[MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)

[rayzam]

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From: "Koster, Raph" <rkoster at verant.com>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 10:22 PM
Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Interesting EQ rant (very long quote)


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> As far as retention--well, I don't know what figures have been
> announced, but I was floored (and frankly incredulous) when I first
> heard the stats on how many users have ever quit EQ, how many of the
> initial adopters are still playing, etc. Despite all the impressions
> that are out there, I can tell you that basically, EQ doesn't lose
> players. I don't mean on a month-to-month basis. I mean, basically
> ever. The percentage of TOTAL users who have ever quit the game is
> tiny. Now, how many of these folks are paying but not playing, who
> knows. :) >

There's a simple reason why this has also been the case however, and
how it skews this stat. When you want to quit EQ, you don't quit and
let the character go away, you sell it off on Ebay to someone else. So
the characters persist from the beginning, but who's behind it may be
changing.  Granted, I doubt that matters for the bottom line $$.
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