Wondring

[gyrene81]

I just got an email from Gaijin touting they have reached over 3 million people who registered in War Thunder. Crappy flight model/controls or not, 3,000,000 people is a crap load more than AH subscription numbers. Perhaps the majority of people do prefer to have awesome eye candy.....

ya, Scholz posted it in the oclub...

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,350507.75.html

that number is probably the overall total number of people who registered since closed beta...a good number have jumped ship.

[Fulcrum]

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just yet.

I'm one of those 3 million.  Yeah, it's an impressive number....but keep in mind the game is "free".....just about anyone will signup if something is free if only to try it out.  I'd love to see the percentage of those 3 million accounts that are "active" on a regular basis....I'm betting it would be a fairly small percentage, which I grant may still represent a larger user population than AH.  

[gyrene81]

most times when i sign in, i generally see 25-30 thousand online depending on the time...most are doing the arcade crap.

[Fulcrum]

Yeah....same here. I havent been on in weeks.  And I tried the arcade crap once....I'm still going through professional therapy trying to cope with the horror. 

25-30K is still not a huge percentage of 3,000,000. 

[Zoney]

I just got an email from Gaijin touting they have reached over 3 million people who registered in War Thunder. Crappy flight model/controls or not, 3,000,000 people is a crap load more than AH subscription numbers. Perhaps the majority of people do prefer to have awesome eye candy.....

I don't care if 100 million have signed up.  I like it here better.  Where are you playing?

[SirNuke]

I just got an email from Gaijin touting they have reached over 3 million people who registered in War Thunder. Crappy flight model/controls or not, 3,000,000 people is a crap load more than AH subscription numbers. Perhaps the majority of people do prefer to have awesome eye candy.....

don't get fooled, its 3 million free accounts

[hitech]

I have used this. 

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Talk about a blast from the past memory. I spent many hours in collage on one that looked exactly like that.

Had a room mate almost get killed after he dropped my COBAL deck for a class assignment.

HiTech

[Lusche]

You all beat me by miles...


This is the 1st one I programmed on, after my dad almost risk his marriage by spending an obscene amount of money on it:  





My first game however was written for the TRS_80 at school. It sucked, but gave me one of my very rare good marks ...

[Arlo]

Talk about a blast from the past memory. I spent many hours in collage on one that looked exactly like that.

Had a room mate almost get killed after he dropped my COBAL deck for a class assignment.

HiTech

Almost get killed or body hasn't been found yet? Guess I shoulda PMed this .... because ... you can trust me. 

[Babalonian]

Couple years ago I inherited my grandpa's oldest toolchest, mounted on the front of it is a vintage UNIVAC decal.  As he used to say: geniuses use them, but they can't fix them.

[SilverZ06]

don't get fooled, its 3 million free accounts

How many free 2 week trials do you think AH has had in that same time span? Probably less than 3000if I were to guess judging solely on names I did not recognize in the MA (thus not an accurate count by any means. Just a guess)

[Ack-Ack]

I just got an email from Gaijin touting they have reached over 3 million people who registered in War Thunder. Crappy flight model/controls or not, 3,000,000 people is a crap load more than AH subscription numbers. Perhaps the majority of people do prefer to have awesome eye candy.....

Registered users is not the same as active users and as a game that relies on a F2P business model, active numbers is the key metric which was left out of their marketing e-mail blast.

ack-ack

[Brooke]

Had a room mate almost get killed after he dropped my COBAL deck for a class assignment.

Heh!  There is a Simpson's episode where Apu shows Bart the Fortran deck he saved from his Ph.D. work (1st program to play perfect tic-tac-toe).  Bart asks "What's this for?", pulling a card out of the deck at random.  Apu sighs and dumps the whole deck into the trash.

[Brooke]

This is the 1st one I programmed on

Excellent!  I programmed on the PET and on the TRS-80.  (Gives Lusche the secret handshake.)

[olds442]

Lol I play this game on ENIAC