9Dragons

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Roblox

9Dragons is a martial arts-themed MMORPG first released in 2007. While it has a long history and has shifted between several publishers, its age and niche appeal suggest a small but loyal player base. RedFox Games currently operates it, but there is little presence in modern MMO discussions and traffic. Most older MMOs of this type retain a few hundred active users daily unless they have had a major resurgence, which 9Dragons has not.

Roblox is a massively popular sandbox platform, released in 2006 but continually updated and widely adopted by younger audiences globally. It consistently reports tens of millions of monthly active users, with peak daily actives usually around 5–10% of monthly users. Recent filings and reports indicate Roblox has over 60 million daily active users, but this covers global user logins across many devices and experiences. Adjusting conservatively for reporting and engagement variance, daily actives typically exceed 50 million worldwide, but simultaneous users generally peak in the hundreds of thousands to low millions. As a platform with persistent worlds, it fits the broader MMO definition.