Sony announced today that its casual MMO, Free Realms, had registered over 9 million users. That’s up from the 8 million the company announced at the beginning of February. as a bit of history, Free Realms registered over 1 million users in its first 17 days, 2 million within its first month, and over 5 million by September.

“With Free Realms, we’ve been able to reflect the needs and wants of our players by keenly listening to their suggestions and feedback,” said John Smedley, president of SOE. “We believe the persistent exercise of capturing in-game research inside Free Realms has been a huge contributing factor as to why we’ve attracted over nine million players in less than a year. It truly helps us give our players a game where they can do and be whatever they want.”

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