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Also DDo offers free 7 day trial.

http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=404&colid=9563

That is awesome if just for the picture in the article.

I would also point out that if the sales numbers were great they would just release them. There is no point in holding back positive sales numbers, only negative ones.

Pretty funneh article.

I don't want to be part of an internet where we're a credible source.

Well it makes a change from everyone quoting Bruce's charts.

I'm off to find a columbo avatar, latest version of the forum account numbers from the other thread below.

Created in the first eight weeks of DDO's release we have:-

1st Week = 11,133
2nd Week =  3,384
3rd Week =  2,496
4th Week =  1,835
5th Week =  1,263
6th Week =  1,372
7th Week =  1,016
8th Week =    721
Total = 23220

Links below just incase anyone wants to double check this information. 

First DDO user to register, thur 23rf Feb (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=42)
last user to register, wed 1st march. End of 1st week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=11174)
First user, thur 2nd March (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=11175)
Last user, wed 8th March.  End of 2nd week (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=14558)
First user, thur 9th March (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=14559)
Last user, wed 15th March.  End of 3rd week (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=17054)
First user, thur 16th March (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=17055)
Last user, wed 22nd March.  End of 4th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=18889)
First user, thur 23rd March (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=18890)
Last user, wed 29th March.  End of 5th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=20152)
First user, thur 30th March (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=20153)
Last user, wed 5th April.  End of 6th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=21524)
First user, thur 6th April (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=21525)
Last user, wed 12th April.  End of 7th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=22540)
First user, thur 13th April (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=22541)
Last user, wed 19th April.  End of 8th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=23261)

I wonder if free trial people get to register for the forums.

EDIT - I was wrong,  7 day free trials users can make forum accounts, guess that means more DDO forum accounts.

no offense, but what's the point of this?  Just don't subscribe.

Giving a big name license to Turbine is like giving a dick to a nun.  They don't know what to do with it, and even if they did they'd do it badly.

You're wrong about nuns.

Are we talking about a nun who receives a dick, like, in a jar of formaldehyde?  Or a nun who gets a dick while it's still attached to a guy?  Or maybe a nun who is given a dick through the miracle of modern surgery?

Figure it out, intarweb detectives!

Its two lesbian nuns and one has a strap on! I win teh interweb! :-D

That made no sense. You don't win anything.

A young novice nun soon realised that the absence of sex in the convent was a problem. She confessed to Mother Superior that it was unhealthy and she was restless.

"Comfort yourself with a candle," she was advised.

"I've tried that," she said, "but you get tired of the same thing wick in and wick out."

Please don't become Fatbabies.

Jesus Wept.  That coupled with this :

 "You know who does the free trial move? Ones that have been out so long that they have stagnated and their subscriber numbers are either not moving, or falling at a "You're going to have to punch us out, Goose! I can't reach the handle!" rate."


I Have Laughed Today.

Anyone else think Arthur deserves the grief title "Internet Detective"?

Yes.

Done.

Thanks.... (I think).

Below is the latest, created in the first nine weeks of DDO's release we have:-

1st Week = 11,133
2nd Week =  3,384
3rd Week =  2,496
4th Week =  1,835
5th Week =  1,263
6th Week =  1,372
7th Week =  1,016
8th Week =    721
9th Week =    713
Total = 23933

This latest 9th week includes the new 7 day trial users who have the ability to create forum accounts.

Soln, what's the point?  They don't want to release any subscription or sales numbers but designed their forums with sequential forum ids, I just think that's funny.

First DDO user to register, thur 23rf Feb (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=42)
Last user, wed 26th April.  End of 9th week. (http://www.ddo.com/forums/member.php?u=23974)

I wonder how long it will take them to use the AOL method of having a supply of CD's in retail locations, post offices and the like to gain subs?

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Good stuff...hah