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Arcilite_I  Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Arunne posted:
Spookysheep posted:
And I see the answer is zero, just as predicted.
Also, I wonder if blizzard is still finding all the B-team comments "tiresome" 
No, but the C-Team who is handling all the development now is pretty pissed that the B-Team keeps getting all the credit!
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Quazimortal posted:
Gutter you are having some major reading issues here. The fact that canceled accounts are excluded means it doesn't matter if you can still log into the game.
You are having the issues, it clearly states , "subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee"...
English FTW.
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People just can't handle the truth.
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Zero_Washu  Posts: 290
Registered: 2001-9-28 05:17:03
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
GutterSludge posted:
The question is:
How many would have "left for Rift" had it launched during Wrath of the Lich King?
Wrath was a far better expansion that Cataclysm. The only thing Cata got right was making the old world look good and updating the quests to flow better
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
GutterSludge posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Gutter you are having some major reading issues here. The fact that canceled accounts are excluded means it doesn't matter if you can still log into the game.
You are having the issues, it clearly states , "subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee"...
English FTW.
Holy crap Gutter, did you just go stupid or something? It does not matter what it states counts as a subscriber when it specifically states that canceled accounts are EXCLUDED from the definition.
I can't dumb it down for you any more than that. If you still can't figure it out then I feel sorry for you.
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Ugh_Lancelot  Title: Ooo...bouncy!
Posts: 766
Registered: 2002-6-17 14:37:05
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Quazimortal posted:
GutterSludge posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Gutter you are having some major reading issues here. The fact that canceled accounts are excluded means it doesn't matter if you can still log into the game.
You are having the issues, it clearly states , "subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee"...
English FTW.
Holy crap Gutter, did you just go stupid or something? It does not matter what it states counts as a subscriber when it specifically states that canceled accounts are EXCLUDED from the definition.
I can't dumb it down for you any more than that. If you still can't figure it out then I feel sorry for you.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ambiguity
The answer is, both may apply and the one that will apply when Blizzard releases numbers is the one that makes them look better on paper.
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Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
What ambiguity? It looks well defined to me.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Say it with me quasi..
"Subscribers..
include...
individuals...
who...
have...
paid...
a...
subscription...
fee..."
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People just can't handle the truth.
NeMeFieD said:" ea I Ucmed for 12 days straight.."
njwCSUS posted:I'm homosexual, so really, its ongoing sexual attraction to my father, not my mother. |
Quazimortal Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Say it with me Gutter...
"The
above
definition
excludes
all
players
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cancelled
subscriptions"
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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I would side with Gutter on this one. I can call and cancel my internet account but it would still be an active account until the time I've already paid for has run out. Same thing for WoW accounts, if you paid for a block of time, you get that whole block of time, and are counted as active for that whole block of time. Otherwise, Blizz would have to give refunds to people who paid for 3 or 6 month subscriptions and then cancelled after a month. And we all know THAT ain't gonna happen. And, besides, it's not THEIR fault you paid for a block of time and are not using it. >.>
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
Subject:
"Subscriber levels have decreased faster than previous expansions," |
Yup, Gutter is right. It's not officially canceled until the paid time ends. Canceling an account isn't the only way for time to expire, hence the dual reference of 'cancel' and 'expire'.
Blizzard counts any account that you can log into and play as an active account regardless of whether or not it has a pending cancel on it. Given the opposite means you could, in theory, have more people playing than there are actually 'active accounts' (by Quazi's definition), its really the only interpretation that makes any sense at all.
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