WoW's subscription numbers are vastly over-inflated by the chinese "subscriber base" , which actually generates only a small fraction of their actual profit.
The 'big fish' subscriber numbers for NA and EU have been shrinking pretty steadily over the last year, but the WoW China numbers are making the population drop seem a lot smaller than it really is.
I never understand the wow subscriber definition. Here is their 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.
If I live in China and I prepaid for 300 hours, but I stopped playing before all my time expire, am I still a subscriber? If it's purely base on their defnition I could still be called a subscriber even if I never logon in years because I quit before my time expire.
I never understand the wow subscriber definition. Here is their 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.
If I live in China and I prepaid for 300 hours, but I stopped playing before all my time expire, am I still a subscriber? If it's purely base on their defnition I could still be called a subscriber even if I never logon in years because I quit before my time expire.
The way I understand it is that the prepaid cards are the ones that you add to a account to give say 30 days of access. I would expect all China/Korea players to be listed unde rthe Internet Game Room players bit as everytime I've seen about how they play its mentioned they play in Internet Cafes.
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Yep, very true words.
So basically old news with the usual MMORPG.com guessing, weeeeeeeeeeee.
I never understand the wow subscriber definition. Here is their 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.
If I live in China and I prepaid for 300 hours, but I stopped playing before all my time expire, am I still a subscriber? If it's purely base on their defnition I could still be called a subscriber even if I never logon in years because I quit before my time expire.
The way I understand it is that the prepaid cards are the ones that you add to a account to give say 30 days of access. I would expect all China/Korea players to be listed unde rthe Internet Game Room players bit as everytime I've seen about how they play its mentioned they play in Internet Cafes.