Server Merge

[Castanica]

SE posted sever losses for last year, playstation dumped all it's SE stock, and they're basically bleeding cash, I wouldn't count on them doing much of anything in the way of server mergers if it cost money to do. They put out FFXIV and claim 2 million players on the front page of their lodestone, but if that was the case they wouldn't be so hard up right now. I don't know what they're thinking, but they could have kept alot of people by doing a merge when they saw populations declining, that would have kept some of the players here, because let's face it, quite a few have left because there is a lack of people to do things with, and it gets quite frustrating at times.

Somehow I get the feeling that they want us to spend the money to transfer to other worlds, but that probably isnt going to happen, if they allowed free transfer service to select worlds the problem could be solved without them spending alot of cash to fix it

FFXIV has 2 million registered players, that's not subscribers. Many of the servers on FFXIV are just as bad as they are on FFXI, they don't want to do merges because it's embarassing.

FFXI probably has 10+ million registered players by now, registered players means all players that ever registered for a SE account even if it's long since inactive. Registered players covers beta players, players that played for a week and never came back, rmt etc. It's a worthless number used for PR.

[Vold]

FFXIV has 2 million registered players, that's not subscribers. Many of the servers on FFXIV are just as bad as they are on FFXI, they don't want to do merges because it's embarassing.

FFXI probably has 10+ million registered players by now, registered players means all players that ever registered for a SE account even if it's long since inactive. Registered players covers beta players, players that played for a week and never came back, rmt etc. It's a worthless number used for PR.

Dare I say the server pops over there are even less than FFXI. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or they severely limit search abilities, but searching each region one at a time and counting it up, I've counted as little as 500 server pop in between major updates. It's kind of sad because the people on the forums for 14 are just either completely oblivious to the truth or they choose to overlook it and quote the 2 mil figure in defense of a game that is failing because SE traded trademark SE gameplay for mainstream easy mode to maximize subscribers. Only problem is they didn't correctly predict that their target audience played that style of game to death over at WoW. Now they got a MMORPG that can't hold the attention of mainstream gamers for long AND it's worthless to the core fans. Ouch?

I see nothing but emptiness in 14 these days, with Mor being by far the most populated with around 80-180 people there. Shrug. I feel bad for whoever at SE that looks at the figures and scratches their head all dumbfounded "....um....how is it FFXI is doing better than FFXIV... uhhhh... <blank stare for hours>"

[predatory]

Dare I say the server pops over there are even less than FFXI. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or they severely limit search abilities, but searching each region one at a time and counting it up, I've counted as little as 500 server pop in between major updates. It's kind of sad because the people on the forums for 14 are just either completely oblivious to the truth or they choose to overlook it and quote the 2 mil figure in defense of a game that is failing because SE traded trademark SE gameplay for mainstream easy mode to maximize subscribers. Only problem is they didn't correctly predict that their target audience played that style of game to death over at WoW. Now they got a MMORPG that can't hold the attention of mainstream gamers for long AND it's worthless to the core fans. Ouch?

I see nothing but emptiness in 14 these days, with Mor being by far the most populated with around 80-180 people there. Shrug. I feel bad for whoever at SE that looks at the figures and scratches their head all dumbfounded "....um....how is it FFXI is doing better than FFXIV... uhhhh... <blank stare for hours>"

What they did was try to push people over there by making this one like that one, and what happened was it blew up in their faces, what they should have done, (and anybody with even a modicum of intelligence would have done), was other than an expansion they should have left ffxi alone, but being the rocket scientists that they aren't, they decided to reinvent the wheel, and like anyone else in history thats done that they fucking failed. SE i have an idea for you morons, if its not broken, dont fix it

[predatory]

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[Afania]

Dare I say the server pops over there are even less than FFXI. I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or they severely limit search abilities, but searching each region one at a time and counting it up, I've counted as little as 500 server pop in between major updates.

14's search function isn't accurate. AFAIK you can't search players in instance.

ARR is kinda instance based MMORPG, 95%(or more) of event happen in instances, most players spend their time in instances. Using search function won't give you accurate number unless they change it recently.

You won't be able to know the exact active player in ARR, SE wouldn't release it. They only ever give a vague and misleading number like "2 million registered account".