2.5 million *CHARACTERS* were seen online WoW in the past 30 days. This includes trial accounts and accounts with multiple characters and DM’s multiple characters.

I think each account that subscribes would have at least 3 characters maybe 4. On MMO’s I played on a main, secondary possibly more secondary characters PLUS mules/crafter characters and most people had the same set up.
No one subscribes and play only 1 character.

2.5 million characters in the past 30 days – trial accounts with multi chars – bots, divide by the average number of multiple characters per account is around 250k actual different People who subscribe.

Blizzard is full of it. They DO NOT have even close to 2 million subscribers not to mention 11 million, give me a break. You can see the Characters seen in past 30 days online. Use some common sense.

I simply do not get the developers to discuss the technical dimension. Find out what is doable and what not. Usually I can use the groups network and infrastructure, to get contacts etc. but the developers market seems to be either a forum of very young guys, trying to get into the industry, or “older” developers leaving the industry and join IT departments.

Besides the whole western market seems to be concentrated in the US.

Thanks Gordon, noted if you are willing to spend your time in Munich : )

I look forward to TOR not because of how it’s like WoW, but because of how it’s different. I think that SWG had a lot of good systems that WoW could have implemented to be an even better game. So did Ultima Online. As blockbuster as WoW is, it’s not the be-all, end-all of MMOs. It’s got a LOT going for it. But it doesn’t have everything. And with people getting used to F2P games as well as $15 subscriptions, there are a lot of players out there who are willing to experiment with some new MMO techniques (thanks to WoW opening up their eyes to the genre).