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I've never seen a board with admins so lenient...
We've always given people long leashes. To get banned from these boards, you almost have to BEG for it. Unless you're posting spam, you'd get actual warnings from admins (and other disciplinary actions, such as forum mutes) before the banhammer would fall. I've only ever had to ban one person over out-of-control attitude problems (and I've only ever muted a few).
That said, I'd almost always prefer arguing with people than banning or censoring them.
If you come here to dish it, you'd best be willing to take it.
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200k registrations != 200k people Catwho. IIRC you were one of the people who upgraded your SE to a CE? You count as two registrations. Did you purchase and register the game for other platforms like PS3 or PS4? Perhaps you count as 3 or 4. That's been my whole point here.
I'm not sure it's quite like that. Yoshi-P has mentioned the 1.8-million figure as "characters," so this recent news probably refers to characters as well. Now, if Catwho makes two characters, then that probably counts as two toward the total. However, upgrading from the ps3 to the ps4 version wouldn't cause new characters to be registered. In other words, I'd be shocked if the number was as artificially inflated as you're suggesting it could be.
The PS4 is selling like hot cakes, and all the reviews for ARR on the PS4 have been glowing. It's obvious by playing the game right now that the servers are experiencing an influx of players, too, and clearly not just because of 2.2. It's not exactly a mystery that lots of new people are joining the game.
But, as I've said from the beginning, an influx of X registrations doesn't mean an influx of X subscribers. Only SE knows the science of the game's retention rate.
Edited, Apr 17th 2014 3:31pm by Thayos