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I am currently seeking a vendor invite to attend this year’s E3 Media & Business Summit as a media/analyst. I did not attend last year and a lot of people missed my annual E3 MMOG reports, so if I am to do one this year one of you PR people out there need to get […]

Today and tomorrow I will be attending the 2008 Indie MMO Game Developers Conference 2.0 in Minneapolis, MN. If you’re here as well feel free to chat me up during the conference or at the party.

I’m going to be giving a presentation at the 2008 ION Game Conference in Seattle, WA, May 13-15. The hour-long lecture, An Analysis of MMOG Subscription Growth, will essentially be a historical overview of my subscription tracking to date, updated with the latest data, as well as some projections for the future. If you’re going […]

The NPD Group has announced today that they’re going to start selling quarterly reports tracking “market size and title shares for paid online subscriptions to video games and MMO/PC games, gaming Web sites, and video game console services.”
Well it’s about time. NPD is currently the industry go-to source for monthly retail sales figures, but they […]

By now you’ve probably seen the announcement last week by Blizzard that World of Warcraft had passed 10 million active subscribers worldwide: 2.5+ million in North America, 2+ million in Europe, and approximately 5.5 million in Asia.  WoW’s growth has been remarkable, but a look inside the data shows why this announcement was a bit of a […]

Once again, Final Fantasy XI has released a census of its online population.

Once again, Final Fantasy XI has released a census of its online population.

So, many of you may have read some news stories about Vivendi planning to make all Blizzard franchises, or at the very least Starcraft and Diablo in addition to their Warcraft franchise, into MMOGs.  This was allegedly announced at a public presentation to various Wall Street types.  I was not actually at the presentation, but […]

The site is now getting more and more attention internationally.  My data was featured in the March 2, 2006 edition of Dagens Næringsliv, a Norwegian newspaper, in an article about Funcom.  In addition, I’ve received a copy of Mondi Virtuali: Benvenuti nel futuro dell’Umanità (Virtual Worlds: Welcome to the Future of Humanity), a wonderful Italian […]

This is a little late, but the May 20, 2006 issue of New Scientist magazine contained an article on MMOGs that reproduced a portion of one of my charts.

MMOG guru Raph Koster has posted an excellent write-up on his blog on how to measure MMOs.  I wanted to provide a link to here because it provides a very comprehensive overview of both the advantages and shortcomings of using subscription numbers to track the market.  Not only are these numbers imperfect, but they also […]

I’ve been slashdotted again.  Also, I’ve made a slight revision to my Analysis and Conclusions section, correcting some typos and adding a clarification regarding Blizzard’s customer definition.

The Boston Globe has an interesting article online about Turbine’s two upcoming MMOGs.  The reason I want to comment on it here is that I spoke with the Boston Globe reporter about my research and my resources and methods before the article was posted, yet he did not ask me specifically about what he was […]

Well, Mmogchart.com is getting mentioned all over the Internet lately!  First my E3 report got a mention on Slashdot, and then my site finally got mentioned on Boing Boing.  John Borland of CNET News.com also recently interviewed me for his interesting article “Can Mickey and Frodo revive virtual worlds?”

This is a couple of weeks late, but as they did last year, Final Fantasy XI released a census of its online population.  Unfortunately, the data provided doesn’t directly offer any new subscriber figure, but it does confirm “over 500,000 registered users” owning 1,550,000 characters.  Last year they reported 500,000 subscribers with 1,200,000 characters.  If […]