[MUD-Dev] [News] NCSoft + Richard Garriott

[Jake Song]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Freeman, Jeff [mailto:jfreeman at verant.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:03 AM
> To: 'mud-dev at kanga.nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] [News] NCSoft + Richard Garriott

>> On 5/18/01 at 1:22 PM Dave Kennerly wrote:
 
>>> "[NCSoft's] Lineage now has more subscribers than Ultima Online,
>>> Everquest(tm) and Asheron's Call combined."
 
> Many of Lineage's users access the game via internet cafe's, which
> pay for the game while the users do not, directly.  The number of
> subscribers is a guess based on how many accounts have been used in
> some undisclosed period of time and doesn't equate at all to the
> number of subscribers playing EQ, AC or EQ: where we know X people
> are paying $10/month each, so that's X subscribers.

I think there are people who pay multiple accounts for EQ(or UO or
AC).  So which one is number of subscibers? Number of people or number
of accounts?

> Of course, I'm not saying that Lineage is small.  I'm just saying
> that I've heard "Lineage is bigger than AC, EQ and UO combined"
> about 900 times now, and I don't believe that's quite correct.  Not
> with only 180k concurrent users.  That seems to be a much more
> accurate assessment of a game's "size" than "number of subscribers"
> for a game that doesn't have 75% of its users actually, you know,
> subscribe.

subscribe   v.intr. [from dictionary.com]

  1. To contract to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of
  a publication, for tickets to a series of events or performances, or
  for a utility service, for example.

I think the current users playing Lineage at Game Rooms completely
matches the definition of subscribe(r).

Jake

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