You forgot that their are about 4 weeks in a month.
Assuming a worker is employed @ 15$/hr and There are 2 GM/s / realm (1 horde / 1 alliance(just guessing))
At 24/7 coverage (24 hrs/day )*(7days a week)* (4 weeks / month)= (roughly)672 subscribers * 2 GMs = 1344 subscribers just to pay their monthly support salaries / realm.
Still a drop in the bucket though. Bandwidth costs are probably much higher. I think that their monthly input from subscriptions is only about 10% more than their monthly costs. (A 10% profit is pretty high though) You still have to realize that their is constant content creation, continuous bandwidth, server, and maintenence issues.
Anyone know what the profit margin is? I don't think it's as huge as people make it out to be. Profitable enough to grow the business thats for shure!
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
"Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792.
"The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:391
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
Where did you go to school? Input Validation is the very 1st & last thing that was taught in my CS program. Hell, I went to publick skewl and I got that....
Your absolutley right though, not enough people prioritize it.
I am not a hardcore rider. However, I am a big man. about 6' 250. Cheap bikes crumble under my weight/power. I totally agree with you except I still think if your going with any suspension & significant gearing you should be in the 500 range. Will last alot longer than a huffer too!
I see your point, but you proved it yourself when you talk of simulator games. It is long known that simulator graphics suck. You have to draw a much further distance, it takes a great deal of power to pruduce a realistic looking terain. It's just not there yet. Infact sims are far more graphically intensive than most "TWITCH" games you describe. Not to mention that on a sim, it's likely you'll have more monitors to output data to.
P.S. I was just proving a point, I like to play the Price/performance ratio game. I feel that I need to make the best of about $1500 when I build a computer for my self.
Yeah I don't know... I had a walmart (o.k. It was a K-mart...) bike. I got it because I was so excited to have a full suspension bike for $150 USD. It lasted me about 100 miles. The last 30 were hell. The chain bounced around alot, the casette was trash. I rode it hard for a week, then as I could for a month, then it went to hell and I swore off bikes.
Fast forward a few years. I put $650 USD into a decent hard tail on recomendation from a friend, and WOW. My life is better. Yeah I have to worry about parts getting stolen, but My workplace has bicycle closets, and I park it in a private garage the only other two places I ride. It's faster, lighter, fits better, and far more durable than anything from Walmart. I am getting road slicks put on today, and i can't wait to see how much better it rides on the street.
No offense, a bike is a bike if you don't have one. Back when I had my K-mart bike I didn't have the money to put into a nice bike. If you do have the $ it will pay off upgrading to a nice bike. Believe me, you get what you pay for when it comes to quality bicycles. YMMV (pun intended)
One caveat... Once you ride a 5-600 dollar bike, you want to see what a $1000 dollar bike rides like...
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For those of you who don't know.
What we've got here is a wild Dragonweezel. They grow to be about 500 lbs. Look at those wings all wide and scaly. Watch as I hold up one of his four sharp claws. That was tough, he's big bugger. His head is weasel shaped, but he manages to blow the same powerful dragon breath. His body is slender, and very flexible, covered in fur. Let's pet him a bit. Good dragonweezel. Look at this long pointed reptillian tail protruding from his bottom. It helps to ballance him in flight, and the pointy barb at the end can be used defensivly. Watch how he stalks his prey. Sometimes a dragonweezel will skewer his prey with a stick and then cook him to about 500 degrees before ingesting their chard remains. Crikey that poor politician didn't stand a chance. Did you see how he quickly winked at us before he reached in with a single claw and devoured him whole? You should not approach one unless your true of heart.
Someone who does a lot of driving on a daily basis is far less likely to screw up behind the wheel while intoxicated than someone who doesn't. It's simply instinct. Not that I condone drunk driving.
Look up the legend of stalvin on thottbot. It's like a 7 or 8 tier quest that has a bit of story to it. There are many quests like that but the cumulative rewards are mediocre at best.
You are young in your knowledge of games... It is apparent in your typing. (Don't worry, I am young in my knowledge of english, and I am a white american born and raised here) The reason you want high frame rates is so that when the action gets intense, the frame rates don't dip below a certain level. For instance: If your in say Q4 and your playing by your self on level x. You expect the Framerate to be about 100 or so, (way higher than the necesary 40-60 right?) but what happens when your online with the distance maxed out, and you have a ton of people on screen firing their graphicly intense weapons? You don't see 100 fps anymore. Not even close. Because normally you have 3-5 people on screen, now you have 20, and those 20 are all firing some weapon that has massive special effects.
Lets try WoW. In PVE when your just leveling or doing the occasional 5 man, you have a few things going on here and there. Your frame rate stays at 50-60 When you hit 60 and start farming MC all the sudden you have massive effects, AOE spells, 40 differant people with 40 differant visual effects running, BOOM(sound of machine grinding to hault) FPS at 19 (thats if you have SMOKIN specs)
I agree that frame rate junkys tend to concentrate on the fps in game x with hardware Y vs hardware Z. But do understand that there is a reason for it.
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You forgot that their are about 4 weeks in a month.
/day )*(7days a week)* (4 weeks / month)= (roughly)672 subscribers * 2 GMs = 1344 subscribers just to pay their monthly support salaries / realm.
Assuming a worker is employed @ 15$/hr
and There are 2 GM/s / realm (1 horde / 1 alliance(just guessing))
At 24/7 coverage
(24 hrs
Still a drop in the bucket though. Bandwidth costs are probably much higher. I think that their monthly input from subscriptions is only about 10% more than their monthly costs. (A 10% profit is pretty high though) You still have to realize that their is constant content creation, continuous bandwidth, server, and maintenence issues.
Anyone know what the profit margin is? I don't think it's as huge as people make it out to be.
Profitable enough to grow the business thats for shure!
The only thing I have to reply to you with is that Playing 1st person Shooters made me (who never shot a gun before) become a dead eye w/ a 40 40.
TRUE STORY
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
"Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792.
"The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:391
"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
for large values of 2
I haven't heard that analogy used in quite a while
Limewire is the last company who should be suing XXXAA.
If only Itunes would join suit....
thank you , I am only 29! I was wondering if I was getting old.
Although, my 10 year HS reunion is coming up very quickly!
BLOTTO BOX?
I was severly interested in seeing how that might work....
Proof of concept only of course.
Wtf...@)($%%
Dropped carrier...
Ohh L.O.R.D. I never did get to kill that dragon.. but I remember dabbling in the mystical....
Where did you go to school?
Input Validation is the very 1st & last thing that was taught in my CS program.
Hell, I went to publick skewl and I got that....
Your absolutley right though, not enough people prioritize it.
ouch... If I am in an intense 40 man, I just change my settings to basically have 0 special efects.
I have a decent spec'd system too. geforce 7900gt, x2 4400, 2gig ram, bad ass powersupply, and I stil drop into the low 20's
Until you raid. THen your hosed. Might as well have an intel chipset for graphix
I am not a hardcore rider. However, I am a big man. about 6' 250. Cheap bikes crumble under my weight/power. I totally agree with you except I still think if your going with any suspension & significant gearing you should be in the 500 range. Will last alot longer than a huffer too!
I see your point, but you proved it yourself when you talk of simulator games. It is long known that simulator graphics suck. You have to draw a much further distance, it takes a great deal of power to pruduce a realistic looking terain. It's just not there yet. Infact sims are far more graphically intensive than most "TWITCH" games you describe. Not to mention that on a sim, it's likely you'll have more monitors to output data to.
P.S. I was just proving a point, I like to play the Price/performance ratio game. I feel that I need to make the best of about $1500 when I build a computer for my self.
Yeah I don't know... I had a walmart (o.k. It was a K-mart...) bike. I got it because I was so excited to have a full suspension bike for $150 USD. It lasted me about 100 miles. The last 30 were hell. The chain bounced around alot, the casette was trash. I rode it hard for a week, then as I could for a month, then it went to hell and I swore off bikes.
Fast forward a few years. I put $650 USD into a decent hard tail on recomendation from a friend, and WOW. My life is better. Yeah I have to worry about parts getting stolen, but My workplace has bicycle closets, and I park it in a private garage the only other two places I ride. It's faster, lighter, fits better, and far more durable than anything from Walmart. I am getting road slicks put on today, and i can't wait to see how much better it rides on the street.
No offense, a bike is a bike if you don't have one. Back when I had my K-mart bike I didn't have the money to put into a nice bike. If you do have the $ it will pay off upgrading to a nice bike. Believe me, you get what you pay for when it comes to quality bicycles. YMMV (pun intended)
One caveat... Once you ride a 5-600 dollar bike, you want to see what a $1000 dollar bike rides like...
For those of you who don't know.
What we've got here is a wild Dragonweezel. They grow to be about 500 lbs. Look at those wings all wide and scaly. Watch as I hold up one of his four sharp claws. That was tough, he's big bugger. His head is weasel shaped, but he manages to blow the same powerful dragon breath. His body is slender, and very flexible, covered in fur. Let's pet him a bit. Good dragonweezel. Look at this long pointed reptillian tail protruding from his bottom. It helps to ballance him in flight, and the pointy barb at the end can be used defensivly. Watch how he stalks his prey. Sometimes a dragonweezel will skewer his prey with a stick and then cook him to about 500 degrees before ingesting their chard remains. Crikey that poor politician didn't stand a chance. Did you see how he quickly winked at us before he reached in with a single claw and devoured him whole? You should not approach one unless your true of heart.
Thank you Steve.
Rest In Peace..
-DW
Thats not a stereotype, thats the way it is.
Ma
Actually, thats very true
Someone who does a lot of driving on a daily basis is far less likely to screw up behind the wheel while intoxicated than someone who doesn't. It's simply instinct. Not that I condone drunk driving.
Just wanted to say I LOVE your sig. Wheres it from?
Lol I thought I was alone in the universe.
Thank you for giving my life meaning!
Oh yeah, it's Tuesday not Monday!
You BUY CDs...
That is so weird...
I agree with your comment EXCEPT that a bicycle costs $300 if you want a good bicycle you need to spend well over 500.
Look up the legend of stalvin on thottbot. It's like a 7 or 8 tier quest that has a bit of story to it. There are many quests like that but the cumulative rewards are mediocre at best.
You are young in your knowledge of games... It is apparent in your typing. (Don't worry, I am young in my knowledge of english, and I am a white american born and raised here) The reason you want high frame rates is so that when the action gets intense, the frame rates don't dip below a certain level. For instance: If your in say Q4 and your playing by your self on level x. You expect the Framerate to be about 100 or so, (way higher than the necesary 40-60 right?) but what happens when your online with the distance maxed out, and you have a ton of people on screen firing their graphicly intense weapons? You don't see 100 fps anymore. Not even close. Because normally you have 3-5 people on screen, now you have 20, and those 20 are all firing some weapon that has massive special effects.
Lets try WoW. In PVE when your just leveling or doing the occasional 5 man, you have a few things going on here and there. Your frame rate stays at 50-60 When you hit 60 and start farming MC all the sudden you have massive effects, AOE spells, 40 differant people with 40 differant visual effects running, BOOM(sound of machine grinding to hault) FPS at 19 (thats if you have SMOKIN specs)
I agree that frame rate junkys tend to concentrate on the fps in game x with hardware Y vs hardware Z. But do understand that there is a reason for it.
I say play at a Resolution you can afford.
I actually have the opposite feeling. I am a male who thinks that women are by far more superior than men. Girls naturally have an edge.