For the 5th Anniversary of EQ, Sony releases some horrifying statistics. Among them:
- EverQuest averages about 250,000 new subscribers every year. Currently, there are more than 420,000 people playing the game.
- At peak times, more than 100,000 people around the globe will be playing EverQuest simultaneously.
- More than 1500 servers run the world of EverQuest, which is the equivalency of one of the world's top 100 supercomputers. More than 18 miles of wire and cable connect all these boxes together
- Total play time for all current players in the game equals more than 184,000 years.
184,000 years. Over the last 5 years, 2.5 million people have spent 184,000 years submerged in this modern-day computer game entrapment. And there are still 420,000 people waiting to escape.
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