WiiStation360 said:
Sqrl said:
ssj12 said:
cwbys21 said:
When WoW hits 11 or 12 million after Litch King comes out this guy will really have to eat his words. |
was going to say something like this |
The thing is WoW numbers, like all MMOs, are horribly inflated. They love to count canceled accounts, banned accounts, inactive accounts, mule accounts, etc... Its technically true that they've had that many subscriptions but its not true that that many people actively play the game which is the number that produces revenue for them, not their LTD accounts. This used to piss me off as an EQ player too, UO, EQ, EQ2, WoW, etc.. they all do it. You won't see numbers go down until its obvious that they can't be going up because they pad it the best they can. And just to state this, I'm not trying to take anything from WoW, it is tremendously successful and probably will be for quite some time. |
This does happen a lot, but the Wow numbers are actually current subscribers: World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition
World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees’ territories are defined along the same rules. |
EQ had something similar, yet when EQ2 came out they showed no decline in subscriptions a few months later despite the game being damn near vacant....now I can accept that a lot of folks didn't outright cancel their EQ1 accounts and were just playing EQ2..but I know a lot of people did cancel them as well.
I was part of MMO gaming for the first 8 years of its popularity so you'll forgive me if I am a bit skeptical of the companies that host them, as a group they are notoriously full of crap when it comes to this stuff.
Again I actually like WoW, but I'm not buying the 10m subscribers...call me a synic /shrug.
