{"id":67265,"date":"2014-07-27T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T08:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67265"},"modified":"2014-07-27T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T08:25:02","slug":"top-mmos-are-losing-their-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/67265-top-mmos-are-losing-their-players","title":{"rendered":"Top MMOs are losing their players"},"content":{"rendered":"

SuperData recently released its US digital games market report<\/a>, which showed us who not only rules the MMO roost, but what the current trend is for pay-to-play titles.<\/p>\n

World of Warcraft is in\u00a0top-spot, with a rather large lead in terms of revenue and market share, followed by Lineage 1, and Tera: Online.<\/p>\n

The table, below, shows the top 10 MMOs for 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Top<\/a>

Top Subscriber-Based MMOs<\/p><\/div>\n

The report, however, focused on the fact that the player base for subscriber-based MMOs has been in decline since 2010, dropping to 23.4 million players this year.<\/p>\n

To offset the loss of revenue from declining player numbers, games are now moving towards mico-transactions to rake in the cash.<\/p>\n

“In the past five years, the percentage of revenue for subscription-based MMO generated via additional in-game microtransactions has roughly doubled from 14% for 27%. In addition, the average digital spend, in addition to the monthly fee, has tripled from $16 to $46, worldwide,” the report stated.<\/p>\n

“Despite the overall decline, this category has so far managed to maximize their ability to monetise a shrinking, yet loyal, player base.”<\/p>\n

As you can see, below, player numbers have been in sharp decline since the high of 2010.<\/p>\n

\"MMO<\/a>

MMO Subsciptions in Decline<\/p><\/div>\n

Do you play any of these titles, or pay-to-play MMOs? Are you getting bored of them? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

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Top MMOs are losing their players, but are cashing in on micro-transactions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":67273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,469,963,635],"class_list":["post-67265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-mmo","tag-subscription-services","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}