WYROM TALKS STATS: PM Wyrom shares some fascinating GemStone stats and data points that he is able to share from the many reports at his fingertips. We thought it was very interesting and thought some of you might want to be sure to read it:
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PM Wyrom
Wyrom Shares Data Points and Stats
on 28 December 2022 1:52 AM
from the Official GemStoneIV Discord Forums
in Mechanics CategoryYeah, I have a lot of reports I can generate. They aren’t as easy to decipher sometimes though. I can go into some of this, I have in various channels and even on the play.net forums over the years.
We have thousands of paid subs. I can’t go into details here, this is one of the few examples of what’s under the NDA. Of that number, 40% of our population is single account users. From there, 33% use 2 accounts, and 10% use 3 accounts. After that it’s just a lot of varying numbers. In 2021, we had a few people with a ton of accounts, but we haven’t seen that in awhile.
These numbers do not include F2P or anyone on a promo. During promotions, you can add between 100 to 700 reactivation. Our biggest limited-time promo was GS2020SPRING with which was 1,055 reactivations. We still have 16% of those players still with us. Retention is usually around 25% per promo that drops to about 4% a year.
We broke 1,000 CCU (concurrent users) in 2020 a few times, and we were averaging about 800 during the lockdowns. We’re sitting at roughly 400 to 600 on average right now, with events spiking up to over 600. This is up from 250 in 2015 being the average on. Our DAU (daily active users) tend to be about 66% of our paid subs.
Some milestones that we hit recently are:
* We hit subscription counts as high as they were around the GS4 conversion.
* We grew the game roughly 40% in the last 8 years.
* We tripled Platinum subscriptions.
* We tripled Shattered subscriptions compared to DragonRealm’s Fallen (which is what Shattered is based on).
* November 2021, we broke a record for how many Premium users we had.
F2P users are roughly 12% of the population at the time of me typing this up. Average session time is 2.73 hours, but the median is right around an hour a day.
I use terms like median just because our average can be skewed quite heavily from all of our top numbers. It’s just the safest way to present the data to you. Even game data, the “hardcore” player is just so much over a casual player.
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