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woges March 25th, 2009 02:17
MMORPG News - Dirty Sexy Money
 
RPS have an article on the top grossing MMOs when looking at entire player spending. It's all here.
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What’s interesting is that it isn’t ordered by subscriber/user numbers, but by player spending. It is, in hindsight, a sensible and obvious way to look at the market, but it changes what we thought we knew quite a bit. Games that we often consider to be dwindinling (e.g. Conan, City of Heroes, Everquest II…) are, when squinted at like this, actually doing pretty well by dint of their fairly highly monthly subscription fees. £9/$9 times a couple of hundred thousand is, after all, pretty good money, so long as the server and staffing costs don’t eat it it all. Here’s the run-down, pop-pickers:
1) World of Warcraft
2) Club Penguin
3) RuneScape
4) Eve Online
5) Final Fantasy XI
6) The Lord of the Rings Online
7) Dofus
8) Age of Conan
9) City of Heroes
10) EverQuest II
More information.

Zloth March 25th, 2009 02:17
It's FF11 that really surprised me!

Reyla March 25th, 2009 10:07
FF 11 is still huge in Japan. WTF is Club Penguin?

txa1265 March 25th, 2009 11:23
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Originally Posted by Reyla (Post 1060940411)
FF 11 is still huge in Japan. WTF is Club Penguin?
It is a wonderful kids' MMO where you have … um … penguins! My son had a year subscription after enjoying it for a while in free mode - which constantly tells you how much more fun you'd be having for $60 a year …

kalniel March 25th, 2009 14:19
No guild wars?

txa1265 March 26th, 2009 01:30
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Originally Posted by kalniel (Post 1060940441)
No guild wars?
Guild Wars doesn't have 'subscribers'

kalniel March 26th, 2009 11:56
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Originally Posted by txa1265 (Post 1060940571)
Guild Wars doesn't have 'subscribers'
I thought the point of the article was that it didn't look at subscribing, but instead player spending.

txa1265 March 26th, 2009 12:13
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Originally Posted by kalniel (Post 1060940608)
I thought the point of the article was that it didn't look at subscribing, but instead player spending.
Exactly … subscribing means providing a continuous cash flow … for Guild Wars, I just reinstall and hop on whenever I want - haven't paid a $ since initial retail.

kalniel March 26th, 2009 12:22
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Originally Posted by txa1265 (Post 1060940610)
Exactly … subscribing means providing a continuous cash flow … for Guild Wars, I just reinstall and hop on whenever I want - haven't paid a $ since initial retail.
But presumably you don't represent everyone who plays GW. GW's model includes microtransations as well as expansion purchases, so it's valid to question how it does compared to traditional subscription models.

txa1265 March 26th, 2009 12:58
But then wouldn't every game with for-charge DLC (such as one I played recently Burnout Paradise) also qualify? Subscriptions are pretty clear.

kalniel March 26th, 2009 17:39
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Originally Posted by txa1265 (Post 1060940614)
But then wouldn't every game with for-charge DLC (such as one I played recently Burnout Paradise) also qualify? Subscriptions are pretty clear.
If they classed themselves as MMORPGs then yes. BP doesn't class itself as that so I doubt that would be included.

txa1265 March 27th, 2009 03:33
KO, first remove all retail box sales … becuase it is *subscriptions* … how would GW rank? Like I said, nowhere - because that is the business model they specifically chose.

kalniel March 27th, 2009 11:17
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Originally Posted by txa1265 (Post 1060940780)
KO, first remove all retail box sales
? Why? They've included them for WoW I'm sure.


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