So, search for total populations...

Are you guys open the "All Classes" Menue and actually mark them all? <_< No idea how you guys do it but this is current Number on Gysahl:

Level 01-10 - 48 People
Level 11-20 - 72 People
Level 21-30 - 109 People
Level 31-40 - 124 People
Level 41-45 - 98 People
Level 46-49 - 65 People

Level 50 - Ok now im curious how you People do it:

72 GLA
31 PGL
44 MRD
67 LNC
138 ARC
152 CNJ
62 THM
11 Gatherclasses
42 Crafter

That is a total of 1135 ! And its not Primetime of any Region. So i ask again.. you guys actually MARK the Classes are you looking for?

Edit: lackofwords is doing it right: :)

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Originally Posted by Nero

That is a total of 1135 ! And its not Primetime of any Region.

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It's nearing JP peak hours if not already their peak hour, 10:48pm now in Japan... hence my point how people are forgetting their player base is mainly in Japan.

Take FFXI peak hours as a guide, since it's roughly the same player base ratio.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../09/index.html

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Originally Posted by lackofwords

It's nearing JP peak hours if not already their peak hour, 10:48pm now in Japan... hence my point how people are forgetting their player base is mainly in Japan.

Take FFXI peak hours as a guide, since it's roughly the same player base ratio.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../09/index.html

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JP Peak is starting right now, so still checking.

Level 01-10 - 49 People
Level 11-20 - 63 People
Level 21-30 - 115 People
Level 31-40 - 120 People
Level 41-45 - 92 People
Level 46-49 - 74 People

Level 50 - Ok now im curious how you People do it:

77 GLA
30 PGL
51 MRD
68 LNC
142 ARC
168 CNJ
66 THM
11 Gatherclasses
32 Crafter

Total: 1158 going up slowly.

At a Sidenote: We wont know the current Numbers until be first Tally will be out. At the moment we just can assume. Just that we have 1158 right now on Gysahl, does not mean that most of them are the same Players i found an hour ago. Its just an aprox Number in 1 Peaktime of 3 Peaktimes. And even between those 3 Mainpeaktimes exist Countries which come on at certain Times we are not aware of. etc etc.

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Originally Posted by TheVedis

this isnt their peak hours though is it?

remember, we are talking peak hours

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Even low servers max at 300-400 at peak.

So even if you got 1000k per server, that 1000k isnt garaunteed to stay when billing starts is it? A lot of people saying they will stop playing once it goes p2p so the faithful customers might not be so faithful after all.

But in the end, as disturbing as these numbers are, they will all reduce a significant amount come January 6th, we can compare then the difference and see just how bad things or or see if SE got faithful customers.

Not to mention there are people who play all day or across 2 time segments (afternoon to peak) so say if 200 at afternoon and 300 at peak that isnt 500 unique people garauntee, 100 of them could be people still playing, infact that is more likely true because people AFK a lot. you know... or bot lol.

9:20am EST / 2:20pm GMT / 11:20pm JP

Roughly 700 ppl on Trabia.

very sad considering that we just had a major patch release and it's free... 6 jan will be the "death" of this game until 2.0 ? (they'll do server merge of course... but for how many player total.. uhmm 10k ? )

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

So the size of the playerbase = how sustainable the upkeep of the service is?

That is wrong on quite many levels, and your logic as a whole is less than stellar.

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People play MMO's for 2 reasons. 1) for an almost never ending stream of content (which this game doesn't have yet), and to play with thousands of other people from around the world. Thats 1000's, not hundreds. Cripes even XI's smallest server had 2000 people on it at a time during slow hours. So yes, why would I pay a monthly fee to play with 10 other people? If they want to charge with these numbers, at least let us switch worlds so we can play on a well populated server. The two are related. My logic is just fine thanks.

The reason for me to unsub, my home-shell died some time ago and other shells dont want to play much together. Add such low population, there is no fun for me left in this game. Only fan-shells are staying with strong cores, but they re like "locked shells".

They did right when they removed server-population indicator.

Numbers look okay for JP primetime. Unfortunately, that's not much help for someone who can't play during JP prime lol.

I mean, I know the server merge is just a bad idea in terms of PR, but FFXI started merges when servers hit approx 800-1100 people at quiet times. They were still seeing 2000 during peak hours, so it's hard to justify these servers are fine when a 9 year old game at the time had more people/server. Not to mention, on the first merger, the game had 30 servers, 11 more than XIV does. Hell, even at the time of merger, Odin wasn't even accepting people cause it was hitting 6,000+ at times.

I like this game, it's gotten leaps and bounds better, but when JP primetime is only hitting 1100 players at peak times on the more populated servers? There's gonna be one huge problem come billing time.