WoW passes 11 million Subs...

[Ickalanda]

.jayderyu said:

Ickalanda said:
Sweet. I'm one of those 11 million.

And by the way, I'd like to bring up one very important issue, the 11 million isn't actually game sales, that number is probably closer to 20 million or even past it. The 11 million is active accounts, so accounts that still have money on them. WoW is an even much more successful game that some people are willing to admit, still growing after 4 years even with there being a large number of people with no longer active accounts. I'm sure a lot of growth with the release of the expansion will actually be people reactivating accounts rather than people actually buying the game for the first time.

 Nope. That's why Blizzad specificly sais "subscribers". A subscriber is not the same as an active account. It is by far more boastful to say 11 milion Active Accounts. "Subscribers" can be anyone who has registered an account key. How many "subscribers" are there at VGCharts. The count includes bans and people who stopped visiting ages ago. There account still exists. Which makes them a "subscriber". Blizzard is boasting "subscribers" thus this does not equal active accounts. So in reallity the active users are lower.

 

I know it's a bit of shock, but is called marketing. It's a standard practice to sell your better qaulites and down play weaknesess. Important never mention them. Not even Blizzard is above this. It's a small thing, but it's common.

subscribers != active paying accounts

 

No, it's number of active subscribers.  In fact you only CAN be an active subscriber.

 

A subscription is a payed amount of time that you have something, sort of like a magazine subscription.

Now, I was subscribed to PC Gamer magazine about 3 years ago but no longer am.  If I PC gamer was to give a list of their subscribers now, I would not be on that list.  Do you understand?

 

Also Everquest 2 always had their number of subscribers listed and that number has actually gone down, so by your logic that would mean that a large majority of everyone who owned everquest 2 has now gone to the store and returned their box and cd of the game and that has been recorded.

 

A subscriber can only be an active user and Blizzard only lists those numbers.

 

Also there is a website called WoW Census or something like that that lists the number of users who have logged on in each individual day and the number is often very close to the number that Blizzard lists (usually around 1-3 million less depending on the day, not everyone logs on every day).  And really, any 4 year old game that requires a subscription is going to have huge amounts of players who no longer play.  Half of my friends who have played at some point since the beginning no longer play anymore, but a lot of them are coming back for the expansion.