MMO statistics show WoW wins – WOW Insider
Posted Jun 1st 2006 9:59AM by Jennie Lees

We’ve pointed to MMOGChart before, but the site’s latest update is worth commenting on. With subscriber numbers for all major MMOs through to May 2006, there’s one game that stands head and shoulders above the rest — no prizes for guessing which.

In fact, the pie chart above shows that over half (50.6%) of all MMO subscriptions are for World of Warcraft. The growth of WoW has been phenomenal, and it’s great to be part of its popularity. However, we all know that WoW isn’t without its problems, and it’s going to be hard for a challenger to come along and threaten WoW’s dominance.”

While the WoW statistics from chart above doesn’t come as a surprise to me, what i found really interesting was the fact that Lineage is still holding on SOLID to the #2 and #3 spots. Combined, Lin1 and Lin2 are 23%, which is nearly 1/2 of the WoW’s scraps. If the games were great, I’d just shrug my shoulders at the notion, but having played WoW for so long, there’s no WAY I’d go back to the grind of Lineage.