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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:49:39 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>  This week's patch has made a change to accounts, where unsubbed
>  accounts now have the same access as a "starter" account - very
>  limited, restricted to lvl 20 (higher lvl existing characters are
>  locked), no trading, no whispering people who don't already have you
>  on friends etc, but it's better than zero access, and if you want to
>  mess around on a lowbie, you now can. 

Hm, not sure this is good news or dangerous news :-)

But thanks for sharing anyway!

Cheers
Urbin
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Den 27-02-2015 kl. 15:49 skrev Catriona R:

> I have a feeling more people here are unsubbed than currently
> subscribing, so thought this might be useful to some ;-)

Maybe a little OT...  I dont know how reliable those graphs are (see 
link).  But going from 6.8m subs to +10m subs in 6(?) months?

<http://www.statista.com/statistics/276601/number-of-world-of-warcraft-subscribers-by-quarter/>

Well.  I've heard about 25m subs back in the BC and LK days.  That is 
definitely not true if those stats shows an almost true snapshot of the 
amount of subs in every quarter. :)

-- 
Peter T.

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On 28 Feb 2015 08:22:39 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:49:39 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>>  This week's patch has made a change to accounts, where unsubbed
>>  accounts now have the same access as a "starter" account - very
>>  limited, restricted to lvl 20 (higher lvl existing characters are
>>  locked), no trading, no whispering people who don't already have you
>>  on friends etc, but it's better than zero access, and if you want to
>>  mess around on a lowbie, you now can. 
>
>Hm, not sure this is good news or dangerous news :-)
>
>But thanks for sharing anyway!

Hehe :-) Can't imagine there's much to do at lvl 20 that'd get your
completism instinct to kick in too much, at least :-D

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:10:48 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>Den 27-02-2015 kl. 15:49 skrev Catriona R:
>
>> I have a feeling more people here are unsubbed than currently
>> subscribing, so thought this might be useful to some ;-)
>
>Maybe a little OT...  I dont know how reliable those graphs are (see 
>link).  But going from 6.8m subs to +10m subs in 6(?) months?
>
><http://www.statista.com/statistics/276601/number-of-world-of-warcraft-subscribers-by-quarter/>
>
>Well.  I've heard about 25m subs back in the BC and LK days.  That is 
>definitely not true if those stats shows an almost true snapshot of the 
>amount of subs in every quarter. :)

Those numbers seem fairly accurate by all I've heard, don't believe
it's ever gone much over 12m, 25m seems a major exaggeration to me! I
was surprised at the huge jump in subs for WoD, but I'm more
interested to see the next set of figures, sadly I think it'll be a
lot lower, as I think I know more people who stopped playing the last
couple of months than who still are playing :-(

Den 28-02-2015 kl. 12:20 skrev Catriona R:

> Those numbers seem fairly accurate by all I've heard, don't believe
> it's ever gone much over 12m, 25m seems a major exaggeration to me! I
> was surprised at the huge jump in subs for WoD, but I'm more
> interested to see the next set of figures, sadly I think it'll be a
> lot lower, as I think I know more people who stopped playing the last
> couple of months than who still are playing :-(

I found a few more sites with almost identical statistics.  Prolly the 
same source. :)  And of course there is a rise in the subs around an exp 
release.  But Q1 and especially Q2 will be interesting reading.

-- 
Peter T.

<https://www.elitedangerous.com/>

Den 28-02-2015 kl. 15:42 skrev Peter T.:

> I found a few more sites with almost identical statistics.  Prolly the
> same source. :)  And of course there is a rise in the subs around an exp
> release.  But Q1 and especially Q2 will be interesting reading.

If I say Wild Star... :)

<http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4749-Introducing-the-WoW-Token>

-- 
Peter T.

<https://www.elitedangerous.com/>

On 6/03/2015 11:25 PM, Peter T. wrote:
> Den 28-02-2015 kl. 15:42 skrev Peter T.:
>
>> I found a few more sites with almost identical statistics.  Prolly the
>> same source. :)  And of course there is a rise in the subs around an exp
>> release.  But Q1 and especially Q2 will be interesting reading.
>
> If I say Wild Star... :)
>
> <http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/4749-Introducing-the-WoW-Token>

  I tried the unsubbed access, pretty much nothing to do, can't even buy 
off AH and can't use mailbox. Can't access bankers, most are over 20 
since I run them up with rested xp and heirlooms for fun.

  Okay ,so 15-40k gold for 30 days =  $15  by the gold sites
this would well work for me, buy a years sub. It isn't like the gold is 
earning interest in a pension plan when not playing.

  It depends of they want to get rid of gold sellers, which they don't 
based on complete lack of reaction, leave for a year and they are still 
botting the same old places.
  So, give the sellers some leeway and price it at 80k, plus a bit of a 
gold rush maybe 100k at the newly inflated price .
Could still work, a couple of days AH for 30 days.

  I may give it a go when it drops at that since game time = 50% playing 
ah for me , game time pays for game time. If nothing else I could buy 6 
months and burn up some gold doing nothing.

  I keep going to resub, but then start shuddering at the thought of 
grinding and having to relearn, watch youtube cats instead. I haven't 
played wow since early december and until I got a cold last week hadn't 
even played so much as a game of solitaire since new year.

I really think the sub limits could be not so much the $ price or the 
graphics but a large part the data load for the game. A lot of people 
who may play just don't have the installation and update quota.
A lot do, but a hell of a lot don't.
Log on to check the unsubbed access, 2.8G download, and thats after a 
couple of months off.  A lot who may play just don't have the quota to 
look at an installation this month, or next month, or the next.
   They can stream but if they google it just says 35G.
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/world-of-warcraft-system-requirements
   Someone with a 15GB broadband isn't even going to look

https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/mobile-broadband/plans
https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/home-broadband/satellite
https://www.telstra.com.au/broadband/home-broadband/nbn/nbn-bundles
I know ..Australian Fraudband, Telstra is definitely in the 'charges 
like a wounded bull' class but thats where the potential new subs live.
   In this city house I have optic unlimited data, $150pm, people visit 
from the country, use my wifi, download everything they can. Obviously I 
and they don't use satellite to do wow updates just to see what the new 
unsubbed access looks like.