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[branmakmuffin]

A feeling. Same reason than you may suspect it is lower.

I happen to know for a fact that the number of subscribers is less than zero.

[Turial]

I happen to know for a fact that the number of subscribers is less than zero.

Less than zero you say?

The number of people posting in this thread seems to be against that fact.

[branmakmuffin]

Less than zero you say?

The number of people posting in this thread seems to be against that fact.

There are in fact no people posting in this thread.

These are not the droids you're looking for.

[cdbd3rd]

Less than zero you say?

.....

Aye, Less Than Zero

[Shal]

I honestly dont see another mmo grabbing me the way this game has.

mee either. there will be no other for me. the only reason i gave it a shot was because its "Dungeons & Dragons." if they came out with "Top Secret," i might give it a shot, but i wont hold my breath. lol.

just keep in mind one more thing ... those of you that say they are hurting turbine because you "love the game so much" ... just keep in mind that "i hurt you because i love you," is somthing a wife beater would say to his abused wife. lol. and no, im not implying that you guys are wife beaters.

[Grond]

Edit: Wrong thread

[Hafeal]

*swipes hand in the air *

There is no one playing this game

*brings hand back in the air*

You will go be a productive member of society now

[Uska]

I'd be a little suspicious of that number.

Not sure how you're coming up with 100,000 + playing DDO.

sameway you and your buddy game up with 25k just pull a number out of the air.

[Uska]

DDO hasnt had 100000 players in like 2 years. We are at about 25K

there you go again. I dont think its 100k but I think thats closer to the truth then your baloney.

[Uska]

again we are at about 25K now

wrong as always.

[Uska]

Lol, By that data the numbers never even reached 100,000. They were at 90,000 shotly after release, and dropped by half in a year.

So, like I said; Not sure where you came up with 100,000+

If you belive anything on that site I have some land I would like to sell you it has a large white house with secure fencing around it in the DC area.

[Oreg]

lol 100,000 subscribers. That is hilarious. We can sit here all day and debate the numbers and get ****ed off at each other but I guarantee you the real number or subscribers (not characters, not acounts) is less than 25K. Ghallanda has no more than 4,000 active players and I am betting the other servers are more or less the same.

[GlassCannon]

lol 100,000 subscribers. That is hilarious. We can sit here all day and debate the numbers and get ****ed off at each other but I guarantee you the real number or subscribers (not characters, not acounts) is less than 25K. Ghallanda has no more than 4,000 active players and I am betting the other servers are more or less the same.

You seem to be neglecting all the folks that play once or twice a week for about 3-5 hours.

100k would be around 70k casual subscribers, 27k moderate players, and 3k powergamers. Of course, you'd only see the powergamers on 24/7, as they have no life whatsoever outside gaming, or hate life outside gaming and really really want to forget it(cheaper than hard liquor, and less addictive! Not to mention, easy on the liver!). The rest of us are only on here and there, now and then. We're those folks that get frustrated when it takes 45 minutes to form a quest group, then drop because we're out of time.

[Oreg]

You seem to be neglecting all the folks that play once or twice a week for about 3-5 hours.

100k would be around 70k casual subscribers, 27k moderate players, and 3k powergamers. Of course, you'd only see the powergamers on 24/7, as they have no life whatsoever outside gaming, or hate life outside gaming and really really want to forget it(cheaper than hard liquor, and less addictive! Not to mention, easy on the liver!). The rest of us are only on here and there, now and then. We're those folks that get frustrated when it takes 45 minutes to form a quest group, then drop because we're out of time.

I am not neglecting anyone. If you for a moment think that we are in the 100,000 neighborhood and not the 25,000 neighborhood then ....well I don't know what to say to that. At our peak we may have come close to 100,000 - we are far far from those days.

[Oreg]

And if you think there are 100,000 subscribers, which amounts to almost $18 million in annual revenues at $14.99/ mo, then you should be seriously ticked off that they have a staff of about 10-15 people (20 max) working for DDO and not producing timely communication and updates. That means they are pocketing some serious cash....

Bottom line is they aren't. So your 100,000 number has to be off. Way off.

[bandyman1]

If you belive anything on that site I have some land I would like to sell you it has a large white house with secure fencing around it in the DC area.

You DO realize that the poster who said that we were around 100k posted that link as his proof, NOT me, right????

Seriously Uska; Did you get dropped on your head hard, and repeatedly as a child?

[Strakeln]

http://www.mmogchart.com/charts/

It's not an exact science but it's close... Numbers for 2009 have not been published yet. It does look like the last numbers were close to 50,000 Active Subscriptions but that was in 2007.

Uh... looking at your data...

The last entry for DDO was in 2007. And that data point shows 45,000 subscribers.

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart3.html

edit: I'm making no claims, just pointing out that you're reading your data incorrectly

[Dark_Helmet]

We tried to get statistics over a year and 1/2 ago.

At that time, it was averaging 300 people online (when the system would kick you off for inactivity). Using the casual player threshold (2 hours per day / 3 days per week), we came up with about 8400 players per server.

Now, even with the system not kicking people off, the average is about 150 players online. Across 5 servers, that leads me to believe they have less than 25K now.


There has been a lot of turn over.

as for forums, supposedly, forum names are reserved at subscription (or so a dev indicated).

There are currently about 270,000 forum names - including guests. (I believe Sporkfire was the first as the Community Relation Manager and poor Gelatinous Cube was the third created after Samera but I digress).

Since the start of the year, 27,000 accounts were created. With names like sdfs3543 and sdfds343 , a lot of them can probably be attributed to plat farmers and free demo accounts (amazingly a lot of them have the same birth date as well!)


With typical MMO turnover (and the ability to just come back and re-subscribe and have all your stuff there), I don't see how we could be close to 25% of this amount.