When a company wants to increase its revenue they will initiate a ban. The pay method of the individual is never banned. The company will no longer have to provided the service that the end user payed up front for. It is then predictable that a high percentage of users that were banned will immediately repurchase it.
600,000 Gold accounts are worth how much?
Arbitray:
600,000 x $27.50 USD (3 months) = $16,500,000.00
AVG user is on day 10 of 90 day prepaid Gold Service
Ban-Hammer is dropped
M$ just made 14,850,000 pure profit by not having to honor remaining service
Follow week after the Ban-Hammer 50% of users repurchase Gold accounts $8,250,000.00 of new cash surge
If M$ or any company for that matter wanted to curtail cheaters and modders, they would ban your Credit Card (pay method).
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OS: Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor @ 3.3ghz
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800mhz
Chromium 9 alpha: 9.0.563.0 (63660) Ubuntu 10.04
FireFox 4 beta: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101020 Firefox-4.0/4.0b8pre
Opera 11 alpha: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.6.37 Version/11.00 - build 1029
Sunspider Benchmark(Lower is Better):
214.6ms - Opera
246.6ms - Chromium
252.8ms - Firefox
V8 Benchmark(Higher is Better):
Score: 5499 - Chromium
Score: 4695 - Opera
Score: 3374 - Firefox
Dromaeo JavaScript Test Benchmark(Higher is Better):
590.07runs/s (Total) - Chromium
399.95runs/s (Total) - Opera
399.25runs/s (Total) - Firefox
To be fair at time of writing this there was 7 newer nightly builds for Chromium. Regards to Firefox, is their JagerMonkey engine based on webkit?
When a company wants to increase its revenue they will initiate a ban. The pay method of the individual is never banned. The company will no longer have to provided the service that the end user payed up front for. It is then predictable that a high percentage of users that were banned will immediately repurchase it.
600,000 Gold accounts are worth how much?
Arbitray:
600,000 x $27.50 USD (3 months) = $16,500,000.00
AVG user is on day 10 of 90 day prepaid Gold Service
Ban-Hammer is dropped
M$ just made 14,850,000 pure profit by not having to honor remaining service
Follow week after the Ban-Hammer 50% of users repurchase Gold accounts $8,250,000.00 of new cash surge
If M$ or any company for that matter wanted to curtail cheaters and modders, they would ban your Credit Card (pay method).