That’s a healthy number and I wouldn’t doubt it overly much. The server I’m on consistently has two instances of it. The name has now been moved out of alpha order and placed at the bottom. I assume that’s to discourage people from continuing to create characters there. I’m never in a zone that is completely empty. I do hope they can do something about the lag in the cities. It’s that EQ2 city lag that irks me. Is that really the price that has to be paid for the more realistic graphics in more congested areas? Hopefully someone will create a mod like there was for EQ2 where you could have preset graphics settings. WAR tried to do it but there’s behaved very wonky and counter intuitive. Their UI design really paid the price for intentionally not copying other game features.

Hey that makes it more popular than Warhammer!

Taiwan, China, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan I think, in Asia.

On the Euro side there are 7 servers, 4 German and 3 English. At least the server I play on have plenty of people in all zones I have been in so far and 3 instances of it running all the time. The majority of the players are probably in Asia. I will not be surprised if they increase the numbers quite a bit during the year.

Let’s be honest here people: these figures are not that impressive when compared with P2P titles.

“I’m shocked a F2P has proven so successful in my lifetime.”

Go and looks up player numbers for titles like Guild Wars (5,000,000) and RuneScape (5,000,000). Realise that this is simply a marketing. They are aware that they aren’t the top F2P title out there but some inventive spin and partnerships with the right people mean they can twist things as much as they want.