Free Realms Looking For 100 Million Users
SOE isn’t having a very happy time. In the past few days, it’s fired a bunch of people, cancelled The Agency and delayed PlanetSide Next.
Free Realms Looking For 100 Million Users
SOE isn’t having a very happy time. In the past few days, it’s fired a bunch of people, cancelled The Agency and delayed PlanetSide Next. But it seems that there is one ray of light for the company to focus on: Free Realms.
The popular free-to-play MMO already sports 17 million users, and will be available on the PS3 this week – something which Sony hopes will significantly boost its user base.
"I think it could take five or six years," SOE boss John Smedley said to GamesIndustry.biz (via Eurogamer), "but I don't see any reason why it can't go to 100 million.”
That’s a lofty claim indeed, especially seeing as the current user base isn’t even a fifth of that. But Smedley believes Free Realms will be around for a long, long time.
"As long as we keep improving [Free Realms] and make sure it's still relevant - which we do every month with patches - means that we expect the game to have a long life. One of our other games, EverQuest, has just hit its 12th birthday, and I can definitely see Free Realms doing that."
With Final Fantasy XIV delayed indefinitely on the PS3, SOE has a bit of a monopoly going with DC Universe Online and now Free Realms. Time will tell whether this new focus will turn the company’s flagging fortunes around.
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