representing Runescape seems to be finally taking off, cresting the 500,000 barrier -- an impressive feat for a game started by a couple of students. Note: these charts originates from here: http://mmogchart.com/ On the side note, the article only counts subscriber rates, which is not quite fair since games like EQ2 and WOW don't have a free side to it. If we count the free numbers of players, Runescape is definitely bigger than FFXI and comparable to Lineage 1 & 2, and just shy of WoW. All I learned in life, I learned on Tip.it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rangerskull Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 So, no, it's not the biggest. Pretty good stats though. I'd like to see you solo all three dag kings at once.Easily done with just 2 people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Gordamio Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Hehe thats good to hear Congratulations jagex staff :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primadog Posted May 9, 2006 Author Share Posted May 9, 2006 So, no, it's not the biggest. Pretty good stats though. The article only counts subscriber rates, which is not quite fair since games like EQ2 and WOW don't have a free side to it. If we count the free numbers of players, Runescape is definitely bigger than EQ2 and comparable to WOW. All I learned in life, I learned on Tip.it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caughtjoo Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 I think they are 5th, but soon to be 4th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idarodo Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Think if they would count f2p too.. But anyways, good job Jagex! 6,521th to 99 woodcutting | Fletching 98/99 | Idarodo | Combat 90 | Total 1565+ | 38m+ total exp Retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bauke Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 So, no, it's not the biggest. Pretty good stats though. The article only counts subscriber rates, which is not quite fair since games like EQ2 and WOW don't have a free side to it. If we count the free numbers of players, Runescape is definitely bigger than EQ2 and comparable to WOW. True, but WoW is quite expensive compared to RS (if I'm not mistaking) And if WoW would have a free side they would have loads and loads of players and RS wouldn't even be near the player count of WoW. Twitter ||| Google+ ||| Facebook ||| LinkedIn ||| My very interesting weblog about science Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umega Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 Just goes to show that a game with amazing graphics etc, doesn't mean it's a great game. RuneScape's gameplay is addictive, that's why it's one of the best MMORPGs out there. Plus, other people that don't have high end computers (like me, coz I played WoW and Guild wars and my comp was rubbish at playing them :oops: ) play RS instead. No longer playing Runescape, I caught the WoW bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonne69 Posted May 9, 2006 Share Posted May 9, 2006 That stuff just not right...Runescape is small Mmorpg...compared to others... like WoW, Ultima Online, EQ, Etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend_Gaara Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 It's good to hear, unfortunatley they don't count the F2P. As many have said, a lot of F2P out there. Nice RuneScape! I hated WoW, looked dumb o.0 Legendary F2P Skiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lode Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 The amount of WoW players is just ----- HUGE! 4.5 million subscribers! that's almost half of Belgium, and the curve is still going steeply up! The amount of simultaneous RS players is usually between 30k-100k, that shows that there are MUCH more than 500k active players in RS, it could be more than in WoW Runescape: Lodev (Combat level been fixed at 101 for years now, Total level 1500+, playing since march 2002)Arenascape: Lode (Level 240+ Warlock) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moron8275 Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Runescape's #s would be much higher if you included f2p accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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