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27755: Re: [MUD-Dev] When will new MMORPGs that are coming out get originalwith gameplay?

From: "Daniel Anderson" <melinko@insight.rr.com>
> David Kennerly wrote:

>> The Kingdom of the Winds (1996) predates Lineage, which is set in
>> ancient Korea.  Last I heard, The Kingdom of the Winds is still
>> the second most popular in Korea, with peaks around 100,000
>> concurrent players.  This arguably makes it the third largest
>> MMORPG in the world: Lineage, EverQuest, then The Kingdom of the
>> Winds.

> I thought the order of most popular went Lineage, EverQuest, and
> then Ultima Online, not The Kingdom of Winds? (I suspect SWG will
> also carve its spot in there too)

> Doesn't UO have over 200,000 subscribers?

> I could be totally off though :)

Asian games are harder to compare, because of the different business
model most operate on.  UO, to put it on the same scale, has
probably never much exceeded 50,000 players online at the same time.
Actually, these days, EQ might be the only US game in the "real" top
5.

--Dave
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