Granted it's 5 am NST, I remember when there would be at least 35,000 on at this time of day. Numbers would only stoop down to 20k at literally two in the morning NST. Have to agree with rusty. But I also think part of the problem was their demographic: People generally freak out when they think their 8 year olds are being manipulated, eh? Which is what generated the harsh response to the "immersive advertising" which worked very, very well. (Immersive advertising is doing things like creating food items actually named "Honey Nut Cheerios", with Post then paying some money.) --Oh, and another important point. Look at their "About Us" page. There's dozens of names on that list. Dozens of full time workers means millions in salaries. And for the amount of content they produce, I honestly could mistake them for a 3 man team, if I didn't know better.
I've always thought neopets was popular... Everyone has played it at some point in their life. I keep coming back to it... Seems like I'm here to stay now, though. And for other games, what about Flash Flash Revolution? Probably one of the largest flash game communities on the internet. Members: 1,661,542, Active Members: 32,744 Mind you, since the end of 2008, it's been dying slowly... Hell, even one of the admins ditched for another site xD This is another site I kept coming back to... Currently taking a break now. Lol.
Neopets used to be even more popular back in the days. However, due to changes in Neopets (aka changes in TNT administrators) it decreased in popularity-although it is still popular today.
hmm... First I'd say you can't compare WoW and Neopets, in my opinion they are just two different pair of shoes. Other than that I think that neopets is still very popular as long as there are 20000 users online it is far from dieing out. Even though I think that "real" games like WoW just have an edge over neopets in being "an acutal game" and not something that runs in the browser.
to me neopets is pretty popular, everywhere i go and i saw the word neopets people would know what im saying and they're all like i used to play that when i was little etc..