Quote Originally Posted by TheDearLeader View Post
Note: Paying Customers =/= Forumites. These numbers are independent of one another.

Free Players, and I mean *purely* Free Players, never a dime spent on the game, should not count. Why? Because they aren't the financial backing for this game being what it is.
I couldn't agree more.

That's why the 'but if I don't post how much I hate it, then the devs will think I SUPPORT IT!" arguments are bunk.

I'm sure Turbine has a very good idea, much better than people speculating here, how many players spend $$, on what, and what they spend their time playing.