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Should we stop counting how many millions of people have created accounts on Free Realms? They've just announced that 3 million is their latest milestone, which they have hit in under 7 weeks since launch. Another celebratory set of free gifts -- this one oriented towards the in-game pets -- is being dropped in users' accounts that must be claimed by June 19th.

Guinness World Records also recognized them during E3 last week for conducting a concert live and in a virtual space simultaneously. You'd think someone would have done this before.

I haven't played Free Realms since just after I picked up my 2 million member gift. I've still found their upsell pitch to be very aggressive compared to that of Runes of Magic, which opts to let your compatriots kind of sell the paid services for them by parading around in-game with them. Given that nobody else in my household plays Free Realms yet I'm much more likely to put money into Runes of Magic, which I have been playing quite a bit lately while my PlayStation 3 sits untouched at a repair shop.

Seen on Massively.