Jack99
Adventurer
Yep, the sky is the limit!
Seems like they must be making some good money from this, which makes me happy. I like D&D and would like WotC to do well, so that they can keep on making great stuff for us.
DDI - 8000 subscribers and counting - When will it stop?
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Yep, the sky is the limit!
Seems like they must be making some good money from this, which makes me happy. I like D&D and would like WotC to do well, so that they can keep on making great stuff for us.
Scribble
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I think pretty much the only thing we can derive from this "data" is that as far as the D&D Community is concerned, as of today 14,406 people who have signed up for a membership to the D&D Community have at some point paid money to be a part of the DDI.
We do not know the extent of their membership.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
And to all those "I have a Mac, why didn't WOTC make it for a Mac" folks...
Out comes this news (thanks to PWD for this):
85% of mac users also own a PC
Link
NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive.
The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD's less direct assessment:
At first glance, these stats almost seem wrong, but when you start think about it, they make sense: The survey polled "households," which, on account of grandma's Compaq or your roommate's gaming PC, clobbers the exclusivity figure. (I live in what any reasonable person would call a "Mac household"—three people who use Macs almost exclusively—but that little Acer netbook sitting on the table means we're not.)
Plus, PCs are cheap and they linger, and Macs, being pricier, tend to find their way into richer households, where more than one computer is almost a given. That, combined the fact that most Macs sold are laptops, and therefore a little more likely to be a supplemental computer, makes the 2% figure look a little less crazy, but still, 2%? Fanboys, you're slacking.
Out comes this news (thanks to PWD for this):
85% of mac users also own a PC
Link
NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive.
The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD's less direct assessment:
At first glance, these stats almost seem wrong, but when you start think about it, they make sense: The survey polled "households," which, on account of grandma's Compaq or your roommate's gaming PC, clobbers the exclusivity figure. (I live in what any reasonable person would call a "Mac household"—three people who use Macs almost exclusively—but that little Acer netbook sitting on the table means we're not.)
Plus, PCs are cheap and they linger, and Macs, being pricier, tend to find their way into richer households, where more than one computer is almost a given. That, combined the fact that most Macs sold are laptops, and therefore a little more likely to be a supplemental computer, makes the 2% figure look a little less crazy, but still, 2%? Fanboys, you're slacking.
Maggan
Writer for CY_BORG, Forbidden Lands and Dragonbane
Well, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
I have equal access to a bunch of PCs running Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. I still would like WotC to produce a Mac client, because I use that platform the most.
/M
darjr
I crit!
Actually, we know they had a membership in August or September or October or some combination thereof. The group went live Aug 20th. When did the community site go live?
If it wasn't live until September then the large majority of those folks had an account in at least the last two months.
Scribble
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Do we actually know that they had a (current) membership at that time?
darjr
I crit!
As far as I know you can't become a member unless you are in the DDI. As for staying in the group I'm not sure.
I actually started to go through a bunch of the members and could not find any that were not DDI. I even began to write something to pull out pseudo-random members and see if they were DDI... I gave up. I didn't find any that were not members. But that was a while ago.
Note that I did find plenty that had their profiles closed and thus I couldn't tell if they were DDI members or not.
Scribble
First Post
Not having had my subscription lapse yet (and not planning to) I'm wondering what happens when you DO cease subscribing to the DDI?
Do you still maintain your logon info so that you can log on and pay for a new subscription?
If so, does the Community group consider anyone with an account (current or not) a part of the DDI?
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
How can we get these people to get a CS account here?
