EverQuest

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Scum

EverQuest is a classic MMORPG released in 1999. It pioneered the genre and still maintains a loyal niche following due to regular updates from Daybreak Game Company and nostalgia-driven servers. As an aging title, its active player base is modest compared to modern MMOs, but it remains one of the longer-lasting examples of the genre, estimated at several thousand daily active players.

Scum is a multiplayer open-world survival game developed by Gamepires and originally entered Early Access in 2018. While it is not a full MMO, it supports servers with dozens of players (up to 64 per server). The game maintains a niche but dedicated following and is frequently updated; however, it has never reached large mainstream status. Based on long-term trends of similar survival games, its daily active player base is estimated to be in the low thousands, and this estimate would hold unless a major relaunch or expansion revitalized the player base.