FF14 server wide statistics

why would a low % of T5/T9 clears be considered a bad thing ? if anything they be prideful they made challenging content, a lot of devs that make something hard expect this, players as well. If the % is high, it will read as 2 things, the game is too easy, or this game is full of highly skilled players (which we know is much the opposite).

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Originally Posted by TomTom1968

^^^ yeah I also fear that they would try to hide some of the numbers from us because they put their Design in question. But I hope for at least some numbers. I mean you get a vague idea if you are on a Playstation console, the last time I looked, the T5 achievement for example was achieved from 5% lol. This was 3 months ago, numbers have surely changed by now and latest raise in Echo buff.

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I was pretty happy when I first got my PS4 and they'd implemented % figures of people with the game registered on their system, and the % of people with a Turn 5 clear was less than 1% at that point :D

I think demonstrating that the content is challenging rather than facerollingly easy would be a good thing for the developers.

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Originally Posted by LukeyP666

I was pretty happy when I first got my PS4 and they'd implemented % figures of people with the game registered on their system, and the % of people with a Turn 5 clear was less than 1% at that point :D

I think demonstrating that the content is challenging rather than facerollingly easy would be a good thing for the developers.

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most of the content is facerolling easy, but even more ppl are just bad as hell

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Originally Posted by raelgun

why would a low % of T5/T9 clears be considered a bad thing ? if anything they be prideful they made challenging content, a lot of devs that make something hard expect this, players as well. If the % is high, it will read as 2 things, the game is too easy, or this game is full of highly skilled players (which we know is much the opposite).

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There are so many ways to "read" or "interpret" data (aka PR spin), that it could be seen as bad if that low percentage is due to people not wanting to run the content because it sucks, or that gave up because they got tired of beating their heads against something (too difficult).

From a PR standpoint, SE (and most companies) dont want you to know the hard numbers, because they can be taken in several different ways or spun to tell the story a certain person wants. They stick to generic terms like "A large number of people....", or "A majority of..." rather than say... "50,000 players out of 2 million have completed 'X'....".

One of those statements sounds good from a PR standpoint, the other not so much.

Look at the spin WildStar is putting on their "Mega Servers". Making it a big positive PR thing to merge servers to better help with grouping and raids. The flip side is, they are merging because populations have tanked to low levels across all servers... but they wont come out and say that.

Yoshida mentioned that the total number of people that cleared turn 9 was around 2,000 in the 14 hour live stream event.

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Originally Posted by ruskie

There is a census coming at TGS according to the anniversary site so look forward to atleast some of that info I'd say.

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This would be a horribly inaccurate census. Not exactly a solid mix of types of players playing the game. This would only reach the mostly hardcore players, as well as some not telling the truth. I could see a number like 75% of players have cleared t9, Lol sure.