{"id":1615,"date":"2005-12-21T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2005-12-21T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T16:22:00","slug":"mmorpg-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"mmorpg populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sabin\/265524.html\">post<\/a> by <lj user=sabin> got me thinking about the population of various virtual worlds.  Specifically, the number of players dabbling in them.  It&#8217;s 5 million for WoW according to blizzard.  The estimates I could find for FFXI ranged from one at least a year old of 200,000, and an undated one saying 500,000-600,000.  I did find a more recent number that says more than 1.x million _characters_, but that&#8217;s hardly a useful statistic.  And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anyuzer.com\/archives\/180.php\">page<\/a> looking at that very question for several games, not including WoW, along with commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post by got me thinking about the population of various virtual worlds. Specifically, the number of players dabbling in them. It&#8217;s 5 million for WoW according to blizzard. The estimates I could find for FFXI ranged from one at least a year old of 200,000, and an undated one saying 500,000-600,000. I did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mmorpg populations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}