Fun missions, quirky emotes, and customizable superhero hideouts seem to have carved out a comfortable space in the MMO gaming world: Marvel's Super Hero Squad Online announced today that it's reached one million registered users.
SHSO, which launched just back in April, has been a big hit with the younger crowd (and presumably with parents) by offering up free and easily accessible gameplay as well as a focus on a kid-friendly environment. Jay Minn, vice president of Gazillion's Amazing Society, is predictably happy with the number and promises to keep the updates coming: "We'll keep adding new content and characters all the time, it's truly wonderful to see the game alive with over a million registered players having fun brawling, battling, exploring and making super heroic friends!"
[Source: Gazillion press release]
Reader Comments (11)
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 2:11PM aaradun said
stop calling it player, it's account they probably have 1/10th the actual player if they lucky
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 2:16PM Yellowdancer said
@aaradun
Well, 1 million people played the game so its accurate.
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Well, 1 million people played the game so its accurate.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 2:54PM SnarlingWolf said
@Yellowdancer
It actually doesn't mean that 1 million people played it at all. People can make duplicate accounts (often times from making one forgetting about it and making another one the next time they visit). People can make accounts and never play.
The problem with the "registered users" number is it actually represents nothing at all. It doesn't represent how many people have played, how many people do play, how many people have spent money. It is an utterly useless statistic that companies like to throw around since it looks big.
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It actually doesn't mean that 1 million people played it at all. People can make duplicate accounts (often times from making one forgetting about it and making another one the next time they visit). People can make accounts and never play.
The problem with the "registered users" number is it actually represents nothing at all. It doesn't represent how many people have played, how many people do play, how many people have spent money. It is an utterly useless statistic that companies like to throw around since it looks big.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 2:28PM aaradun said
how many of those are actual duplicate accounts.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 4:51PM Amlin said
It's a fun little game, my little nephew liked it but didn't keep his attention for long.
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 5:10PM pcgneurotic said
When will they un-lock it for those outside the US, UK and western Europe? It's ridiculous that my region was fine for beta testing, but now I'm region-locked for living in Central Europe. Pffffffff, bad show Gazillion, bad show. X(
Posted: Dec 2nd 2011 8:04PM Dblade said
yeah, these announcements don't matter any more. Concurrent players or nothing.
Posted: Dec 3rd 2011 1:08PM jimr9999us said
Heh, the game looks super cute. A good time to be a kid.







