Ebon Gate and Microtransactions

[Mogonis]

Gemstone by itself makes well over $500,000 per year on subs alone, throw in events like Duskruin and EG etc. and you get the idea.

[Tgo01]

I suppose it's possible. That's only about 2800 basic accounts, figure some of those are premium and plat and shattered. Might be a bit high but I think it's in the ballpark.

[Mogonis]

Let's suppose $500,000 is in the ballpark. He said well over that. It's a stretch.

[Steve]

Let's suppose $500,000 is in the ballpark. He said well over that. It's a stretch.

Is it? As was said, that's 2800 basic accounts. How many people have just one basic account with one character? How many people are Premium? How many have ever purchased an event ticket? A simucoin?

Hell, assuming Dreaven has zero premium accounts and every account he has is just a single character, he pays $2340 per year ALONE.

Couple that with, again, as was said, the fact that any Simutronics staff is of course working on their other properties in addition to Gemstone, all of which ALSO bring in revenue, I'd say $500,000 is a lowball estimate on Gemstone alone.

[drauz]

I seem to remember that something like half ( at least ) are premium.

[Steve]

Here ya go. This isn't going to be 100% accurate, but it's going to be close based on my experience dealing with companies on it:

http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Sim...n-301-330-0726

State of Inc:Maryland
Location Type:HQ
Revenue:$ 3,368,123
Employees:2
Facility Size:N/A

[Tgo01]

Let's suppose $500,000 is in the ballpark. He said well over that. It's a stretch.

True, I wouldn't say well over 500,000 dollars, but it's probably around there. The usual peak is what, around 400? Figure 4 times as many active accounts for a good estimate and figure they're all basic and that's about 300k a year. So yeah, I'd put the figure more at around 350k-400k.

Hell, assuming Dreaven has zero premium accounts and every account he has is just a single character, he pays $2340 per year ALONE.

Shit, maybe it is time I quit GS :O

[BLZrizz]

No need to guess, it's easy enough to ballpark.

http://www.stillfront.com/site/wp-co...ation-v1.0.pdf

Slide 13 lists Simu revenue at 4.1m Swedish Krona in Q1, which is roughly $508,000 over 3 months. Figure roughly $250k/quarter for GS4 equals $1 million in revenues/ year.

[Tgo01]

Employees:2

Holy shit.

[Tgo01]

No need to guess, it's easy enough to ballpark.

http://www.stillfront.com/site/wp-co...ation-v1.0.pdf

Slide 13 lists Simu revenue at 4.1m Swedish Krona in Q1, which is roughly $508,000 over 3 months. Figure roughly $250k/quarter for GS4 equals $1 million in revenues/ year.

Yeah but we were trying to figure out how much comes just from monthly subscriptions. It's tough to know how much of that is subscriptions and how much comes from stuff such as paid events an SimuCoin store, although I would be surprised if paid events/SimuCoin store is half what they get from subscriptions, I think one time Solomon said they rely mostly on subscriptions but its been a while since Solomon was in charge so who knows how things are different now.