... to 35,000 subs (from a peak of just over 100,000). I'm not even sure you can buy the game still, and at around ten bucks (? total guess) a month, that's still a revenue of $350,000 which is hardly a kick in the teeth.
This MMOG business is a curious business. Blizzard, who are supposedly still at 1.5m but I'm guessing they're more like 1.6-7, must be pulling in something like .. $24 million dollars a MONTH.
*faints*
The <120K subs chart. (via Robotwisdom)
24 million dollars? Lemmee guess, those are ALL to cover up the cost of servers and employee, otherwise they could drop the monthly fee, nu? I still fail to understand why do people spend their money on those. (Oh, and either $24 million, or 24 million dollars, not both... :D)
Posted by: Erez | June 01, 2005 at 13:37
Oh yes. Thank you. Must not post before breakfast.
:)
Posted by: Alice | June 01, 2005 at 13:57
You're welcome, and for me it usually depends on the quality of the aforementioned breakfast, and on rare occasions, also on the nature of last night's dinner. I usually fake it with a lot of coffee.
Posted by: Erez | June 01, 2005 at 14:29