In 2005 it boasted peak concurrent user numbers close to 600,000. Like FFXIV, the relaunch went well and the game became one of China's most successful MMOs. In a manner eerily pre-reminiscent of FFXIV's troubles, it seems that the game had such a problematic launch it had to stop and start over, which is where the 'II' in New Westward Journey Online II comes from. For a start, this is no new entrant to the MMO scene. Then I came to my senses and decided I'd just have a quick google to satisfy my curiosity.Ĭonsidering this is such a commercially successful game, it has what I would consider to be a very short Wikipedia entry but it's packed with surprising details. For reasons unknown, New Westward Journey Online II jumped up to #4 this month, having not previously troubled the charts in 2017.įor one moderately crazed moment I entertained the fantasy that I might try to download NWJO2 and give it a run. The new chart of 'top grossing titles' includes a name that's new to me, although it shouldn't be because, as Wilhelm points out, it has appeared before, albeit not for a while. It's a good sample but I imagine there are several times as many I've never tried. It's been a year or two since I last took a tally of all the MMOs I've dabbled with over the past decade and a half but I'm sure the count is past a hundred and fifty by now. I've long been aware that there are far more MMORPGs in the world than we ever hear about, far less get to play, but this is evidence that there are still some really big ones out there, waiting to be discovered. What occasionally catches my attention are the names of MMOs I've never heard of, yet which are apparently doing well enough to make these Top Ten of Everything lists. I find their charts mildly intriguing, although not really for the statistical tidbits they include as bait for anyone that might have a few thousand dollars to spend on the full report. SuperData released one of their regular, gnomic infodumps today and Wilhelm had something to say about it, as he usually does.

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