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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Possible way to inflate the numbers by Whyte+Panther · 2005-09-29 15:17 · Score: 2, Interesting

Hmm, if anyone can have as many free registrations as they want, then they can allow only one character per account, and let all the alts drive their numbers up more. I haven't investigated this game to see if that is actually happening, but it does seem to be a possibility.