Final Fantasy XI Online

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Scum

Final Fantasy XI Online is a classic MMORPG released in 2002 by Square Enix. Despite its age, it still maintains a small but dedicated player base due to its historical legacy and regular minor updates. Most modern MMOs of this era have much reduced populations, but FFXI's loyal fanbase helps it retain several thousand daily 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.