{"id":6152,"date":"2009-11-25T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2009-11-25T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:37:00","slug":"life-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=6152","title":{"rendered":"Life of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Funk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/view-from-the-road\/6808-A-View-From-the-Road-World-Without-Warcraft\">asked<\/a> what the world would be like without WoW.  I think the following is an amusing (if impertinent) answer to that:<\/p>\n<p>Assume 15 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Assume they play an average of 100 hours.  (Which is probably low.)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 1,500,000,000 (1.5 billion) hours of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>Which is 62,500,000 days.<\/p>\n<p>Which is 171,233 years.<\/p>\n<p>Which is 2,195 lifetimes, using the current life expectancy of 78. <\/p>\n<p>Over two thousand <em>lifetimes<\/em> of gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is based on the assumption that players will clock an average of 100 hours. Sure, there are people with weeks and even months of in-game time clocked, but there will also be some with just a couple of hours.  <\/p>\n<p>Without any way of breaking it down, the &#8220;100 hours&#8221; is nothing more than an <em>extremely<\/em> conservative guess.  I&#8217;ve Google&#8217;d about and I couldn&#8217;t find any solid numbers.  (Which isn&#8217;t surprising, since it&#8217;s not the sort of thing Blizzard is likely to proclaim \/ admit.)  <\/p>\n<p>Exercise: How could we go about coming up with a better &#8220;hours played&#8221; estimate?  Is it possible to look at the player dB, get a count of total characters \/ levels, and do the math from there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday John Funk asked what the world would be like without WoW. I think the following is an amusing (if impertinent) answer to that: Assume 15 million subscribers. Assume they play an average of 100 hours. (Which is probably low.) That&#8217;s 1,500,000,000 (1.5 billion) hours of Warcraft. Which is 62,500,000 days. Which is 171,233 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}