What new Jug Pets would you like to see 91-99?

[FrankReynolds]

I keep seeing people say that Japanese players make up most of ffxi's population. Does anyone have a link to where they have those stats posted? I've been trying to Google it, and I can't find crap. At any rate, I don't see the argument for a higher Japanese player base as valid. If they didn't vote, then they either A) don't play beast master or B) just don't care.
either way, they shouldn't have the most influence if they don't vote.

[Insaniac]

It was a regional vote population doesn't matter, that's how it was decided. Sure if that 1 French person were to vote then ya he would have made up 25% of the final tally. His vote would have been his region vote thus giving his region a 25% shot just like all the other regions to have their final choice win. Again population doesn't matter in a regional vote.

The JP ultimately make up most of the player base on this game. If we were to have this vote on POL im sure the jp votes would more then double the NA votes. So should they then have more say over us? or should each region have an equal say in the end?



I came to the conclusion that people would vote in different regions based on the comments in this thread a few pages back. Sorry I was over generalizing the different sections of the forum I should have been referring to the NA as English. This covers you.

You are just arguing to argue. If SE claims 1 language 1 vote they are just making excuses or they are just plain stupid. With as many options as they had each region could have easily voted for a different jug. Or the french and german forums could have cast a total of 9 votes but both voted for a pet neither the english or jp forums voted for and that pet would have won.

[Logandor]

I think and this is entirely my opinion its based off when people get to play and they notice that from the time changes in the day there is a higher population of players online during the daylight time for Japan compared to their midnight time and US day time. This is just an opinion because whenever I have sat and played on my free time which times vary greatly between day and night I would do a search world on the game and take note that wow night life there is over 3k of people either afk or online compared to 1500 during the day. Those are rough estimates please don't quote me on it. >.< Now I do know they post the census of the game online but I don't have that page marked on my bookmarks. It normally is done in the Spring time. I do hope that helps FrankReynolds.

[deces]

"Just give us the top 5 most voted jugs, that would make about 98% of us happy "

And 4 of those 5 jugs they will make sure cost 200k a stack, where the hippo costs 5k

And how the hell did you come to that conclusion?

[FrankReynolds]

I think and this is entirely my opinion its based off when people get to play and they notice that from the time changes in the day there is a higher population of players online during the daylight time for Japan compared to their midnight time and US day time. This is just an opinion because whenever I have sat and played on my free time which times vary greatly between day and night I would do a search world on the game and take note that wow night life there is over 3k of people either afk or online compared to 1500 during the day. Those are rough estimates please don't quote me on it. >.< Now I do know they post the census of the game online but I don't have that page marked on my bookmarks. It normally is done in the Spring time. I do hope that helps FrankReynolds.

yeah, I've found lots of census info, but nothing that shows the nationality of the actual players.

That population by time thing could be correct. It could also just mean that Japanese players don't stay logged in, while people in other regions tend to leave their characters afk, rather than log out. A lot of people claim that PS2 is what most JP players use, which would explain why you don't see a lot of JP bazaar mules standing around. I also have 2 Japanese accounts, as do many other people who bought the game when it was still in JP only release, so the census may not be very accurate to boot.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

I came to the conclusion that people would vote in different regions based on the comments in this thread a few pages back. Sorry I was over generalizing the different sections of the forum I should have been referring to the NA as English. This covers you.

That's an unfair way to vote. The vast numbers of countries that speak English over say Japanese, French or German being bulked into one vote makes the voting system faulty and biased.

If you want a regional vote then as someone from the UK my vote SHOULD be separated from the NA votes and so on, by clumping them together it means basically SE can fix the votes to the way they want it to be.

[Motenten]

I keep seeing people say that Japanese players make up most of ffxi's population. Does anyone have a link to where they have those stats posted?

Based on what I remember of the yearly census results SE has posted in the past (not going to try looking it up right now, though), there's a fairly steady baseline of players online all the time, then a small-to-moderate spike of players that log in during NA prime time periods, and a large spike of players that log in during JP prime time. Overall it gives the impression that a heavy majority of the player base is JP, even if they're only on a few hours per day.

[FrankReynolds]

Based on what I remember of the yearly census results SE has posted in the past (not going to try looking it up right now, though), there's a fairly steady baseline of players online all the time, then a small-to-moderate spike of players that log in during NA prime time periods, and a large spike of players that log in during JP prime time. Overall it gives the impression that a heavy majority of the player base is JP, even if they're only on a few hours per day.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../10/index.html

according to the last census, and all the past ones I looked at, the peak is at Japanese midnight, which is 8-11 AM in the United states, and late afternoon in Europe. I know gamers tend to be night owls, but it seems like that could just as easily be people from other time zones where it is day time.

[Insaniac]

I said the same thing last time this conversation came up but no one wants to believe that the entire rest of the world could add up to more than just the JPs. That spike is just the time when JPs haven't logged yet, EUs are wide awake and NAs are just waking up and the smaller spike is where JPs are waking up, NAs are still awake, and EUs are dead asleep.

[Earwig]

I wanna see an Opo-opo pet...