[quote='fpanko',index.php?page=Thread&postID=85442# post85442]Even though all the numbers in this post are based on "generous assumptions". In other words guesses[/quote]

The only time I make assumptions it is always negatively benefitial to the multiboxing community.

For example, by claiming that there are 9k multiboxers (registered on site), but being "generous" that only 2k are potentially 70 and playing arenas, I am actually making the percentage of lvl70 multiboxers with gladiator titles DECREASE. If I were "padding the numbers in our favor", if you will, I would've used the 9k number as per our memberlist. [i](as per [url='http://dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=83849#post83849']this post[/url])[/i]

By "generously assuming" that all multiboxers are playing 5 accounts at once, as opposed to say 2 or 3 accounts, I am actually adding weight to the negative side of the argument for us -- increasing the amount of revenue Blizzard would get from us. If I were padding the numbers, I would've taken the minimum and assumed everyone was a 2-boxer.

So the fact that these numbers come out to 0.0047% multiboxing revenue, or 0.04% multiboxers have arena titles, even WHEN I am rounding my numbers towards the anti-multiboxer's advantage, says something.

As you can see, none of these assumptions are in the favor of multiboxers. If I am skewing the percentages, I am skewing them towards an upper limit rather than a lower limit (spare for item D):
Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree
Let's make the generous assumption that
A) they are all active
B) they all multibox on WoW (as opposed to other games)
C) they all multibox two or more characters
D) all multiboxers are represented and registered on dual-boxing.com

...

Let's also make the (untrue) assumption that
A) all players of WoW worldwide pay $15/month in subscription fees
B) there are no more than 10 million subscribers since the original article was written
Anything from us is a guess, really, because Blizzard doesn't release the actual number of active 2+ account multiboxers. We also don't have a more recent count of how many accounts are active at this exact date either. But the difference between rounding the numbers off to make things "clear", and using the facts that we DO happen to have available to us, is that one is an educated guess based on as many facts as we can get -- and the other is not.

All you need to do is figure out what percent of the total population is multiboxers.
That percentage will match the percentage of income that blizz makes from boxers.
This assumption is also incorrect if multiboxers follow a different country-distribution than the rest of the WoW players. If we primarily come from, for example, America... who pays between $12.99-$15.99 per month... while the distribution of "single boxers" veers more towards Chinese WoW which is pay-per-hour, then there will be a disjunct dispite the percentage.

Both of our arguments hinge on the fact that we are assuming that both multiboxers and solo-boxers are statistically spread in the same geographical market areas.

Hence my caveat:
Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree
Let's also make the (untrue) assumption that
A) all players of WoW worldwide pay $15/month in subscription fees