Found Some Server Character Population Numbers

FFXIV ARR has 1m subs total? I'm reading this right?

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Originally Posted by PandaTaru

FFXIV ARR has 1m subs total? I'm reading this right?

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I believe this is the amount of characters created and not subs. But figure maybe 1.5 to 2 characters at most per sub.

So basically they have a hard time containing 500K subs across both regions?

If those numbers are accurate, then NA/EU comprises almost precisely 2/3 of the entire FF14 population.

Something about this doesn't make sense. All of the numbers are backwards from what everyone has been saying. I think these number might be characters created since launch? That would make the most sense and would line up the most with everyone's experiences. For example, the servers it's showing the highest numbers on here are the ones I saw open more often to character creation yesterday when I spent several hours trying to get my girlfriend's character to be created on my server.

Isn't this a relatively old chart? I feel like I saw this on FFXIV subreddit a few weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by mkopec1

So basically they have a hard time containing 500K subs across both regions?

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You came off a bit high and mighty, have you made an MMO? 500k is very good. Releasing an MMO with so many others established and to do this well, its amazing to get this many. with more then 100 MMORPG's to choose from it would be wrong to compare it to the stagnant MMO Giants of the past, who were competing against 4 other MMO's. This is a very huge success, Enough so to warrant the spending of the likely several million it cost to increase datacenters

It is going to take them a couple years to just get a return on there investment into the game.

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Originally Posted by PandaTaru

FFXIV ARR has 1m subs total? I'm reading this right?

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no, because nobody has paid a sub yet.

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Originally Posted by miked4o7

Something about this doesn't make sense. All of the numbers are backwards from what everyone has been saying. I think these number might be characters created since launch? That would make the most sense and would line up the most with everyone's experiences. For example, the servers it's showing the highest numbers on here are the ones I saw open more often to character creation yesterday when I spent several hours trying to get my girlfriend's character to be created on my server.

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Wel they locked Gilgamesh and Leviathan right away so no new characters since Saturday. Who knows if the caps on the other servers were the same or higher.

It looks like the data is a couple days old (likely collected on the 26th, which was before launch). My guess is they collected the data via crawling the lodestone, which is where the breakdown on language numbers came from.