I am surprised not to se Star Trek Online there, but then, it was always a small-ish game.
94 thoughts on “Top 10 F2P MMO’s of 2013…”
World of Warcraft free to play??
Read the notes at the bottom.
Ahh i see now.. damn always read small text :) So this chart is only for MICROTRANSACTIONS, i.e. mounts pets – that kind of shit. 15$ per month from 7 mil+ subscribers its not in that figure. :)
People probably buy so many cute pets in the shop :D
I’m surprised WoW is so low down the rankings.
it doesnt count subscriptions earning
only microtransactions
so basically blizzard made 213kk$ selling pets and mounts ;3
that’s…..rather sad about what it says of the playerbase
Why?
Imo store pets looks awesome
Crossfire must be really popular in Not-The-Best Korea, btw Combat Arms is way better Korean F2P game.
Also why isn’t Dota 2 there?
>Also why isn’t Dota 2 there?
because we dont know how much it makes
valve is private company they dont have to release earnings
unlike tencet or activions-blizzard
But still Valve still gives out what TF2 does? Strange.
Probably doesnt generate enough revenue?
It should since Dota 2 is played by about seven times the people that play the second most popular game on Steam. And TF2 is the third.
Yeah, that’s a surprise to me. CA is better. I have yet to sign in to Extinction Beta…
Nope,but in China.
Korean server has been shut down for a period,but Tencent’s cn server keeps running,and pretty well.Then they had money to get the codol or so.
It’s fucking popular in Indonesia, despite it being just a damn clone of CS Online, which is a 100% Valve-backed clone of the regular CS.
I’m surprised that STO isn’t there…and TF2 being at all in the list…wow, I’m impressed :D
Well top 10 games played on Steam today are:
1. Dota 2 with 613,297 Peak Today
2. CS:GO with 91,078 Peak Today
3. Team Fortress 2 with 80,040 Peak Today
4. Football Manager 2014 with 75,490 Peak Today
5. Skyrim with 66,105 Peak Today
6. Civ V with 62,417 Peak Today
7. Garry’s Mod with 47,351 Peak Today
8. Original CS with 41,173 Peak Today
9. DayZ with 36,767 Peak Today
10. Rust with 38,513 Peak Today
I’m surprised how Dota 2 isn’t on the list.
Steam is EU/US domain and this chart is WORLDWIDE
I wonder how many Russians/Asians use steam….
>I wonder how many Russian
there is as much dota 2 players in ukraine ALONE as in US
dota is a very popular game in CiS so its probably a lot of peaople
>Asians
hmmm. fuck Nexon!
Newell said that Russia is 4th largest market for Steam so I guess it is quite popular there.
Russians are a plague on EU west and east servers, I practically learned that shit language just by playing dota on EU west server.
Are there micro-transactions in TF2 ? I thought it’s completely free.
hats and stuff like in dota (but in dota they are only cosmetic)
Well only stupid people buy useful stuff in TF2, most people buy cosmetics / keys.
source?
and why you call these ppl stupid?
http://store.teamfortress.com/#p=2
This has no hats because people just buy keys to trade for metal/hats to open crates for unusual hats.
Also I call them stupid because with a key $2.5 you can trade about 8 weapons (or you used to) when some weapons on the shop cost $10 and are untradeable. PS. Editing comments is broken on IE.
Key word: CAN trade, but we all know how people constantly lowball you in trades, even if you both know the actual value of the offer.
I don’t know man, I’ve been out of the TF2 trading scheme for over a year now atleast!
You can buy cosmetic stuff (hats, crates with random loot and keys to open them) for real money.
also bundles and map stamps. also dont forget the Steam Market. if you suck in trading, and you have a bullion reserve, just buy it.
(WARNING: Currently limited to only Stranges, Killstreak weapons, Genuines, Vintages, Collectors, keys, and crates)
Indeed, surprised too that ST:O didnt make it on the list.
Maybe Cryptic / PWE just didnt disclose their numbers.
I am curious whether neverwinter will be on that list next year.
Must be too small playerbase (which can be good for the community sometimes)
regarding steam:
I banned it from my harddrive several years ago, didnt regret it.
(and now someone tell me how to upload an avatar pic=
Why would you “ban” Steam? :3
Its amazing platform
Go to gravatar.com and sign in with your WordPress account :D
Thanks a lot.
@Finear: I had a some bad experience with steam some years ago. didnt bother to try again yet.
Steam was bad at release but since then they improved everything
Outside wot and wow I don’t play non steam games
Is super convenient
Patches downloads forums guides communities and chat all in one place
Steam wasn’t brilliant at first, but now Steam has the monopoly of the release platforms on PC.
True. I really like Steam as well. Ever tried installing Uplay? Looks like it was designed for 10year olds and bombards you with ads how you shoud BUY desktop WALLPAPERS!! Also, slow, and probably not even a third of the options of Steam.
I don’t know whether or not I should be surprised that WoT has overtaken WoW.
microtransations, not counting WoW sub.
it doesnt count subscription
blizzard is making a lot more than WG
1260kk$ from subs + 213kk$ from microtransactions
CrossFire. A game, where you won’t get much for much of your money.
Also suffers a hacker plague from time to time. But don’t worry, these last only a few weeks! ;)
I wonder how this game hit the #1 place.
China market. Billions upon billions of people throwing money at games their crappy net-cafe computers can play.
Actually those are not billions of people at netcafe. Netcafe in China can at least play WoT properly.
Problem is that CrossFire is really popular with elementary school kids who actually ate the bullshit that was fed to them by crossfire advertising(most realistic/3 billion people’s firefight dream).
A Golden Type 59 was introduced and Chinese WoT players hate it for being so rediculous in a game that boasts historical accuracy (this attitude is shown by numerous teamkills).
A Golden AK47 (which ridiculously shoots more accurate than the normal AK) was introduced and CrossFire players (who were mainly primary school pupils) rushed to buy it. Plus, if you buy premium account (called “blue diamond” AFAIK), you will have 120HP while F2P players have only 100. Oh, and not only AK47 has its golden (“more powerful”) version, seems the M4 and a lot of other weapons have it too. Those playing CF just LOVE to pay2win.
So you see where the money’s coming from.
Funny considering how many hackers there are in Crossfire. The game looks bad and the gameplay gets boring after a while, but it’s the hackers that made me leave and never come back to it.
Or maybe killing everyone on the map from the spawn site in the first 2 sec of the match, or running around at 10x the regular speed are powerups they were selling… not sure… maybe that’s how they get so much money.
Every Korean F2P game is so fucking P2W, also they all have a huge ammount of hackers.
The good Old Maplestory has the same problem with hackers. But I quited mostly a long time ago cuz its so uber p2w that it wasnt fun anymore
Nexon games bruv…
Wondering how Lineage 1 could be on the 2013 list as the game service was terminated by June 2011…
NA server was, the game’s huge on the Korean market.
these are not mmos
not all of them
lol, wot, TF2 are not havent played CSO and crossfire but i imagine they are not mmo too
CSO is basically a Combat Arms that runs on the GoldenSrc Engine (used on the 1.6) and CrossFire are are just basic FPS games, not MMO.
Everything played online with more than 1 player is MMO…
Umm
No?
Battlefield is not mmo
Planetside 2 is one
Find the difference
Man, they are MOs, MMO means MASSIVELY multiplayer online, which WoT is surprisingly.
Multiplayer online – wot, dota, sc2
Massively – wow, swtor
you mistake MMO for MMORPG
You mistake multiplayer online game with massively multilayer online game
There is nothing massive about lol or dota or wot gameplay
I am surprised not to se Star Trek Online there
Which one is the star trek one? Or do yo mean star wars?
Anyone gonna reply or are ya all too foreign.
There is no star trek on that list..?
STO lost in popularity last year. I don’t think they qualify for the top 10.
never heard of that “crossfire” game before, not even saw an ad, review, comment, preview, trailer, anything, yet it’s the 1st?, sounds IFFY
same with dungeon fighter online, what is that?
They are huge on the Korean market.
DFO is a 2d fighting gameish thing. It used to be decent sized but not too big in NA, but then they closed down the servers here. Both Crossfire and DFO are simply massive in Asia.
that explains it…
i googled a little and that crossfire is a horrible counter-strike 1:1 clone, it looks like CS classic(on half life 1 engine).
the other one urgh.. sidescroller arcace-2d game.. pass
Either these companies are earning square dollars, or someone f*cked up the chart (trollface)
Earnings don’t extacly equal popularity, I’ve never heard about nearly half of games on this list… It just indicates what’s a bigger P2W…
One word: Korea
I’m surprised that War thunder didn’t make the top 10
currently WT avg users 30K-50K it’s very low like 2-5% from that of WoT world wide. do the math.
Never heard of Crossfire fire before reading this article looks a bad version of counter strike might download to get a better opinion of it.
DFO was a fun game, it’s too bad they pulled the plug on it outside of Korea
em that cant be ok , wow and cs arent f2p , and crossfire are total garbage
It’s not what is good but produces the most earnings
CrossFire almost 1 billion dollars income? I thought this game is not that good. Also they should more advertise itself, because I see lots of WOT ads and they even don`t make that much.
$372 million is alot of money in my book. And the reason you see so many WOT adverts is Google tracks your internet use and puts up ads that correspond to your search history.
most profit doesn’t mean the best game or most players.
An AK gun that is more powerful, carries more bullets, enables faster weapon switch, brings 3x XP bonus to the owner and a small bonus to his team, adds “cool” marks to the room the owner creates ,and most importantly is permanent (without time limit of use), costs 888RMB on CN server run by Tencent.
You do the math.
BTW CF doesn’t need advertisement,every primary school pupil knows it. (“primary school pupil” = noobs among Chinese playerbase)
*has never even heard of crossfire*
Just checked that Crossfire game and it is just such obvious copy of CS 1.6 that I find it hard to believe that such game made so much money only for selling ingame shits like new character skin, terminator glasses etc… Its just ridiculous … also graphics seems really terrible.
An AK gun that is more powerful, carries more bullets, enables faster weapon switch, brings 3x XP bonus to the owner and a small bonus to his team, adds “cool” marks to the room the owner creates ,and most importantly is permanent (without time limit of use), costs 888RMB on CN server run by Tencent.
Almost anything that’s related to pay2win is sold in this game.
Did I mention that with the 888RMB AK gun you can choose whether the result of a battle is recorded? Theoretically you can build a 100% winrate account with it. Literally pay2win.
Crossfire seriously?! 0_0)!
That game is aged already, wdf? Would have understood if LoL is at the top place, but that below par Counter Strike?
Shame that DFO got discontinued.
Never heard of crossfire and dungeon online untill now.
Really amazed to see that such shitty games make so much money…
Lineage I? I thought there is only Lineage II.
lineage 1 is still going? i thought it was canned! I thought my massive time waste character was forever lost!
With top tier C-Store ships costing around 30$ or 50$ for a 3-pack, and seeing shitload of them in-game, along with Lock box ships (needs $ to open a lottery box to get them), costumes, pets and such, I am really surprised STO is not in the list as well.
True, you can farm Dil and save $ if you are persistent/unemployed, but judging from US players I play with, no one bothers wasting time with that (usually takes weeks), micro-transactions are preffered option.
Weird.
Interesting. Thanks to kids who play shit with their wooden pc from China so that crossfire could be the top while the Korean server has been shut down.
CN WOT’s golden type 59 just learnt from cn crossfire’s golden ak47 or so.
With all that money you would think they could get rid of Telia for the East US server….
World of Warcraft free to play??
Read the notes at the bottom.
Ahh i see now.. damn always read small text :) So this chart is only for MICROTRANSACTIONS, i.e. mounts pets – that kind of shit. 15$ per month from 7 mil+ subscribers its not in that figure. :)
People probably buy so many cute pets in the shop :D
I’m surprised WoW is so low down the rankings.
it doesnt count subscriptions earning
only microtransactions
so basically blizzard made 213kk$ selling pets and mounts ;3
that’s…..rather sad about what it says of the playerbase
Why?
Imo store pets looks awesome
Crossfire must be really popular in Not-The-Best Korea, btw Combat Arms is way better Korean F2P game.
Also why isn’t Dota 2 there?
>Also why isn’t Dota 2 there?
because we dont know how much it makes
valve is private company they dont have to release earnings
unlike tencet or activions-blizzard
But still Valve still gives out what TF2 does? Strange.
Probably doesnt generate enough revenue?
It should since Dota 2 is played by about seven times the people that play the second most popular game on Steam. And TF2 is the third.
Yeah, that’s a surprise to me. CA is better. I have yet to sign in to Extinction Beta…
Nope,but in China.
Korean server has been shut down for a period,but Tencent’s cn server keeps running,and pretty well.Then they had money to get the codol or so.
It’s fucking popular in Indonesia, despite it being just a damn clone of CS Online, which is a 100% Valve-backed clone of the regular CS.
I’m surprised that STO isn’t there…and TF2 being at all in the list…wow, I’m impressed :D
Well top 10 games played on Steam today are:
1. Dota 2 with 613,297 Peak Today
2. CS:GO with 91,078 Peak Today
3. Team Fortress 2 with 80,040 Peak Today
4. Football Manager 2014 with 75,490 Peak Today
5. Skyrim with 66,105 Peak Today
6. Civ V with 62,417 Peak Today
7. Garry’s Mod with 47,351 Peak Today
8. Original CS with 41,173 Peak Today
9. DayZ with 36,767 Peak Today
10. Rust with 38,513 Peak Today
I’m surprised how Dota 2 isn’t on the list.
Steam is EU/US domain and this chart is WORLDWIDE
I wonder how many Russians/Asians use steam….
>I wonder how many Russian
there is as much dota 2 players in ukraine ALONE as in US
dota is a very popular game in CiS so its probably a lot of peaople
>Asians
hmmm. fuck Nexon!
Newell said that Russia is 4th largest market for Steam so I guess it is quite popular there.
http://images.vg247.com/current//2014/01/Steam_regional.jpg
Dude do you even doto?
Russians are a plague on EU west and east servers, I practically learned that shit language just by playing dota on EU west server.
Are there micro-transactions in TF2 ? I thought it’s completely free.
hats and stuff like in dota (but in dota they are only cosmetic)
Well only stupid people buy useful stuff in TF2, most people buy cosmetics / keys.
source?
and why you call these ppl stupid?
http://store.teamfortress.com/#p=2
This has no hats because people just buy keys to trade for metal/hats to open crates for unusual hats.
Also I call them stupid because with a key $2.5 you can trade about 8 weapons (or you used to) when some weapons on the shop cost $10 and are untradeable. PS. Editing comments is broken on IE.
Key word: CAN trade, but we all know how people constantly lowball you in trades, even if you both know the actual value of the offer.
I don’t know man, I’ve been out of the TF2 trading scheme for over a year now atleast!
You can buy cosmetic stuff (hats, crates with random loot and keys to open them) for real money.
also bundles and map stamps. also dont forget the Steam Market. if you suck in trading, and you have a bullion reserve, just buy it.
(WARNING: Currently limited to only Stranges, Killstreak weapons, Genuines, Vintages, Collectors, keys, and crates)
Indeed, surprised too that ST:O didnt make it on the list.
Maybe Cryptic / PWE just didnt disclose their numbers.
I am curious whether neverwinter will be on that list next year.
Must be too small playerbase (which can be good for the community sometimes)
regarding steam:
I banned it from my harddrive several years ago, didnt regret it.
(and now someone tell me how to upload an avatar pic=
Why would you “ban” Steam? :3
Its amazing platform
Go to gravatar.com and sign in with your WordPress account :D
Thanks a lot.
@Finear: I had a some bad experience with steam some years ago. didnt bother to try again yet.
Steam was bad at release but since then they improved everything
Outside wot and wow I don’t play non steam games
Is super convenient
Patches downloads forums guides communities and chat all in one place
Steam wasn’t brilliant at first, but now Steam has the monopoly of the release platforms on PC.
True. I really like Steam as well. Ever tried installing Uplay? Looks like it was designed for 10year olds and bombards you with ads how you shoud BUY desktop WALLPAPERS!! Also, slow, and probably not even a third of the options of Steam.
I don’t know whether or not I should be surprised that WoT has overtaken WoW.
microtransations, not counting WoW sub.
it doesnt count subscription
blizzard is making a lot more than WG
1260kk$ from subs + 213kk$ from microtransactions
CrossFire. A game, where you won’t get much for much of your money.
Also suffers a hacker plague from time to time. But don’t worry, these last only a few weeks! ;)
I wonder how this game hit the #1 place.
China market. Billions upon billions of people throwing money at games their crappy net-cafe computers can play.
Actually those are not billions of people at netcafe. Netcafe in China can at least play WoT properly.
Problem is that CrossFire is really popular with elementary school kids who actually ate the bullshit that was fed to them by crossfire advertising(most realistic/3 billion people’s firefight dream).
A Golden Type 59 was introduced and Chinese WoT players hate it for being so rediculous in a game that boasts historical accuracy (this attitude is shown by numerous teamkills).
A Golden AK47 (which ridiculously shoots more accurate than the normal AK) was introduced and CrossFire players (who were mainly primary school pupils) rushed to buy it. Plus, if you buy premium account (called “blue diamond” AFAIK), you will have 120HP while F2P players have only 100. Oh, and not only AK47 has its golden (“more powerful”) version, seems the M4 and a lot of other weapons have it too. Those playing CF just LOVE to pay2win.
So you see where the money’s coming from.
Funny considering how many hackers there are in Crossfire. The game looks bad and the gameplay gets boring after a while, but it’s the hackers that made me leave and never come back to it.
Or maybe killing everyone on the map from the spawn site in the first 2 sec of the match, or running around at 10x the regular speed are powerups they were selling… not sure… maybe that’s how they get so much money.
Every Korean F2P game is so fucking P2W, also they all have a huge ammount of hackers.
The good Old Maplestory has the same problem with hackers. But I quited mostly a long time ago cuz its so uber p2w that it wasnt fun anymore
Nexon games bruv…
Wondering how Lineage 1 could be on the 2013 list as the game service was terminated by June 2011…
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/11/ncsoft-shutting-down-lineage-in-north-america/
NA server was, the game’s huge on the Korean market.
these are not mmos
not all of them
lol, wot, TF2 are not havent played CSO and crossfire but i imagine they are not mmo too
CSO is basically a Combat Arms that runs on the GoldenSrc Engine (used on the 1.6) and CrossFire are are just basic FPS games, not MMO.
Everything played online with more than 1 player is MMO…
Umm
No?
Battlefield is not mmo
Planetside 2 is one
Find the difference
Man, they are MOs, MMO means MASSIVELY multiplayer online, which WoT is surprisingly.
Multiplayer online – wot, dota, sc2
Massively – wow, swtor
you mistake MMO for MMORPG
You mistake multiplayer online game with massively multilayer online game
There is nothing massive about lol or dota or wot gameplay
I am surprised not to se Star Trek Online there
Which one is the star trek one? Or do yo mean star wars?
Anyone gonna reply or are ya all too foreign.
There is no star trek on that list..?
STO lost in popularity last year. I don’t think they qualify for the top 10.
never heard of that “crossfire” game before, not even saw an ad, review, comment, preview, trailer, anything, yet it’s the 1st?, sounds IFFY
same with dungeon fighter online, what is that?
They are huge on the Korean market.
DFO is a 2d fighting gameish thing. It used to be decent sized but not too big in NA, but then they closed down the servers here. Both Crossfire and DFO are simply massive in Asia.
that explains it…
i googled a little and that crossfire is a horrible counter-strike 1:1 clone, it looks like CS classic(on half life 1 engine).
the other one urgh.. sidescroller arcace-2d game.. pass
Either these companies are earning square dollars, or someone f*cked up the chart (trollface)
Earnings don’t extacly equal popularity, I’ve never heard about nearly half of games on this list… It just indicates what’s a bigger P2W…
One word: Korea
I’m surprised that War thunder didn’t make the top 10
currently WT avg users 30K-50K it’s very low like 2-5% from that of WoT world wide. do the math.
Never heard of Crossfire fire before reading this article looks a bad version of counter strike might download to get a better opinion of it.
DFO was a fun game, it’s too bad they pulled the plug on it outside of Korea
em that cant be ok , wow and cs arent f2p , and crossfire are total garbage
It’s not what is good but produces the most earnings
CrossFire almost 1 billion dollars income? I thought this game is not that good. Also they should more advertise itself, because I see lots of WOT ads and they even don`t make that much.
$372 million is alot of money in my book. And the reason you see so many WOT adverts is Google tracks your internet use and puts up ads that correspond to your search history.
most profit doesn’t mean the best game or most players.
An AK gun that is more powerful, carries more bullets, enables faster weapon switch, brings 3x XP bonus to the owner and a small bonus to his team, adds “cool” marks to the room the owner creates ,and most importantly is permanent (without time limit of use), costs 888RMB on CN server run by Tencent.
You do the math.
BTW CF doesn’t need advertisement,every primary school pupil knows it. (“primary school pupil” = noobs among Chinese playerbase)
*has never even heard of crossfire*
Just checked that Crossfire game and it is just such obvious copy of CS 1.6 that I find it hard to believe that such game made so much money only for selling ingame shits like new character skin, terminator glasses etc… Its just ridiculous … also graphics seems really terrible.
An AK gun that is more powerful, carries more bullets, enables faster weapon switch, brings 3x XP bonus to the owner and a small bonus to his team, adds “cool” marks to the room the owner creates ,and most importantly is permanent (without time limit of use), costs 888RMB on CN server run by Tencent.
Almost anything that’s related to pay2win is sold in this game.
Did I mention that with the 888RMB AK gun you can choose whether the result of a battle is recorded? Theoretically you can build a 100% winrate account with it. Literally pay2win.
Crossfire seriously?! 0_0)!
That game is aged already, wdf? Would have understood if LoL is at the top place, but that below par Counter Strike?
Shame that DFO got discontinued.
Never heard of crossfire and dungeon online untill now.
Really amazed to see that such shitty games make so much money…
Lineage I? I thought there is only Lineage II.
lineage 1 is still going? i thought it was canned! I thought my massive time waste character was forever lost!
With top tier C-Store ships costing around 30$ or 50$ for a 3-pack, and seeing shitload of them in-game, along with Lock box ships (needs $ to open a lottery box to get them), costumes, pets and such, I am really surprised STO is not in the list as well.
True, you can farm Dil and save $ if you are persistent/unemployed, but judging from US players I play with, no one bothers wasting time with that (usually takes weeks), micro-transactions are preffered option.
Weird.
Interesting. Thanks to kids who play shit with their wooden pc from China so that crossfire could be the top while the Korean server has been shut down.
CN WOT’s golden type 59 just learnt from cn crossfire’s golden ak47 or so.
With all that money you would think they could get rid of Telia for the East US server….