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The numbers game
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:25 am
by 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
Re: The numbers game
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:19 pm
by 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
Re: The numbers game
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:02 am
by akicks
dhuberma wrote: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
