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

[Jack99]

Should be easy to find. Just need one reliable person to stand forward and confirm that they used to be an Insider but are no more. Then they should check their Wizbook account and tell us if they are in the group or not.

I am guessing it counts current members only /shrug

 

[Scribble]

Should be easy to find. Just need one reliable person to stand forward and confirm that they used to be an Insider but are no more. Then they should check their Wizbook account and tell us if they are in the group or not.

I am guessing it counts current members only /shrug

That's not really what I meant though... Not asking if it removes you after you drop out, but if it adds you if you were an insider before, but are not a current subscriber at the time you sign up for the community.

Shrug- either way we know that over 14000 people have at some point paid for a DDI account (of some type.)

 

[DireWereTeddy]

I dropped my DDI subscription back around the end of June. However, I just checked my WotC Community login and I am a member of the D&D Insider group, so it apparently counts anyone who has subscribed.

 

[doctorhook]

For what it's worth, the first time I signed in to the new WotC site, my profile didn't show the D&DI Subscriber icon, even though I've had an active account since last October. The next time I signed in, the icon was there. I remember noticing this because I was annoyed that others had the icon and I didn't, the first time around.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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.

We, too, are a Mac household.

However, we have some Dells and an IBM laptop due to a contract requirement of some professional software for my Dad's medical practice, so we fall outside that 2% "exclusive" range as well.

Even though we could run their proprietary software on our Macs, the company won't do any service or upgrades unless we use PCs to run the stuff.

However, I have to say that our Macs tend to linger a bit, too.

I had an Apple IIe for 6 years, and a Mac IIci (bought new in 1989, right before I went to law school) for 8. My current Mac G4 is due for replacement, but I've been using it since at least 2002 or 03.

(And, for the record, that IIci was only retired from use a few years ago: we were using it for some desktop publishing in my Dad's practice...work now being done by some G3 iMacs.)

 

[Morrus]

Heh. 8000 subscribers? I dream about 8000 subscribers.

/sitting here on 156.

 

[fanboy2000]

Technically, my Mac is a PC.

 

[CapnZapp]

More interestingly, how large a percentage of D&D gamers do you believe are DDI subscribers?

1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?

And how large a percentage of ENWorld visitors have CSAs?

1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?

 

[wedgeski]

Technically, my Mac is a PC.

/OT

I think you should inform Apple of that fact, because their advertising suggests they think otherwise.

 

[catsclaw227]

Heh. 8000 subscribers? I dream about 8000 subscribers.

/sitting here on 156.

Wait -- does this mean that there are only 156 paid EnWorld community subscribers? I assumed it was much higher considering how many accounts there are.