Most Played MMORPGs 2023

Nobody wants to play a dead game and that’s even more true when it comes to MMORPGs as half of the content in these games straight up don’t exist if there’s no players to group up with or compete against so in this video we’re going to list the most played MMORPGs going into

2023 the MMOs that receive the most updates and are most likely to maintain a solid population throughout the year for this video I will not be using any of the data from the website’s mmopopulations.com as this has to be one of the most misleading websites I’ve

Ever seen and the data makes no sense look here for example this donkey website says that ashes of creation has 30k daily players when the game literally isn’t playable it says new world has between 250 and 450k daily players when we can see the data on Steam charts that it’s nowhere near this

Number most MMOs don’t actually disclose player numbers so I’ll be you using various other metrics to help me rank the games in this list the most important thing though is that all of the games mentioned in this video have a large enough population size for you to fully experience the game join guilds

And beat the content mate what are you doing in my video go back to where you came from hey what about my world what’s wrong with it aren’t you from a children’s game that is not true hero Wars has vibrant Graphics cool gameplay and a user-friendly interface okay let’s give

It a try Hero Wars is an idle RPG with a character for everyone from cyborgs to aliens vampires and of course furries I’ve been playing it for a bit now and I’ve just assembled my first full team next I’ll unlock Chaba he’s an awesome tank who literally devours his enemies

But Celeste is a real s tier she can switch between DPS dark form and heal a light form which makes her useful in any situation bonus points for the sexy outfit Hero Wars is a relaxing game that you can play anywhere anytime it’s very easy to start playing but it’s also a

Skill to build effective team compositions to counter your enemies for example Mojo the shaman can’t heal Dark Star the elf as efficiently as the good grandma Martha can Hero Wars is a world with six unique modes 300 plus skilled war servers and 100 million players before I forget though here’s a question

For you where can you get 30 000 coins 600 emeralds and 5 awesome Heroes to start dominating in Hero Wars the answer is in the link in the description below play Hero Wars now Star Wars the Old Republic is a theme park MMORPG with a tab Target combat system that released

All the way back in 2011. since then the games had eight notable expansions with the most recent one Legacy of the Sith releasing in February 2022 swital has done a great job of maintaining quite a study player base over the past 10 years the game is reviewed extremely well with

89 positive reviews on Steam and the game has a lot of content expect a mix of both PVP and PVE with group dungeons solo dungeons raids quests PvP Arenas Battlegrounds PVP galactic Starfighter outfit collecting daily missions events a main story with multiple choice dialogue options and player housing in

The form of strongholds when it comes to player numbers no exact numbers are published but based on a few stats I’d personally estimate sway tour has a concurrent player base in the region of 10 to 20K certainly enough players to find groups to experience all the content but it’s undoubtedly on a

Decline if you want to fully experience this MMO I’d say do it sooner rather than later as this game might not make this list in the future Eve online is the oldest MMORPG on this list and it’s still going incredibly strong to this day thanks to eveoffline.net we’re able to see

Accurate concurrent player numbers in real time for each of the game’s servers and as of making this video Eve ranges from between 20K and 35k players online at all times very impressive for an MMO that released all the way back in 2003 over the years eve has received so many

Updates that it doesn’t even look like a 2003 MMO it’s highly regarded as the number one space sandbox MMORPG and the game has a rich history with stories of legendary battles where players lost millions of dollars worth of spaceships Eve online is a very Niche MMO you’ll

Either love it or hate it luckily it’s free to play though so there’s no barrier to entry if you want to find out if it’s a game for you RuneScape 3 is another MMORPG that we have accurate concurrent player data for and it usually ranges between 20 to 35k

Players online at all times for those of you who are unaware there’s two different versions of RuneScape old school RuneScape and RuneScape 3. RuneScape 3 is the least popular of the two but still popular enough that it’s receiving regular content updates and is likely to be around for many years to

Come RuneScape 3 is a very different game to old school RuneScape different combat system more updated Graphics animations and effects different skills and quests it’s more heavily monetized and overall it feels like a near completely different game personally though I think RuneScape 3 is still

Quite a good MMO and where it shines the most in my opinion is in the fully voice acted quests which are some of the best in the MMORPG genre and the sense of progression you get from leveling your skills it’s a chill MMO that can be played on your second monitor her and

It’s no surprise to me that it’s made this list Guild Wars 2 is one of the easiest to recommend MMOs out there it’s the perfect game to drop in and out of multiple times throughout the year due to progression primarily being horizontal and not vertical whenever you

Come back to the game it’s easy to pick right back up where you left off and you never feel like you’re behind as for player numbers there’s no disclosed information about this the steam chart numbers are useless since most people use the launcher and the number on mmopopulations.com is just pulled from

Thin air personally I’d estimate Guild Wars 2 to have between 30 and 50k players online at all times if you go to Guild Wars 2 mists.com you can see that there’s a number of EU and na servers that are straight up full as well as multiple that are listed as very high

Anecdotally whenever I play this game even at 3am you still get 50 player groups forming for the map meta events very quickly the game just feels populated as for Content Guild Wars 2 has an amazing ongoing main storyline dungeons raids equalized PVP Arena large-scale World vs World battles

Fashion collection the best Mount system in the MMORPG genre and epic map wide meta events which usually end in a giant World boss fight definitely a game that’s still worth playing new world is an MMORPG that released in 2021 with a peak of 1 million players shortly after launch though the game’s

Player population plummeted for months due to numerous issues such as game breaking bugs poor game design a lack of content and a damaged economy thankfully since the brimstone Sans expansion that released in October 2022 new world has clawed its way back from mixed to very positive reviews on Steam and its player

Numbers have soared from 13k average concurrent to around 50 to 60k due to the fact this game is only available on Steam currently the steam charts numbers are an accurate representation of New World’s actual player numbers which isn’t the case for most MMOs on this list if you’ve never played a new world

Before this is an open world action combat MMORPG with one of the best Gathering systems in the MMO genre a solid crafting system voice acted main questline classless combat system PVP p in the form of open Wells Arenas and Battlegrounds and PVE in the form of event worlds bosses Dungeons and Elite

Mob open world farming spots I predict new worlds will go from strength to strength with each update and this time next year we’ll probably have even more players than it does now if it continues to release positive updates Elder Scrolls Online has been one of the most played MMORPGs ever since it

Released back in 2014 it’s an MMO that receives frequent updates it’s reviewed very positively and receives plenty of coverage from content creators on YouTube as for Content it’s got stuff for both PVP and PVE players you’ve got cyrodiil which is a massive open world PVP Zone with territory control and

Siege mechanics Battlegrounds duels solo dungeons group dungeons raids crafting and Gathering player housing an immersive main story for each Zone as well as world’s events this game basically has something for everyone Elder Scrolls Online falls into the theme park MMO category with an action combat hybrid system which some people

Find to be quite polarizing due to animation canceling and weapon swap mechanics as for player numbers it’s hard to get an accurate concurrent Play account because this game is available on multiple different platforms and launches it’s on Steam but most people play play through the eso launcher and

It’s also available on PS4 PS5 Xbox One and Xbox series XS I’d personally estimate ESO to have between 75 and 100K players online at all times across all platforms most importantly though the game feels populated when you play it and it’s easy to find groups and guilds

Old school RuneScape is the most popular of the two RuneScape versions with between 57k and 107k players online at any given time depending on the time of day osrs is a game that I personally love and it’s an MMO that you can literally spend thousands of hours in to

Try and max out your account to experience all of the content old school RuneScape also has in my opinion the most top tier content creators on YouTube out of any MMORPG we’ve settled swampletic series possibly being one of the greatest MMO video series ever made old school RuneScape is all about

Creating your own goals it’s a Sandbox MMO where you choose what stats you want to level what order you want to tackle the quests and what restrictions if any you want to place on yourself I’ve heard from many people that playing osrs as an Iron Man where you can’t trade with

Other players or receive help is one of the most satisfying MMO experiences you can possibly get and it’s something I plan on trying out myself off ready soon osrs is available on both mobile and PC and even in 2023 it’s a super easy game to recommend this isn’t just Nostalgia

Talking by the way it’s objectively one of the best designed MMORPGs ever created Albion online is one of the most successful MMORPGs to come out of crowdfunding and since releasing cross-platform on mobile the games play a population absolutely popped off the latest numbers we have is from June 2021 where the game reached

271k daily active accounts and since then the games had numerous massive updates which could have caused that number to go even higher when it comes to daily concurrent player numbers I think a fair estimate would be between 60 and 120k players online at any given time whenever I play Albion online I go

To a main city and there’s so many players that not all of them even load in this is because the game has one Mega server so everyone from Europe North America and Asia are all playing together now this is great for the purpose of having a thriving economy and

A world that feels rammed with players but depending on where you live the Ping can put you at a disadvantage with servers located in Washington DC e Albion online is a true sandbox MMORPG all of the gear in this game is crafted by the players there’s certain areas of

The world that have full loot PVP and players can even buy the crafting stations in the city and get a tax kick back whenever somebody uses them over the years Albion has added so much variety of content to the game that there’s something for everyone solo PVP

Group PVP high risk PVP zero risk PVP and the same can be said for Pure PVE players I’ll cut my rambling about Albion online here but tldr it’s a highly popular MMO that has something for everyone constant massive updates and it’s definitely worth playing Black Desert online love it or hate it

This MMORPG is absolutely huge the only data we have for this game is the steam chart numbers for n a slash EU on PC but that doesn’t take into consideration that most people don’t play it from Steam the game is available on PS4 PS5 Xbox One Xbox series X as well as

Multiple regions such as Korea southeast Asia Russia Middle East and South America across all platforms and regions I’d have to estimate that Black Desert online has at least 100 to 175k players logged in at all times possibly even higher BDO is a Korean sandbox MMORPG with the best action combat system in

The MMO genre in this game you’ll spend a lot of time in mob grinding pvping with other players for your grind spot leveling your life skills building your worker Empire and trying to figure out the best way to make money on your 2000 plus hour drawings to maxing out your

Gear at end game you’ll be partaking in PvP node wars castle sieges dungeons boss challenges praying to the RNG gods for a tier 10 horse or decorating your instanced player house for Erp underwear parties is BDO still worth playing honestly that depends on two things one

Have you got anything better to do and two how big is your bank balance Lost Ark is the most popular top-down MMORPG by far this game exploded on Steam and it released in the West in 2022 reaching highs of 1.3 million concurrent players and that’s not even mentioning career

Where the game is also absolutely massive since launch lost ark’s player numbers have dropped with one big reason being the devs constantly trying to combat Bots which some players claim account for 50 of the numbers we see on Steam charts in 2022 Lost Ark saw 260 km current plays on the Korean servers

Alone following a big update so all things considered I think globally across all servers a conservative estimate without Bots would be that lost ark has between 300K and 600k real players online at any given time across all servers naeu Korea Russia and Japan now that number could be higher but I think it’s

Reasonable to put Lost Ark as the number three most popular MMORPG so is the game any good yes as much as some people slate Lost Ark for being paid to win I think by Korean MMO standards the pay to win isn’t nearly as bad as other games

In fact I think you can fully enjoy Lost Ark completely free to play or just with the optional subscription as for Content the game has a ton of horizontal progression Collectibles completionism equalized PvP Arenas the best isometric action combat system in the MMO genre some of the best AIDS in the MMO genre

Fashion collecting daily bosses mini games mounts and player housing in the form of strongholds the game actually has even more stuff than that but tldr yes it’s worth playing Final Fantasy 14 it’s extremely difficult to even estimate the average concurrent player numbers for this game for the following reasons the steam

Chart numbers represent a tiny fraction of the player base that actually play via steam the game is available on PlayStation 3 4 and 5 as well as being available in multiple regions and we have no official numbers by the developers in regards to how many people actually play this game daily given the

Fact that Final Fantasy 14 made 511 million dollars gross revenue in the year during the end Walker release we can roughly estimate that the game has between 2 to 2.5 million monthly subscribers the game has a 12.99 monthly sub fee they sell various services and cosmetics on the mug store and the new

Expansion costs 40 dollars to buy so with a little bit of napkin math I think those numbers are somewhat accurate to break this down further into concurrent players each server in Final Fantasy 14 can handle a maximum of between 6 to 10 000 players online at any given time the

Game has 69 servers across multiple regions so a maximum concurrent player count of between 400 and 700k players online at any given time seems reasonable during the end Walker expansion release a lot of the servers had logging cues in the range of 15 to 20K so at its

Absolute Peak the game had well over 1.5 million people trying to play the game none of this really matters though what really matters is that Final Fantasy 14 is a highly social active MMORPG where you’ll easily be able to find guilds groups and people to hang out with at

Any time of the day if you’re a fan of cat girls and trying to nice guy your way into the pants of another guy role-playing as a female character then there’s no better MMO out there for you people generally consider Final Fantasy 14 to have top tier rating top tier

Story top tier fashion and top tier role play if you’re a PVP player or fan of sandbox MMOs and don’t care about story it might not be the game for you though the last time World of Warcraft published official player numbers was back in 2015 when it hit an all-time low

Of 5.5 million Subs during the Warlords of draunal content drought now that was seven years ago at this point but with the release of wow classic TBC Wrath of the Lich King Classic and dragonfly interesting wow seems to have had a bit of resurgence in recent years a lot of

Old veteran players returned to the game for classic servers but stuck around and transitioned to retail when they burned through all the classic content anecdotally all of my wow friends returns to the game for dragonfly which seems to be one of the most well-received expansions in years so far

Additionally someone made an estimated wow classic population chart by extrapolating data from raid passes which puts the classic population at around half a mil we don’t truly know how many players wow has in total but it’s probably somewhere in the region of 4.5 million subscribers with one to 2

Million daily concurrent players World of Warcraft doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon and as of making this video blizzard recently released a road map for the current expansion for the first time ever blizzard and World of Warcraft have been generating a lot of W’s recently and Community sentiment

Around the game seems to be quite positive if there was ever a time to play World of Warcraft now seems like the best time in Years to jump into it but that’s it for the most played MMORPGs heading into 2023 I really did my best to give some somewhat realistic

Player population estimates during this video as the data that’s constantly referenced in websites such as mmopolations.com and activeplayers.io is clearly off by a lot maybe my numbers are slightly off in this video but what I’m quite confident on is the order in which I’ve placed these games Honestly

Though past a certain point player numbers don’t really matter if you’re playing an MMO that has 20K concurrent players on a single server but only a total of 60k daily players you’re going to meet more players out in the world than an MMO with 1 million subscribers

But with servers that can only support 5 to 10K concurrent what really matters is that you’re able to beat all of the content and find players to group up with to do that once that becomes too time consuming then the game will start to feel dead even if that is isn’t

Necessarily the case when you look at the overall data if you enjoyed this video or found it helpful then help me out with a like for the algorithm gods and let me know in the comments below if you think this list will be slightly different heading into 2024 shout out to

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