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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 4932883" data-attributes="member: 48965">But that's not what's being discussed (the arbitrary value of a success to WotC)... what's being discussed is the number of subscribers... Someone whose subscription expires and isn't renewed the day after they login and are &quot;counted&quot; isn't really valid as a subscriber at that point.&nbsp;This is pure conjecture on your part, especially since at this point with WotC still allowing one to download all previous issues of Dragon and Dungeon... it's probably more economically feasible to subscribe for one moth every 5 to 6 months, download everything and wait again.&nbsp; I would actually argue that being a yearly subscriber is kind of the worst deal right now unless one just wants to be the first to read stuff.&nbsp;Wrong because the numbers or even percentage of 1 year vs. 3 month vs. 1 month subscriptions aren't known.&nbsp; Heck it's even worse since one can purchase a subscription at any time within a month and so the end date can be anytime within a month.&nbsp; That means there is no way to tell what the error is in the count.&nbsp;&nbsp;Again wrong, first as far as the DDI being successful in general and recouping the money spent on it and continuing to be spent on it... a yearly subscription counts for way more towards that than someone who decided to subscribe for the assassin material this month and won't be signing up again until sometime in February or March. &nbsp;Second, even now it can't be used in anyway to determine the DDI's base without knowing certain things about the counting mechanism and how it works... and even then it may be wildly inaccurate.&nbsp; You seem to want to make it a positive thing... but it's not really useful at this point and time for any type of conclusions to be drawn from the available numbers... positive or negative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 4932883, member: 48965"] But that's not what's being discussed (the arbitrary value of a success to WotC)... what's being discussed is the number of subscribers... Someone whose subscription expires and isn't renewed the day after they login and are "counted" isn't really valid as a subscriber at that point. This is pure conjecture on your part, especially since at this point with WotC still allowing one to download all previous issues of Dragon and Dungeon... it's probably more economically feasible to subscribe for one moth every 5 to 6 months, download everything and wait again. I would actually argue that being a yearly subscriber is kind of the worst deal right now unless one just wants to be the first to read stuff. Wrong because the numbers or even percentage of 1 year vs. 3 month vs. 1 month subscriptions aren't known. Heck it's even worse since one can purchase a subscription at any time within a month and so the end date can be anytime within a month. That means there is no way to tell what the error is in the count. Again wrong, first as far as the DDI being successful in general and recouping the money spent on it and continuing to be spent on it... a yearly subscription counts for way more towards that than someone who decided to subscribe for the assassin material this month and won't be signing up again until sometime in February or March. Second, even now it can't be used in anyway to determine the DDI's base without knowing certain things about the counting mechanism and how it works... and even then it may be wildly inaccurate. You seem to want to make it a positive thing... but it's not really useful at this point and time for any type of conclusions to be drawn from the available numbers... positive or negative. [/QUOTE]

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