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With the second month of serious patching and login failures I suspect the people here are a lot more competent than the DBG crew.
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I logged into each server ( prior to patch at 8pm) and found an average of 170 players on every server some more some less...a lot less. At 15.00 per account that is 2550 per server x 12 servers = 30,600 a month. That is not a healthy budget to pay for bandwidth datacenter/cloud etc. Sounds like a lot but when your talking about developers that can rack up quickly and it is helping to advance other games etc. It is an old game with a smaller and smaller operational budget. I get it, if I had to guess the whole thing has 12 to 16 months left of viability but I hope I am wrong.
I logged into each server ( prior to patch at 8pm) and found an average of 170 players on every server some more some less...a lot less. At 15.00 per account that is 2550 per server x 12 servers = 30,600 a month. That is not a healthy budget to pay for bandwidth datacenter/cloud etc. Sounds like a lot but when your talking about developers that can rack up quickly and it is helping to advance other games etc. It is an old game with a smaller and smaller operational budget. I get it, if I had to guess the whole thing has 12 to 16 months left of viability but I hope I am wrong.
Agree with the lizard. I think about 10k active subs seems more in-line with reality.That is total BS. There is no way in hell EQ is making 40 million a year as of 2015. That's impossible. That guy is a fucking idiot or a total liar.
That is like people subbing 200,000 accounts a year for the full year and buying stuff constantly in the store.
Those are EQ numbers more like for 2004 not 2015.
Doesn't that include their other games as well?I don't know... checked online for Daybreak Games financials and on this site it shows an estimated revenue or $95 million more or less. Maybe there's a lot more to EQ than we think that we know :p
Well yea, but how many games do they have that make any revenue at all?Doesn't that include their other games as well?
That is total BS. There is no way in hell EQ is making 40 million a year as of 2015. That's impossible. That guy is a fucking idiot or a total liar.
That is like people subbing 200,000 accounts a year for the full year and buying stuff constantly in the store.
Those are EQ numbers more like for 2004 not 2015.
Agree with the lizard. I think about 10k active subs seems more in-line with reality.
10k x $15 = $150,000 per month x 12 = 1,800,000 revenue not including store purchases or expansions
Overhead is probably around 1 mil to keep the lights on in a skeleton crew. EQ is probably profitable, but the numbers are pretty insignificant. No money too much of anything in the software world.
The devs probably want to make something incredible, but all of their time and energy goes into an xpac they need to rush out with a smaller and smaller team each year. Everyone knows this game has the possibility to grow if it weren't bled for the sake of other projects.