FFXI REMASTERED! Do eeeet!

[Pixela]

You're now mad. You are well aware that I was saying XI has more players than XIV on steam.

I was also not saying XIV doesn't have a lot of players, I was saying it doesn't have as many as they pretend it does and benefits from the XI player numbers and profits. Especially when they use vague language, for instance I alone have over 80 "characters" on XI that are on XIV square enix accounts.



If they didn't need XI to boost player numbers, they would state them separate on financial reports.

[Catmato]

You're now mad. You are well aware that I was saying XI has more players than XIV on steam.

As much as I hate to agree with Analhelm, he's right about this one. The way you phrased it implies XIV has fewer Steam players than XI does.

[Pixela]

As much as I hate to agree with Analhelm, he's right about this one. The way you phrased it implies XIV has fewer Steam players than XI does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWj2vOEBmA

[Alhanelem]

As much as I hate to agree with Analhelm, he's right about this one. The way you phrased it implies XIV has fewer Steam players than XI does.

This is why I always tell people precision in wording is important. Yes, some people may see it the way the person speaking intended, but poor / ambiguous phrasing can send a different message than was intended. We can't read each other's minds.

I guess he was trying to say that FFXI has more *total* active users than FFXIV has players on Steam by itself. While probably true (even though I think FFXIAH's method of calculation disporportionately represents bots, as bots use the AH all the time and some players may go long periods of time without using the AH and not appear in this chart), I think it's a largely meaningless observation. FFXIV was not released on steam until later, and is still on a console (well, two sort of) platform, so Steam represents a relatively low percentage of FFXIV players- In no small part because new players are often advised to buy the game standalone from SE rather than from steam.