hgamer.blogspot.com - 5/28/2009
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Free Realms, fresh off their first million players announcement, has announced that they've reached the 2 million mark . Today Sony announced that over 2 million unique users have registered to their new free2play MMORPG Free Realms. Of those users, 75% are under the age of 17, 46% under 13 and ...
westkarana.com - 5/28/2009
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westkarana.com —
No, I don’t (to answer people on Twitter)
actually know anything about EverQuest III. I don’t even...
know if it exists. And in this NDA-loving age, if I knew anything, I couldn’t write about it. Isn’t it grand that the only ...
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Will EverQuest III be Free Realms II?
tobolds.blogspot.com - 5/26/2009
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tobolds.blogspot.com —
If you mentally zoom out and have a
look at the situation of the MMORPG market (which...
isn't easy to do, because most of us are too close to some game or other), you will notice that we live in interesting times. While World of Warcraft is still ...
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Why the hate? - An answer
examiner.com - 5/27/2009
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examiner.com —
The one million subscriber party, imagine it doubledHey
remember that time Free Realms hit 1 million users...
in about 17 days? Well double that about two weeks later. The free-to-play title now has 2 million registered users.A few demograph...
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Free Realms now with 2 million users
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Concerning Millions...
Van Hemlock —
... Unrelated observation; Heartless_ is spot on about People. Theres ten servers, and when passing through Sanctuary, what I assume to be the busiest spot in the game, there can be as many as 10-15 people there at a time. I do wonder where the other 1,999,985 players are. Mind you, there is a lot of instancing going on in there. I've no idea what the grouping is like as I've been doing my best to stay the hell away from Everyone Else in case I accidentally end up on a List for being Inappropriately Polite to Minors while Online. I suspect if you really want to do the grouping thing ...
Of marketing, villains, and value
Of Teeth and Claws —
... less than a month after their launch date. While there is no denying that this is an impressive feat, it says nothing about their player retention rate or the number of actively paying subscribers. Personally I played obsessively for a few weeks before scaling my game time way back, and now I haven't logged in since early last week. ...
Daily Blogroll 5/28 — No funny name episode
West Karana —
... Heartless_ looks at Free Realm’s press release bragging of two million players, and wonders why he never sees any of them in the game itself? Well, he sees them — running to the next minigame, but nobody is talking. I dunno, sometimes people talk to me and I just don’t see it because the chat window is always turning invisible. Then I look over the chat and see that at some point in the past, someone said something to me. Seriously. Chat in FR is broken and was broken in beta. ...
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examiner.com 6/29/2009 — This article was first published at MMORPG.com by Pamela Blalock. That's who I am so this is all neat and tidy.With 14 jobs currently in the game and many more on the way, there's a lot to do in Free Realms. All jobs have 20 levels (the two kar...
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westkarana.com 4/23/2009 —
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