How Popular are Online Virtual Worlds?
Game Worlds • World of Warcraft – 8.5 million players worldwide • Runescape – 5 million players, inc. 1 million paying subscribers, over 200,000 concurrent users • Lineage – over 2 1/4 million active users • Entropia Universe – 500,000 registered participants • Star Wars Galaxies – estimated 110,000 to 175,000 subscribers 3D Virtual Worlds • Second Life – approx.