World of Tanks tops its own Guinness World Record

@Mikx What? EVE has around 50k at peak times, far below the 250k tanks got.

@Raikulxox Ah, I thought it was 350-400k, but it does stand to reason that would be total subscribers. Well, good for ftp.

@slickie

Yes, something like 75% of the WoT players are on the Russian service.

It is still pretty impressive, though I imagine if one of the Chinese MMOs used single server technology like this they'd blow the record away. D&F Online in China regularly gets over two million CCU when you add all the servers together.

@bobfish

Can you imagine? 2 million active connections...on one server?!?

I cannot even begin to...

...no, that's not true. I sorta can imagine it.

But it involves lots of fire and sparks and overheating and probably a call to the fire department!

@Space Cobra

I think the character database would implode before the hardware does :)

There is probably some smart way of using multiple databases for it, but I'm not technically minded enough to know such things.

@darkilya

Just out of curiosity, I have never played EVE thou have been tempted to check it out, but dont have the download capacity to download it (10gb a month capacity). How often do space battles with hundreds of ships hapen? From what I have heard it has prety harsh repercusions if your ship is destroyed, so I would imagine that this sort of thing happens very little.

I am not trolling by the way (so get you finger away from the down vote button:P I honestly wish to know how often these battles occur.

@darkilya So its not a persistent environment, like 250,000 people battling on a single wow server, its a bunch of people playing SC2, TF2, CoD or LoL matches?

If that's true, Guinness truly blows. Get back to important need to know stuff like the world's longest fingernails, biggest eclair or longest recorded belch.

@darkilya I figured it was something like this.

@avaloner not that common - you need to join a big enough corporation (a guild in EVE terms) to field such numbers. Outside of intense war periods, it's not a daily or even weekly event. But I did not enjoy these big battles that much, really. As a new player, you'll have much greater fun flying with a couple dozen small ships, and it's much easier to organize. If done properly, you can take out much larger, more expensive ships with only minimal losses this way.

But I mostly mentioned EVE here as to give scale of what is possible in a pureblood MMO, what does the first M stand for. I could give Lineage 2 as an example as well with it weekly sieges seeing hundreds of players fighting for each castle.

As for losses, - yeah you lose everything. But, if your side wins the battlefield, some remnants of your spaceship is still there for your friends to pick up along with remnants of the opponents. Losing side lose everything though. But many corporations do reimbrush ships lost by their members in these battles.

@Mikx Yes, once in a match, you can only interact with other 29 players. There is XP and some inventory management, but that's not really different from many modern shooters.

They did add some territory control later, decided by matches, but it sounds just like base control in MAG.

@darkilya

I totally agree with you. In fact I'm puzzled why WoT's is on Massively at all.

@avaloner I don't think NCsoft ever called GW1 an MMO.

@avaloner Perhaps... But at the very least the common areas for GW were indeed common, and could have dramatically more people in them. You could interact with them in the same manner as the instances (which you cannot in WoT) trade with them (which you cannot in WoT), etc.

I'm actually sympathetic to the argument that GW wasn't an MMO, but it's still way, WAY more of an MMO than World of Tanks.