Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
Aye, the more I dig the more those figures I used look bad.

SE announced a 27 million characters created milestone last year with estimates that it'll hit 30 mil at some point this year (Likely with some fanfare when it happens). There's no way 20 mil of those are actively subbing still IMO.

Whoops!
Even Lucky Bancho has some funky numbers. They reported 1,130,000 "active" characters as of the 22nd of August.

Now the question is at which point a character is considered no longer active. Since the previous census was on the 20th of June there has been quite some time between the two, so we actually have no idea if this is monthly active players or daily or simply characters active between those two data points and then you also have to take into account that "active characters" doesn't actually mean "subscribed accounts" since it includes alts as long as they are actively played.