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Free Realms hits a million players in 18 days

by Griffin McElroy on May 15th 2009 7:00PM

What do you get when you cross an in incredibly accessible, casual MMO, a free-to-play subscription plan, a widely circulated ad campaign and magical, magical fairies? Why, you get Free Realms, of course -- and in turn, Free Realms gets 1,000,000 registered accounts in just 18 days.

We knew that Sony Online Entertainment had stumbled upon a recipe for mind-blowing success (an in-game trading card game and kart racing? That's just fiendish), but to get a million players on board in just over two weeks is simply remarkable. We're terrified to think of how this number will skyrocket when the game lands on PS3s. Terrified, we tell you!

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Tags: free-realms, mmo, MMORPG, soe, sony

Reader Comments (25)

but it's soo bad :/

I find it mildly addicting, and enjoy the game a lot.

1 million ay?
Shame it did not work for me properly the first time i logged in, maybe i'll check back and see what it's like now.

They can't release this on PS3, people already don't get on Home much, this will kill it.

That's weird but every time I log into home most spaces are mostly packed.funny stuff huh...

COOL! How do I post an almost invisible comment like yours? Its so cool man

I was in the beta and own a normal account now, I did a review on my site for it

wait, you're not going to spam the link to your review? does... not ... compute

Lol I don't put links unless someone asks for it, otherwise its just spam

Don't the Korean MMO's get this sort of thing early on? All 1 million of them?

I was in the beta and I played it for a good bit. Haven't gotten around to playing the full version yet :p

It is like - every possible game wrapped up into one game. Though it isn't exactly free to play in my estimation - it is really seemingly just a long demo. I was had a Ninja up to level 15 and they put up the quest for getting level 20 but that was pay only - which was pretty disappointing.

It is pretty good though - all and all. Nothing done overly well - just a lot done.

Bah, it is not uncommon for an MMORPG to get 1mill+ registered accounts. It has happened with any PC MMORPG game (its nothing like an RPG console game)...

All they are saying is that a lot of people made accounts to "try it"... It doesn't mean that 1million+ users are going to actively play the game. Most of the people will probably try it for a few weeks and move on to something else when they figure out you need money to get anywhere decent in the game.

If you want a fun free MMORPG, try 2Moons. Its free, and you can level as high as everyone else, without paying money. It just takes longer.

To be honest, I only read the first paragraph of your comment because I didn't want to read any more. Anyways, you do realize this is a record amount in such a short time, right?

This is a great feat, they did a great job of marketing it. I've seen TV commercials for it.

I received my Beta about a month ago....logged on and was there many hours that night.

It's kind of like a WoW game for kids.

I think it's a great idea to port to the PS3 so more kids would be able to have a game suited to their age to play.

It may also bring more younger people to the PS3, so I give credit to Sony for trying this.

I picked up some "trial+bonus" (trial for the payed subscription version, I guess...) cards at Bestbuy to try out with my siblings. I just hope it doesn't install any extra junk software that I don't want...

Rack this up to the power of Johny Test(guitar riffs).

Well, I knew it would be successful due to it's oddly cool-sounding formula, accessibility, and family-friendliness, but a million already? That was unexpected.

Good for them, this is definitely one of those positive-attention-getting things that Sony needs right now along with a great E3 and that promised assload of marketing. I mean sure, the mainstream media will still hate them some Sony, but whatever.

it didnt run very smooth on my PC. I will rather wait till it comes on PS3.

I really, really hate that your site doesn't have any external links. Especially in stories like this - it shouldn't be that unreasonable to have a link to this game's site. No one wants to go to your "Free Realms" tag when they click on that link, they want to go to the Free Realms website to see what it is that you're talking about.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+realms

@Lone Starr: xD That is awesome.

Sure they have a million players now, but how many will leave after the first week, I bet at least 700,0000.

*700,000

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