[...] Raph says that Audition, Korea’s massively multiplayer dancing game, has hit 50 million registered players and 400,000 concurrent dancers.Frackin’ WILD! [...]

[...] Advanced Member Registered: 2/09/06 Posts: 19 I found this number interesting.http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/02/09/audition-hits-400000-concurrent-in-china [...]

[...] Audition hits 50 million registered users. Huge! Raph points out that the peak concurrency, that is, the number of users simultaneoulsy online, hit 400,000. Compare that that to an MMO like Eve, which has a concurrency record of 15,000 users in September 2005. It’s a different world, it really is. [...]

[...] Raph says that Audition, Korea’s massively multiplayer dancing game, has hit 50 million registered players and 400,000 concurrent dancers.Frackin’ WILD! [...]

[...] The Korean virtual asset online game, Free Style  is reportedly  hitting 20 million  subscribers and 300K  concurrent users in China.  Raph Koster discusses the dance game Audition hitting 50 million subscribers and 400K concurrent users.  [...]

[...] Korean Online Dance Game Audition Hits 400,000 concurrent users, 50 Million Registered Users A Korean casual online dance game, Audition, has hit an impressive 400,000 concurrent users with 50 Million total registered users in China. It is an excellent example of the growing category of “virtual asset games” that are free to play, but you pay for “stuff”. This category is particularly popular in Asia, but has not really been explored in the US. The game is mostly “skill-based” – basically, a player enters a series of L, R, U, D arrow keys based on a pattern sent by the server (discovered and described at Raph Koster’s web site). This game seems a perfect target for cheating – after all, the “buttons” can easily be read automatically and the timing element is also a great candidate for attack. [Shameless Plug] I do like the concept and have been fiddling with some ways to protect against attack online as well as support peer-to-peer virtual assets. [End Shameless Plug] It does open an interesting game genre that might do well in the West. Continue reading “Korean Online Dance Game Audition Hits 400,000 concurrent users, 50 Million Registered Users” Posted by SecurePlay at 12:12 (Page 1 of 1, totalling 1 entries) [...]

[...] “Audition”, another Korean MMO I pointed out earlier, hits 400,000 peak concurrent users in China [...]

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