What game comes to mind when I say RPG

[Khuutra]

dtewi said:

Khuutra said:

No, I wouldn't, not outside of gaming circles.

The last installbase numbers for active subscriptions I remember was 11 million people playing WoW back at the end of 2008. I don't know how many are playing now.

So we can't determine which series is more popular.

Popularity has nothing to do with this discussion. That was the point of my first paragraph two posts back.

We can determine which series is more popular according to your stated standard of "what leaps to mind for the most people". It's going to be WoW. WoW has been played by more people than most games can ever aspire to. 11 million was the active subscriptions at the time, not counting those that had been dropped in the previous four years. For the time period from 2004-2010, WoW has destroyed Final Fantasy and every other RPG that isn't Pokemon (and maybe also Pokemon).