The numbers game

[hans1976]

Found a nice article on Terra Nova, our own Jessica is mentioned as well.
It is about the population of a world and how to read numbers, any numbers given.

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2 ... s_gam.html

[dhuberma]

Well... in the MMORPG subscription-based world, number of registered accounts is all that matters. If Dark Age of Camelot reports 400,000 subscribers (which they wouldn't, since they always kept their subscriber base numbers secret), that's 400,000 x USD10 or USD15 each month. How many of those login is irrelevant, because they're still revenue for the publisher.

Raise your hand if you still subscribe to an MMORPG you don't play much anymore.

/raises hand

[akicks]

Well... in the MMORPG subscription-based world, number of registered accounts is all that matters. If Dark Age of Camelot reports 400,000 subscribers (which they wouldn't, since they always kept their subscriber base numbers secret), that's 400,000 x USD10 or USD15 each month. How many of those login is irrelevant, because they're still revenue for the publisher.

Raise your hand if you still subscribe to an MMORPG you don't play much anymore.

/raises hand

Registered account doesn't matter because you can have an account somewhere and not be paying for it. Active accounts (which I think is what your really getting at) does however