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What are the 5 most populated F2P MMORPGs?
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Title says it all. Just looking for the more populated F2P MMO's!
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There was a report that Runes of Magic had 4 million active accounts. Don't know how valid that is now though. Although I'd still bet on it being up there, as far as being amongst the most popular.
Umm.. if I had to ball park it;
1. Runescape
2. Maple Story
3. Perfect World
4. Mabinogi
5. Something...
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Runescape
Maple Story
Tibia
Perfect world
D&D Online
Runes of magic is one of the best rated FTP MMO's but its player base is still small as its a newer game.
1.) D&D Online
2.) LOTR Online
3.) Mahbinogi
4.) Vindictus
5.) Uncharted Waters Online
I used the facebook fan pages as a benchmark I did not include browser games like runescape
Slap DOFUS in that last spot.
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I don't know.
i don't speak chinese. Find out what the top MMOs are in China and you have your list.
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Allods and Dungeon Fighter Online are pretty chill with a decent playerbase.
Originally posted by GTwander:
How are you an MMO? Or any of us for that matter?
I say we strike all users from the site for not being MMOs.
Runes of Magic should fit in there somewhere as its got a fairly healthy population still for a F2P game. I still think LOTRO and DDO beat them out as far as content quality & population goes.
What about Second Life is that considered. I read it has a huge economy people making money in real life off it too.
The player base is only in the hundreds of thousands. Which, is relatively small for F2P games.
People make real money off it, but don't expect to make anything if you don't have a considerable real life investment equal to that of starting a real life business. (Tens of Thousands of Dollars USD)
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Dofus is not free to play. It's more of an unlimited trial with VERY limited content. If you want to get past level 10 (you can level to 200), you are practically forced to pay the monthly fee.
Runescape
Maple Story
Lord of the Rings Online
DDO
Runes of Magic
...is my guess in no particular order.
I dont' know. The population on xfire for ddo, atlantica online, and silkroad is quite high.
Problem is there is no actual way of knowing.
Some games will say "We have millions of active accounts" of course you do it is F2P so any account made is basically always active.
XFire (which does not constitute any sort of factual information as far as the exact order of population goes) shows the following for MMOs so pick out the F2P:
WoW
Aion
LotRO
Eve
Silkroad Online
Guild Wars
CABAL Online
Runes of MAgic
Atlantica Online
Maple Story
Need for Speed World
Metin 2
Mabinogi
AoC
Battle of the Immortals
Perfect World
DDO
Fiesta
Warhammer
Shaiya
Air Rivals
RuneScape
So since I've never heard of some of those games and don't care to take the time to research them it looks like it might go something like this (since you also specified the RPG part and not just MMOs):
LotRO
GW
Runes of Magic
Atlantica Online
Maple Story
DDO
Runescape
War
Some selection of those is probably the top 5 since there are tons of people who don't use XFire. In this case XFire helps since you are looking for populated (and I read that as lots of people in the gameworld when you log in not accounts created) and this goes by hours played by people who use xfire.
1.Runescape
2.Second life
3.Maplestory
4.Perfect World
5.Mabinogi
wow... never knew that wow isnt in the top 5, well of course on xfire, but never thought that people's views would not include it.
Wow isn't free.
I'm pretty sure Allods has almost no-one playing it; unless the American servers are literally full to the brim. But on the EU servers at least I can't imagine there being more than 3000 active players/
RIFT was a *crushing* disappointment; a shallow, loveless, generic MMO the likes of which hasn't been seen in a P2P format since, well, forever.
Eagerly awaiting: World of Darkness, ArcheAge.
lol Tibia is awesome, not ever given a fair chance ;P
GW isn't F2P, its buy to play; there is a huge difference. Also, I don't think the xFire stats would be representative of the GW player-base at all. xFire used to have severe issues with the DirectX interpolation with GW a while back so a lot of GW players I knew never adopted xFire.