No -- that's not a typo in the title. We didn't get attacked by a swarm of ninjas who knocked us out on the "0" button or anything like that. Nexon has announced that Dungeon Fighter Online has hit a worldwide total of 197 million registered players since launching in South Korea in 2005.Too bad the rest of the stats provided don't pass the common sense check:
Nexon had a few other impressive numbers to sling about as well. Up to this point, players have killed more than 1.6 billion monsters, invaded over 25 million dungeons and engaged in PvP arena combat over 28 million times.For those of you breaking out your calculator watches, let me do the math for you.
With 197 million players and 1.6 billion monsters killed, that means each player has killed an average of only 8 monsters, over almost 4.5 years.
Every time a player logs in, they spawn their own unique dungeon, meaning that 173 million players are registered that have never played the game.
Lastly, every person that registers for a Nexon account is registered for all of Nexon's games, inlcuding Dungeon Figher Online, whether they actually play or not.
It is horribly apparent the numbers don't match up and Nexon either
a) screwed up the numbers
b) stooped to a new low of public relations misinformation in the MMO numbers game
I'll let my educated readers figure out which.
