The MONEY people SPEND on MMOs...

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/12/15/mmo-infographic/

WOW... and the majority are F2P Models so (apart from WoW), that's the new business plans they need to follow.

doesn't include korea and china? Shamefur dispray :P

TIL League of Legends was a MMO. Oh wait..

F2P is disgusting. Can't help it but I hate kids and brazilian hackers along with ridiculous grindfests. Even the people on Tribes Ascend were unbearably dumb and they wouldn't be capable of having fun even if their lives depended on it.

Imo mmos signal a pretty grim future for the people that actually play games and work to be good at them.

F2P is disgusting. Can't help it but I hate kids and brazilian hackers. Even the people on Tribes Ascend were unbearably dumb and they wouldn't be capable of having fun even if their lives depended on it.8-Bitterness

MMORPG is like a second job. All dat grinding gears and levels. Pretty sad, but Koreans sure love them grinding games.

And that's why every studio is trying to make a successful MMO, if you can pull it off - your studio is set.

Granted, there have been plenty lately that have invested a ton of money into an MMO to only have it fail months later.

MMORPG is like a second job. All dat grinding gears and levels. Pretty sad, but Koreans sure love them grinding games.

Mr_BillGates

F2P makes sense for the MMO model. It sucks, but that's what the market has shown it wants. I don't play many MMOs but the few I've played, I preferred the monthly subscription model.

I suppose that I do not understand the point of this. They take an entire GENRE and combine it to advertise how much money it made? Who knows what games were all included in this as well. Hell, let's take every single FPS ever created in the genre and see how much it made this year, guarantee it trumps those figures. Let's take the entirety of the sports genre, racing genre, anything.

This is a cool statistic just for the sake of knowing how much it's "worth", but in terms of proving anything else is just dumb. People taking this information and claiming MMO players spend a lot are being incredibly ignorant.

I suppose that I do not understand the point of this. They take an entire GENRE and combine it to advertise how much money it made? Who knows what games were all included in this as well. Hell, let's take every single FPS ever created in the genre and see how much it made this year, guarantee it trumps those figures. Let's take the entirety of the sports genre, racing genre, anything.

This is a cool statistic just for the sake of knowing how much it's "worth", but in terms of proving anything else is just dumb. People taking this information and claiming MMO players spend a lot are being incredibly ignorant.

trijity

$13 billion over 400 million players over dozens of countries isn't anything really significant.

[QUOTE="Mr_BillGates"]

MMORPG is like a second job. All dat grinding gears and levels. Pretty sad, but Koreans sure love them grinding games.

V4LENT1NE

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

$13 billion over 400 million players over dozens of countries isn't anything really significant.

Bird_Killer

In what way is it not significant?

In terms of rewvennu per player? That might matter to you, but it means jach $hit to the people in the industry. It's INVESTMENT vs return they care about, and it appears to be doing well in that regard.

[QUOTE="Bird_Killer"]

$13 billion over 400 million players over dozens of countries isn't anything really significant.

Kinthalis

In what way is it not significant?

In terms of rewvennu per player? That might matter to you, but it means jach $hit to the people in the industry. It's INVESTMENT vs return they care about, and it appears to be doing well in that regard.

This is nothing more than showing the obvious with numbers that you can't deduce/analyze further with and self-promotion of the site's service.

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"][QUOTE="Mr_BillGates"]

MMORPG is like a second job. All dat grinding gears and levels. Pretty sad, but Koreans sure love them grinding games.

Kinthalis

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

[QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"] Its funny reading comments like this. If someone comes home from work and plays games for 3 hours they are a hardcore gamer and praised for it, yet if someone comes home from work and plays WoW for a few hours each night it gets called a second job...grimdust

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

[QUOTE="grimdust"][QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

FelipeInside

Thing there I think is that normally even if you play matches on the same map on an FPS (take dust_2 on CSS for example) they will hardly come out the same every time, when grinding things often feel like a drag and like more of exactly the same over and over again, not to say it can't vary but when grinding properly you expect things not to vary so you can maximize efficiency. Of course if you play COD for hours on end only to level up that defeats the purpose and it turns into a boring grindfest.

People have already dropped well over $100 on SOE's Scamside 2.

[QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

[QUOTE="V4LENT1NE"] Its funny reading comments like this. If someone comes home from work and plays games for 3 hours they are a hardcore gamer and praised for it, yet if someone comes home from work and plays WoW for a few hours each night it gets called a second job...grimdust

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

Shamefur dispray :Pwis3boi

[QUOTE="grimdust"][QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

V4LENT1NE

wow, 54% of polish mmo gamers are under 30? Dear god, that's alot of old people filling up the mmo space.

I'd expect that sort of statistic to spread out all over the west in the next decade though.

Go old people, don't let arthrtis stop you from pushing the wasd keys damnit!!! :x Die with a joypad in your hand.

MMORPG is like a second job. All dat grinding gears and levels. Pretty sad, but Koreans sure love them grinding games.

Mr_BillGates

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]Shamefur dispray :Pillmatic87

[QUOTE="grimdust"][QUOTE="Kinthalis"]

EXACTLY. It's just pathetic balbberings from either jeoulous console gamers that don't have that many MMO's to play, or ignorant people who like to stereotype because thinking before they speak would be too much effort for them.

I know people who feel exactly the same way, even though they EASILY play more than your average MMO gamer, they just play Call fo Duty or Halo instead.

The irony doesn't seem to phase them one bit.

V4LENT1NE