DDI - 8000 subscribers and counting - When will it stop?

[fanboy2000]

I know a lot of D&D players I know refuse to discuss D&D on the internet. They don't like other people's opinions on how to play or how the game works.

Those people are clearly smarter than I am.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I know a lot of D&D players I know refuse to discuss D&D on the internet. They don't like other people's opinions on how to play or how the game works.

I wish I had their willpower.

 

[gribble]

Plus, I really do think the Magic population outnumbers the D&D population significantly. All of the most active threads on the forums are ALL Magic related.

That just speaks to the activity of the threads... a very very noisy/chatty posters can easily disguise a small community by this metric. Just because Magic is talked about more (or at least more often) online, it doesn't necessarily follow that the online community is bigger.

Maybe I'm in a weird location, but Magic is way smaller than D&D (and in fact pretty much most other games) at my FLGS. I think there's maybe one box of starter decks on the counter or in a display case... there are more D&D power card decks than magic decks for sale!

Of course that also doesn't mean that the community is smaller. I guess we just don't have enough in the way of hard facts to judge! Par for the course really...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I wouldn't be surprised to find regional differences in those games' relative popularity.

I lived in Austin when M:tG was first released, and that game sold like hotcakes. The 2 of the 3 stores I frequented couldn't keep it in stock more than a couple of weeks after a given release.

One, however, always managed to have some in stock only a few days after running out.

It turns out he knew a store on the West Coast that simply couldn't move the stuff...but that store's owner kept buying it because he just knew it would be big. And when stock just sat there gathering dust, he'd just sell it to the guy in Austin.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

You are only made part of the D&D Insider group once you log in and register with the new forum system. There are 174,000 people who have joined the Wizards forums, but nowhere near that many have logged in and registered with the new community in the past week.

Wasn't there a number of 6,000,000 D&D (any edition) players world-wide? I suppose the DDI "capture" read for the message board is higher than the message board capture rate for those 6,000,000 players.

 

[Vorput]

Wasn't there a number of 6,000,000 D&D (any edition) players world-wide? I suppose the DDI "capture" read for the message board is higher than the message board capture rate for those 6,000,000 players.

Are there really 6 million people who play D&D? That number surprises me.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Its possible.

It's a bit more probable that its the number of people who have played it for a given length of time (say, 1 year) in their lifetime.

 

[Minicol]

Personally, I am not quite sure what to think. 8k (and possibly quite a bit more) does sound like a decent start, although not wildly impressive.

In my opinion, that looks awfully low. Especially given the objectives set forth for it.

Now, IMO too, that means strictly nothing as such, as it could go either way. After all, the 8K are possibly all DMs, meaning that in truth some 32-64 K people truly access it.

 

[Dannager]

In my opinion, that looks awfully low. Especially given the objectives set forth for it.

Now, IMO too, that means strictly nothing as such, as it could go either way. After all, the 8K are possibly all DMs, meaning that in truth some 32-64 K people truly access it.

Or, as has been pointed out in this thread, the 8,000 registered on the Wizards.com boards in the past week represents a small minority of D&D Insider subscribers, and the actual number is (in all likelihood) in the multiple tens of thousands.

 

[Echohawk]

The count for the DDI group just hit 10,000. That's a climb of about 2,000 in the last week.