One billion in virtual worlds by 2017
That’s the claim by Strategy Analytics, an international strategic and consulting services firm.
Of course, registrations don’t mean too much, it’s the active users that do. That said, if ten percent of those billion end up active it’s still a large market. Add to that the likelihood of greater activity by registration as usability improves and [...]
K-Zero: more than 300 million registered for virtual worlds
K-Zero are a company that follow metrics in virtual worlds and last week they released their updated chart showing the number of registrations by platform over time.
Note that gaming worlds like World of Warcraft (with more than ten million active users) aren’t even part of the 300+ million, which just further illustrates the growing depth [...]
Australians in Second Life Update – finally a bounce back
Linden Lab have released their metrics through until the end of February 2008. The regular downward trend has been reversed, with 12,245 active Australian Second Life users. That’s an increase from last month’s 10,885 and Australia remains in 11th place in terms of countries with active users.
There’s still a fair climb to exceed previous highs [...]
Australians in Second Life Update – stagnant as she goes
Linden Lab have released their latest set of metrics through to the end of January 2008. The metrics show that the Australian active user population is 10,885, up marginally from last month’s 10,644. Australia remains at its long-standing 11th position in the world, with 2% of the overall active user population.
The lack of growth is [...]
The growth in Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG)
If statistics and charts are your thing then you’ll love this site which provides a roundup of everything MMOG from a metrics viewpoint. Any business wondering whether there’s a market in virtual worlds need only spend a few minutes looking at the graphs to get a pretty clear answer…
Latest Second Life service metrics posted
It’s all here on the Linden blog. There’s now a full set of data for 2007 performance including until end of January 2008:
It’s fair to say things are still far from pretty on the stability side. Still more than one in five Second Life sessions end in either a viewer or region crash although there’s [...]
Linden Lab Press ‘Tech Talk’ Media Conference – Aussie Second Life servers still likely.
Today at 3pm SL time (10am Saturday 26th January AEDT) Linden Lab held a media conference entitled ‘Tech Talk’ that featured Linden Lab’s VP of Platform and Technology Development Joe Miller, VP of Systems Engineering Ian Wilkes and Software Developer / Havok 4 ‘Guru’ Andrew Meadows.
Each member of the media present was allowed one question [...]
