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    Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
    I have really nothing I wish to discuss with you other than how you managed to pull these numbers. 126 Dreadnoughts?
    That's active accounts with the mount, not counting inactive (unsubbed) or deleted accounts, so however many people 'earned' the Dreadnought there's only 126 at this moment that are active, same with the Porxie King that was used as an example, I cannot find any tracker that keeps a total count of all Feast rewards and who earned them, otherwise I could've gone down the lists to see which players earned multiple spots for themselves. I even say 'active accounts with it', there is no perception being skewed, I was very clear on what I wrote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boa-Noah View Post
    That's active accounts with the mount, not counting inactive (unsubbed) or deleted accounts, so however many people 'earned' the Dreadnought there's only 126 at this moment that are active, same with the Porxie King that was used as an example, I cannot find any tracker that keeps a total count of all Feast rewards and who earned them, otherwise I could've gone down the lists to see which players earned multiple spots for themselves. I even say 'active accounts with it', there is no perception being skewed, I was very clear on what I wrote.
    Good for the clarification because I for one did not know if "active" meant with an active sub, counting generally non-banned accounts and so on. For those like me who have not been on this site this was not obvious or it may have slipped my eyes that you did explain it in that post, thank you.

    So basically if I see this right, this is just 126 currently subbed accounts out off 800 at the time of that reading. I truly mean no ill with this, but that metric has little to offer for statistics because when comparing all those special mounts from both pvp and non-pvp, the people currently subbed/unsubbed might not be the same player groups. Furthermore, I believe it was mentioned that it is generally okay to stay unsubbed until a patch goes live you want to play, which many players are doing to my knowledge. Players should not feel the need to be subbed just to prove that their mount counts for statistics.

    TL;DR: Actively-subbed as a metric for something that has a maximum amount tied to it is a statistically insignificant metric. It would be better to count both inactive and active accounts due to the possiblity of returning players given how subbing for the game is treated.
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    Last edited by Reinhardt_Azureheim; 04-28-2024 at 03:30 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim View Post
    It would be better to count both inactive and active accounts due to the possiblity of returning players given how subbing for the game is treated.
    True, absolutely it would be and it would be a better metric if taken from when Dawntrail actually drops since the majority of players tend to preorder or rush the expansion when it hits release which would hopefully bring a fair few back so it's a more accurate reading.
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