As reported on Gigaom, Habbo Hotel is soon to surpass World of Warcraft in unique monthly visitors. A Habbo executive VP explains that Habbo will soon surpass the 10-million figure, compared with the most recent count at WoW of 9.5 million unique users per month.
But this story must be taken with a least a few grains of salt, for the following reasons:
1 – Habbo is free, while WoW charges a subscription fee
2 – Measured in avatars, the numbers compare. But WoW users more often that not have more than one character under a single subscription.
3 – The only source in the article is said VP of Habbo Hotel.
This post has instigated a lively comments section from a wide-ranging group of users. Many give WoW credit for being such a profitable model, while others find the comparison between the two MMOs unrealistic. Definitely worth reading.
I’m now headed back to see if I can help crack 70,000 concurrency in SL, come join me!
Habbo suffers from a surfeit of alts, the same as SL. Users forget their pw’s, or are banned, or just want a new name to grief someone with – they sign up and make a new account. These numbers have nothing to do with any type of concurrency, which have been falling of late.
Are those website traffic you’re speaking of?
Cause that’s pointless when WOW is not an website.
Monthly visitors. Which I assume means logging on.
70k? lol you and what bot army?!;)