September Census

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Originally Posted by Dumbledoremd

Stop already if the numbers dont come from square they are not accurate you are doing this 1 for attention and 2 to stir trouble

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Even the numbers that come from square... well, you can say they're accurate, but they're useless. Since they count all characters ever in their official census. Which these stat sites also do with just as much accuracy, but then they track extra stuff (with less accuracy, but far from useless).

Like another poster said, Square will never give us useful info, because 9+ million registrations/characters sounds a lot better than "about 600k active subs".

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Originally Posted by DarkSlayerGrimm

@_@ that low femroe count, I only seen like 3-4 femroes running around on this server :\

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Yes it is tragic. People love us but don't want to play as one, though i'm ok with this I guess. That Rarity actually adds to our charm, and people love to see one in party lol

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Originally Posted by AskaRay

You trying to tell me Lich has the most characters MADE on an EU server yet no one plays here???

Interesting to note I rarely see many bots. Unless they're chilling under the map; I'm not looking there (obviously).

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Maybe cause you are never in limsa etc.? lol Lich has so many gil spammer/bots compared to other servers

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Concurrent logins.

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Not seeing where it states this.

The only number that matters to square and it's investors is the bottom line.

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Originally Posted by Simpicity

Not seeing where it states this.

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Does the phrase I bolded not make sense to you? "High Congestion" = high character count logged in during that time.

It's well known your best chance at getting a character into Balmung or other "Full" servers is to attempt creation during non peak hours for that region. Of course many people get the same idea and it also is locked out at times. I mean you don't have to believe me if you don't want to but that's the fact.

I don't think it's fair to try to justify bad content by trying to slice out players who aren't participating in it as 'not counting'. There are severe flaws in that argument aside from that pretense, the foremost of that is:

You don't need 3.3 to do Alexander.

No matter how you try to justify the percentage base even if you were to half the number of current 'applicable players' the percentage is miserable. The content just barely started to resemble something that narrow margin of raiders that established themselves back in Coil Era enjoyed. But we're forgetting that even Coil Era clears and participation was bad.

Seriously, quit defending raids. Pretty much everyone who raids has criticisms leveled against it - even those who are trying to say that they're not 'as bad'. Recognize the Stockholm syndrome and actually work to discuss improvements.

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Originally Posted by Hyrist

Seriously, quit defending raids.

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Oh I certainly hope nobody is defending them, people do however try to use the low clear rates to try and make it clear raids are just a waste of time to have in the game at all.

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Recognize the Stockholm syndrome and actually work to discuss improvements.

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Oh, we did. Back and forth. To a degree that it became detailed "How to" instruction. But so far developers reaction was "Nope. Screw you".

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Originally Posted by Jynx

Does the phrase I bolded not make sense to you? "High Congestion" = high character count logged in during that time.

It's well known your best chance at getting a character into Balmung or other "Full" servers is to attempt creation during non peak hours for that region. Of course many people get the same idea and it also is locked out at times. I mean you don't have to believe me if you don't want to but that's the fact.

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Too many times things are stated as fact when the are actually inferences.