Update, 10/23: Woke up realizing this: If VRChat's reported 10 million monthly active users are about 2.5 million people from Japan, which has a total population about 124 million... about 2 percent of the Japanese are VRChat users.
Last I checked in August, Japan-based traffic to VRChat's website was second only to the US, and nearly 20% of the total, compared to 40% of traffic from the US (according to SimilarWeb). Japanese usage has grown quite a bit from that:
In September, Japan-based traffic jumped to 27%. (Above.) I.E. , it's safe to assume roughly 1 in 4 people playing VRChat are Japanese nationals.
This is a surprising usage trend for a US-based virtual world. Typically, most usage is from the US followed by the UK and various European nations. According to SimilarWeb, for example, Japan traffic to SecondLife.com is currently not even in the top five by country, which in September, was held by traffic from the US, UK, Germany, Russia, and France. And we know Second Life's Japanese community is highly creative and active -- it's why we translate key NWN articles into Japanese.
So why VRChat's overwhelming popularity in Japan?
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Second Life Usage Now Higher Than Its 2007 Hype Level Period?
Interesting comment from Amanda Dallin, reflecting on SL's recently reported "pandemic boost":
This sounds right. 2007 saw a lot more churn due to massively promoted events like a cross-over experience for the television show CSI, mostly from people who were unable to install the program or get past the orientation. However, the definition of a monthly active user has definitely changed since 2007 -- back then, Linden Lab would mainly refer to "Total Residents", i.e. anyone who signed up for an account, whether or not they even installed the program and went in-world.
The definition that hasn't changed is the amount of concurrent users, and that is indisputably much larger now than it was in 2007:
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Posted on Monday, June 22, 2020 at 02:50 PM in Comment of the Week, DEMOGRAPHICS, Economics of SL | Permalink | Comments (3)
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