Dune: Awakening

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Ragnarok Online

As of late August 2025, Dune: Awakening had approximately 14,000 concurrent players, reflecting a significant decline from its peak of over 189,000 concurrent players shortly after launch in June 2025. This decrease is attributed to factors such as player burnout, game design issues, and technical problems. Despite these challenges, the developers remain optimistic, citing strong player retention and a 10-year development roadmap that includes plans to explore new planets and regions within the Dune universe. ([gamesradar.com](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/mmo/dune-awakening-dev-says-player-retention-has-been-extremely-good-and-the-mmos-10-year-plan-still-has-so-much-to-pull-from-in-the-lore-well-go-to-new-planets-eventually/?utm_source=openai))

Ragnarok Online is a classic MMORPG released in 2002 by Gravity. While it was immensely popular in the 2000s, its Western audience has significantly declined due to age and competition from newer MMORPGs. It still retains a dedicated fanbase in some regions (notably Southeast Asia and private servers), but official server populations are now relatively small. A conservative estimate for current daily active players on official servers is around 10,000.