[2] Registered users reached 25 million by April 2005,[3] with 576,000 peak concurrent players on 198 game servers, which was considered the fastest-growing online game in China at the time.
[4] The game uses the same engine as Westward Journey II, albeit with a distinctively different graphical style.
Together with Westward Journey II, it is one of the highest-grossing video games of all time, having earned an estimated $6.5 billion in lifetime revenue as of 2019 and having 400 million users as of 2015.
[7] Total registered users of Fantasy Westward Journey had reached 310 million as of 2015.
[8] A mobile version of the game was released for the Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems in 2015.