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Online Chinese Game BNB Records 700,000 Users

Posted by Zonk on from the that-is-a-lot-of-players dept.

Thanks to simon for the heads up that casual online game BNB has a record of 700,000 concurrent users. The Chinese game is a casual online experience where families pit themselves against other families. For comparison the game Eve Online regularly has 10,000 concurrent users.

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  1. Great Comparison by cephyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    For comparison the American game Eve Online regularly has 10,000 concurrent users.

    Wow, great comparison guys. What about Sims Online? Everquest perhaps? Hello?

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    1. Re:Great Comparison by Moo+Moo+Cow+of+Death · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think they're talking about single server (or single "universe") games. Everquest and DAOC and all them only host about 3,000 people on each server or "universe".

      Most likely though, this game is not a concurant world, it's probably instanced it most cases, where the play areas are split off from the rest of the world much like Gunbound where there's basically different chat channels that you can join games in (which, once in game, you no longer exist on the server).

      As a minor side note, Eve Online is the only US based game that runs a single server, single universe game (largest online population) which is probably why they picked that one (there's many lesser known korean games, japan, etc).

    2. Re:Great Comparison by chrisd · · Score: 2, Insightful
      Isn't eve based in iceland? Not that it matters, the internet being all globalish.

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  2. Fair comparison? by Godeke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not pick something more akin to the product in question... like Yahoo games or something. Eve On-line is a niche player in a niche of gaming. BNB is a casual game targeting families.

    Nevertheless, the numbers indicate there is a very healthy group of technologically enabled families in China. I'm just curious what a more comparable service in the states would have on it.

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  3. In other news.. by Dustin_00 · · Score: 2, Funny

    China has 700,000 computers.

    1. Re:In other news.. by Apparently+someone · · Score: 2, Informative

      Try 35.50 Million.

      http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_cinusev2. ht m

  4. Played the game... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's popular among Korean kids also. It's basically an online Bomberman (Nexon bought the rights to Bomberman from Hudsonsoft AFAIK) that tracks your win/lose stats and rewards you with the game's currency for good play. You can use the currency to buy different accessories/clothes for your character. The Korean client is a free download (http://www.crazyarcade.com/) and there's no monthly charge (though you can pay real money in exchange for the game's currency). The client does have some sort of spyware attached to it (at least that's what Ad Aware says) and you have to be able to read Korean.

  5. Tomorrow's Shanda Market Release by Apparently+someone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hypothetical:

    "Shanda stock (Nasdaq: SNDA, news) climbs 50% as BNB reaches 1.4M concurrent users" ...after being /.'ed to see what all the buzz was about.

  6. Worst Comparison EVER! by Goosey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using Eve online for a numbers comparison is practically a crime. Eve online's numbers are VERY low for the average MMO, and as pointed out in another reply Eve is a niche game while this is apparently targeted at casual gamers. How about comparing it to Everquest? Or better yet (since it is casual gamers targeted) Yahoo games?

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