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2016 hasn’t been easy for OpenSim

This past year has been a troubling one for OpenSim, with slowing growth rates and increasing concerns that OpenSim will be sidelined by advances in virtual reality platforms.

Active users numbers went up, but at a slower rate than in any of the previous years, and a steep decline from the record-high growth rates that we saw last year.

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Active user numbers and growth rates. (Hypergrid Business data.)

Registered users were up only slightly, with a lower growth rate than in any of the previous years.

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Registered user numbers and growth rates. (Hypergrid Business data.)

And total land area on OpenSim’s public grids actually decreased this year.

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Region numbers and growth rates. (Hypergrid Business data.)

Some grids did better than others, however.

The top ten fastest-growing grids were AllCity [4], Sinful Grid [5], DigiWorldz [6], Metropolis [7], Genesis MetaVerse [8], Kitely [9], Lost Paradise [10], DreamNation [11], OSgrid [12]and Exo-Life [13].

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Active user numbers and year-over-year increase. (Hypergrid Business data.)

AllCity was the biggest gainer, with a net increase of 1,077 active users since this time last year. AllCity also ranked the highest in this year’s grid survey [15].

InWorldz [16] had the biggest drop in active users. It went from 6489 this time last year to 5947 this month, a fall of 542 active users. Logicamp [17] lost 439 after a serious server failure this fall, and Great Canadian Grid [18] lost 410 active users after it capped its growth.

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Registered user numbers and year-over-year increase. (Hypergrid Business

Kitely brought in the highest number of new registered users, at 24,630, with InWorldz a closest second at 23,398.