Chinese MMOG Boasts 9 Million Players

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 29, 2005 @10:24AM from the enjoy-this-statistic-with-some-nacl dept.

Next Generation is reporting that Chinese Massive title Yulgang has hit 9 Million subscribers, just two months after the game's launch. Joystiq has commentary, and clarifications: " First, Yulgang does not require a registration or a subscription fee - and as many of you have pointed out in regards to Guild War's recent milestone, without subscription fees that number can seem quite inflated from the actual number of players. In fact, the maximum number of people playing Yulgang at any one time has been only 215,000. Which is still a high number, but less than one-thirtieth of its registered database."

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How many computers in china? by dtfarmer · 2005-09-29 10:54 · Score: 3, Insightful

You know your MMOG is successful when you have more players subscribing than computers in the country....

I, kid.. actually they had 36 million in 2002 and that should have doubled by now according to estimates in that link. Of course the US had 190 million computers back then so it is still a high percentage of subscriptions compared to number of computers in the country....