niperwiper Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Considering as how I see around 150-250k playing daily (2 today), and taking maybe half of those as P2P. I would estimate around 500-700K paying accounts, since obviously not everyone is logged on at the same time. But I'm pulling that number well out of my ass. What all do you think it is? As a brief aside, assuming a rate of $5.50 USD per mo. with new subscription rates and old, 600k paying accounts would bring in $3.3m a month, $39.6m per year. Shiny, huh? :rolleyes: I'll feel a bit silly if they've posted a look at their actual subscriber count, but I can't remember ever seeing it. So go ahead and rape my numbers for me. Thanks! Truthscape Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'd venture to say that at least 3/4 of the current players online are subscribers. F2P isn't bad, but it's not P2P. Once you're a member it's hard to not be one, especially at the cheap cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essiw Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'd venture to say that at least 3/4 of the current players online are subscribers. F2P isn't bad, but it's not P2P. Once you're a member it's hard to not be one, especially at the cheap cost.you know there are only 3k players online at this time? http://sign.tip.it/1/2/79/260/essiw.png Retired item crew I would like to be credited as essiw at the website update & corrections forum. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niperwiper Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well, that's only because it's naptime. Truthscape Lover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
999134 Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Going by that there are roughly 0 subs atm :( Check it out, huge amount of effort has gone into this massive mod![hide=old sig][/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stingman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Considering they had 8.5 million in 2009 I read somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has gone up or at least hovered around there (Don't know if the article I read was credible though). But my guess would be more like a few million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stingman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Considering they had 8.5 million in 2009 I read somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has gone up or at least hovered around there (Don't know if the article I read was credible though). But my guess would be more like a few million. 8.5million active players. Only thing I heard about subscribers is Jagex claiming they had a million a while back. My guess is they have 800k-1.4m subscribers Ah that's what it was. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'd venture to say that at least 3/4 of the current players online are subscribers. F2P isn't bad, but it's not P2P. Once you're a member it's hard to not be one, especially at the cheap cost.you know there are only 3k players online at this time?I'm speaking in a general sense. Meaning that on any given day, there are roughly 150-250k players online. I'm basing it off of those numbers. You knew what I meant anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoRPsychotic Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 7+m a month aint bad at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukesMummy Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 it is when there making money off a game thats down for 5hours and were still paying for those 5hours., i have been p2p since around 2002-2003 lol, imagine how much i'v spent.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Stingman Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 it is when there making money off a game thats down for 5hours and were still paying for those 5hours., i have been p2p since around 2002-2003 lol, imagine how much i'v spent.. :) And considering how much time the servers have been up since 2002-2003, I'd say you have had plenty of time to play on RuneScape. I mean, this is the first time that the servers have been down for so long in what, a year? 5 hours is a few cents...Get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSxqPowerx Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 They said 1m a long time ago, but then they banned a lot of bots which dropped subs a bit...Then there was the free trade and pvp updates which dropped subs again... But then I'm sure they were going back up steadily, and another boost when they brought trade/wilderness back.Probably a bit over 1m now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSBDavid Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 750k normal players, 200k bots [software Engineer] - [Ability Bar Suggestion] - [Gaming Enthusiast] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bxpprod Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 42 [bleep] OFF HOW ARE U SO [bleep]ING LUCKY U PIECE OF [bleep]ING SHIT [bleep] [bleep] [wagon] MUNCHER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangin_Blonde Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 42 H2G2 much? Anyway, let's say 1/3 of them are members of which 1/3 are botting. 2/3 of them are f2p of which 2/3 of them are botting. Of the rest, half of them are AFK and have yet to logout, some have been DC and can't log back in, others are reading other windows and cruising Tip, and the rest are in Daemonheim. I'd say at any given time the amount of people playing regular Runescape would be... 42... D'oh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kata_Phfract__the_slayer Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Considering they had 8.5 million in 2009 I read somewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if that number has gone up or at least hovered around there (Don't know if the article I read was credible though). But my guess would be more like a few million. 8.5million active players. Only thing I heard about subscribers is Jagex claiming they had a million a while back. My guess is they have 800k-1.4m subscribersyes I remember that. May 2007. its been 4 years (nearly to the month :blink: ), so who knows.my bet is 1m - 2m.that number will probably rise. not because of humans but because of RWT. I'm a Brony and proud of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youmu Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 There are definitely over 2 million subscribers, as certain member skills in the hiscores have passed the 2m mark. My guess is about 2.5m-3m. BlogTrimmed | Master Quester | Final BossBoss pets: Bombi | Shrimpy | Ellie | Tz-Rek Jad | Karil the Bobbled | Mega Ducklings120s: Dungeoneering | Invention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blyaunte Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Jagex claimed that there were 1 million PAID memberships in May 2007 ("the Golden Age"). Indications are that their numbers have likely increased since that date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obfuscator Posted April 12, 2011 Share Posted April 12, 2011 Moved to Questionnaires, as it's a more appropriate forum. "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovecuttingyews Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 There are definitely over 2 million subscribers, as certain member skills in the hiscores have passed the 2m mark. My guess is about 2.5m-3m.Yes, but considering all of the people who were members and now are not (quit, back to F2P) I would say that estimate is too high. They said ~1M in the 'golden age' which I'll assume was 06/07. At that time they were making 27M pounds per year from members. From 08/09 they made over 36M pounds from members. From that and from what I've seen in terms of online numbers, I'll esimate 1.2M current members. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangerouslysafekid Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 As I saw a graph like a year ago about the membership-income of jagex per year, which was at 35million pounds back then, my estimate is that there are 35million pounds : 12 (months) : 4.5 (my estimate of what they would get per month/per player) ~= 800k.As that graph was before free trade + dungeoneering my estimate is that there are currently about 1million p2p/month -------------------Proud Pure F2P------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwreeTak Posted April 20, 2011 Share Posted April 20, 2011 About one and a half million perhaps? I think there are more than most people think. Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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