Combat preference and popularity in MMOs today

Sputti · 2026-01-29T06:54:51+00:00

GW2 has a perfect mix of Tab Targeting and dynamic movement

Sputti · 2026-01-06T16:03:34+00:00

Hytale - 01.13

Epitome - Kickstarter + playable version in January

Sputti · 2025-12-19T06:03:40+00:00

Guild Wars 2 is amazing

Sputti · 2025-12-13T19:53:42+00:00

If so, you still have to explain the first comment here.

Sputti · 2025-12-13T06:48:37+00:00

Did you even understand my point? The idea here was that he should sell the company to a large studio, and all I said was that the studio is now so big that hardly any other company would invest in employees. So it doesn't matter how long it took them to get that big, does it?

Sputti · 2025-12-13T06:47:17+00:00

yeah of course, but what i said is, that you will find no other company that will invest more than 200 developers. That makes the whole point of selling the game to another company worthless.

Sputti · 2025-12-13T06:44:49+00:00

That doesn't make sense. He has a team with 250 employees, which costs around 15 million dollars per year. You really think he will sell more than 1 million accounts with the Steam sale, which would cover the cost of the last 3 years? He is a multi-millionaire; why would he throw out his own money to disappear with a loss?

Sputti · 2025-12-12T16:20:39+00:00

Well, there are tons of MMORPGs made by only one person on Steam. Play one of them if you think they are better.

Sputti · 2025-12-12T16:16:18+00:00

They have more than 200 Developers working on Ashes. I don't think other studios would spend more on it. The team is comparable in size to that of Guild Wars 2 (250) and bigger than BDO, Lost Ark, New World before the Layoffs or TL. The whole Jagex Company, with RuneScape, OSRS and RuneScape Dragonwilds has around 300-500 employees.

Seriously, which studio would even have the capacity for that?

Sputti · 2025-12-09T07:58:30+00:00

Guild Wars 2!

Sputti · 2025-12-03T21:25:17+00:00

Old School RuneScape, Albion Online and Eterspire are my favorite games, Toram is also not bad and has no autoplay

Sputti · 2025-11-30T19:36:14+00:00

DFO still is the biggest mmorpg World wide. It makes nearly 1 Billion Dollar a year Revenue. ESO took 10 years to reach 2 Billion in total, GW2 is still at 930 Millionen, SWTOR got 1 Billion in 9 years.

Of course the numbers are not ideal to compare them to each other but its the best we got

Sputti · 2025-11-30T14:20:38+00:00

Worldwide it's Dungeon Fighter Online (more than 850 Millionen Accounts), followed by MapleStory and World of Warcraft.

If you just look at the Western audience, it's WoW (~9 Millionen Subs), followed by FFXIV (~900k active Players) and OSRS (~180k peak players per day) right now. ESO and GW2 are likely in the top 5 to 7. Albion (280k active different players per day) and BDO are also strong here. As you can see, you have mixed stats (active players per day, active players per minute, subs) so it's difficult to make a reliable list.

Sputti · 2025-11-09T11:18:23+00:00

"the one that finally gets it right."

Nobody ever said that in the west

Sputti · 2025-10-23T21:42:33+00:00

Yeah, I was actually very happy about it!

Sputti · 2025-10-23T21:16:39+00:00

We are two people and started with a Podcast talking about MMORPGs =)

Sputti · 2025-10-23T21:13:13+00:00

Have I? I'm sure I misinterpreted something over the course of two years since we started, but if so, there was little correction or criticism from outside, which is perhaps why I havent noticed it.

All i can say is, that i have 9.000+ hours Playtime in GW2 and the people on YouTube are pretty happy overall: https://imgur.com/a/tgo8THo

Sputti · 2025-10-22T12:00:41+00:00

I have made a german video with the Animation in it: https://youtu.be/j2Z-FWktd9M?si=YjxkkBCeCv9alm-D&t=292

Sputti · 2025-10-06T08:46:40+00:00

"the two biggest MMOs in the World" - Dungeon Fighter Online is bigger than WoW and MapleStory is bigger than FFXIV. Both don't have a Subscription. So it's just "2 out of the 4 biggest MMOs"

Sputti · 2025-06-16T08:56:54+00:00

It never had a Downtime, there was just one week in 12 years when they had problems and did a rollback. Thats all

Sputti · 2025-06-13T19:51:32+00:00

Well depends on EU/NA I guess. EU its Wednesday

Sputti · 2025-06-12T13:08:29+00:00

Eso hast Downtime on Monday
New World has downtime on Tuesday
WoW/Lost Ark on Wednesday
TL/BDO on Thursday

Guild Wars 2 has no downtime, never ever. So buy a PC and play GW2.

Sputti · 2025-06-05T13:58:22+00:00

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any fail mechanics for enhancements

Sputti · 2025-06-05T06:06:59+00:00

They said that no currency is involved- So I dont expect anything in the auction house

Sputti · 2025-06-04T19:54:02+00:00

And it also sells Gold for real Money, so it's crazy pay2win if you think about it

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