The Two Towers

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Roblox

The Two Towers is a long-running MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) based on Tolkien's world, launched in 1994. As a text-based adventure, it has a dedicated but extremely niche audience, typical for legacy MUDs. While it is still operational, current daily player activity is low, likely between 20 and 100 on average. The game's persistent world and capacity for large simultaneous user interaction qualifies it as an MMO by legacy standards.

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.