a lot
how many basic members are there in chess.com?
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About 85%
myname3000 wrote:
About 85%
How did you arrive at this number?
Incidentally, this would mean that 15% of the 690,000 players, or approxamately 103,500 have at least a silver membership. Assuming (conservatively) that they've all opted for annual silver memberships at $2.49/month that means that chess.com is pulling in a minimum of $250,000 per month.
Although I'd be happy to hear for Erik's sake that this was the case, somehow I think it's a far higher percentage than 85%.
TheGrobe wrote:
myname3000 wrote:
About 85%
How did you arrive at this number?
Incidentally, this would mean that 15% of the 690,000 players, or approxamately 103,500 have at least a silver membership. Assuming (conservatively) that they've all opted for annual silver memberships at $2.49/month that means that chess.com is pulling in a minimum of $250,000 per month.
Although I'd be happy to hear for Erik's sake that this was the case, somehow I think it's a far higher percentage than 85%.
I will recalculate
TheGrobe wrote:
myname3000 wrote:
About 85%
How did you arrive at this number?
Incidentally, this would mean that 15% of the 690,000 players, or approxamately 103,500 have at least a silver membership. Assuming (conservatively) that they've all opted for annual silver memberships at $2.49/month that means that chess.com is pulling in a minimum of $250,000 per month.
Although I'd be happy to hear for Erik's sake that this was the case, somehow I think it's a far higher percentage than 85%.
To be fair it seems like a very high percentage of forum posters have some form of premium membership; he is probably estimating based on that.
Most players don't post on the forums, and I'd go so far to say that a good chunk of those 600,000 players don't actually play here anymore.
Maybe 1-3% are premium members.
0% of members are silver anymore.
zeus_poseidon_hades wrote:
0% of members are silver anymore.
Well, they got a free boost to a Gold membership if they were Silver when chess.com cancelled it. : )
ADK
IM a mooch :-)
Premium FTW! ;)
I am one myself