Unique IP accounts with over 50 hours online time which logged on since Classic launched on September 5th:
Trial - 6
Classic - 241
Gold - 27
Ex Gold - 5
This is despite the fact there have been 1174 unique IP address trials, that never accessed an alternate upgraded account, which have logged on in this time.
Some other factors to take into consideration are that many Classic subscription accounts will have had more than 50 hours online time prior to launch, but on the other hand, the Gold accounts include people who are either staff on an iPhone server (free Gold), or use it to work on their own dev server. Some of these trials also obtained a lot of hours before launch.
While there are multiple ways this data can be interpreted, and it would be wrong to put all blame on trial restrictions, if they weren't so outrageously harsh and therefore trials weren't prohibited from playing events, even a small 30/1174 trials playing 50+ hours in 7 weeks would make a big difference in fortune to a server like Classic, UN or Val.
10-25-2012, 11:19 PM
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