After gathering data from October 2007 to March 2008, the NDP Group has estimated that online gaming in the US is worth over $1 billion - a year. It comes as no surprise that the biggest part of the income was generated by Blizzard's blockbuster-game World of Warcraft.
The top 5 games in terms of monthly subscribers for the first quarter of 2008 looks like this:
In total, the NDP Group estimates that there is around 11 million subscribers to online-gaming in the US. These numbers also include people paying for online-games through websites though. Interestingly enough, most of the people that are signed up on gaming-websites like Pogo.com or Realarcade.com are females over 35 years of age. On the opposite side, most MMO-players are males younger than 35 years of age.
To read more, go to Gamesindustry.biz for the full story.
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RuneScape... ye sure.
<3 WIGAN LATICS
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of course, why not -.-'
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omg :f
Fighting Corruption for the greater good of the world!
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geek_nd
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... wtf US people...
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Runescape..
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wow ftw :)
play more!!
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Final Fantasy XI is one of the most expensives MMORPG of the world.
I'm not surprise about that 1 billion. It's Coke time!
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PainK |
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wooooo !!!
*PaiN* StriKe lyK LiGhtnin
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RuneScape is very funny... but I lost my motivation, if u dont pay but with paying money thats such a damn big world and I think very funny.
Summer Love
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oX
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lol honestly? :D
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What a shame, they are all MMORPG games.
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rofl runescape xD
Against All Odds~~
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imported_9mm |
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rs is an epic failure
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Woah!
That's 43billion PHP. Geesh, I'm just speechless. A world w/o walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?
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i spend 40E ewery month on MMORPGs,
guess i m not the only 1 :) Legendary....wait for it... daaaaary....
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