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MMO ARPU numbers
Apr 10th, 2014 at 5:28pm
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http://www.superdataresearch.com/blog/mmo-arpu/

My first reaction was "wtf - that's chump change"... then I multiplied times active users .... ohhhhhhhhh, THAT's how they stay profitable.
  
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Reply #1 - Apr 10th, 2014 at 5:34pm
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a buck 32 cents times the millions of leagues players.....heh.......
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 10th, 2014 at 5:38pm
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inorite - I didn't do the research on the games, but GW2 is impressive, considering there's no sub.

That means there's a shitton of people who buy... weapon skins.  I don't know if that's an encouraging commentary on humans or not.  Huh
  
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Reply #3 - Apr 10th, 2014 at 7:38pm
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I wish people in DDO would be more satisfied with buying weapon skins, then bs things like XP stones and astral sharts could go bye bye.
  
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kierg10 wrote on Apr 10th, 2014 at 7:38pm:
I wish people in DDO would be more satisfied with buying weapon skins, then bs things like XP stones and astral sharts could go bye bye.


ddo just does not have the player base to be supported by costmetics.
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 11th, 2014 at 2:16am
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yup, that's how thing works...

DDO ARPU is probably higher than what is in the article ( somewhere around $5 I guess ).
multiply it by 20K ( you know The Wild Assed Number )  that's $100K a month...
that's $1.2M a year...

Now a small change in the ARPU will have a huge impact on the final revenue.
  
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Reply #6 - Apr 11th, 2014 at 4:17am
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mystafyi wrote on Apr 10th, 2014 at 8:17pm:
ddo just does not have the player base to be supported by costmetics.


They were never allowed to. The system we got was one size fits all (in a game based on a system that had the most customisable characters ever). We instead got XP and other rubbish like it that now the game gets built around.

Don't worry though, the DDO store is for convenience only.
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 11th, 2014 at 6:36am
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karatekid wrote on Apr 10th, 2014 at 5:38pm:
inorite - I didn't do the research on the games, but GW2 is impressive, considering there's no sub.

That means there's a shitton of people who buy... weapon skins.  I don't know if that's an encouraging commentary on humans or not.  Huh


Well, the thing that enrages me more...if there is such a bunch of people throwing money away, why cannot I invent some way of getting some, if I consider myself intelligent, instead of working my ass off.
Infuriating.
  
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Well, the thing that enrages me more...if there is such a bunch of people throwing money away, why cannot I invent some way of getting some, if I consider myself intelligent, instead of working my ass off.
Infuriating.



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Reply #9 - Apr 11th, 2014 at 8:08am
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mystafyi wrote on Apr 10th, 2014 at 8:17pm:
ddo just does not have the player base to be supported by costmetics.


Judging by number of people I see in game with various store pets I disagree.
  
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Reply #10 - Apr 12th, 2014 at 3:01am
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Well, the thing that enrages me more...if there is such a bunch of people throwing money away, why cannot I invent some way of getting some, if I consider myself intelligent, instead of working my ass off.
Infuriating.


You spend too much time worrying about what other people have.
  
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Reply #11 - Apr 12th, 2014 at 7:43am
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Booooga wrote on Apr 11th, 2014 at 8:08am:
Judging by number of people I see in game with various store pets I disagree.


You know, as a VIP you have 500 TP to waste on stuff each month...

And I'm not even talking of all those European Accounts that have ( had ) 5K TP ( on top if VIP ) to waste on stuff.
Some of us didn't have to cater for altaholism ( and buy char slots )... After having spent it on the important things you start to spend it on the unimportant ones... Beside Pets are cute... and if you're a Wolf Druid you can almost be your own wolfpack with your pet and the cosmetic one.
  
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Reply #12 - Apr 12th, 2014 at 10:55am
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Booooga wrote on Apr 11th, 2014 at 8:08am:
Judging by number of people I see in game with various store pets I disagree.


If you were correct, then the ddostore would not consist of gated or p2w items
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Reply #13 - Apr 12th, 2014 at 10:05pm
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mystafyi wrote on Apr 10th, 2014 at 8:17pm:
ddo just does not have the player base to be supported by costmetics.


True...
  
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