Free Realms Reaches 8 Million Players

In addition to being nominated for the 2010 Best New Social/Online Game award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco March 11th, Free Realms, the massively multi-player online game from Sony Online Entertainment announced that it has reached 8 million registered users. Although it is difficult to say how many of these registrations equal active or paying users on the game, it does indicate a slight decline in the monthly average, down to 500,000 per month from 900,000 after its initial launch period.

Nonetheless, the game has proven very popular and continues to role out innovative social networking strategies, like its new ConnecDing competition that allows players to win rewards for all “fellow players,” among others.