Goodbye to the lots of you come thursday

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Originally Posted by Manafont

The game is really lacking, wish they did damage like ffxi where every increase in stats was seen in your damage.

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LOL .

What a well camouflaged bitching thread though.

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From all the stats the JP have accumulated, it's been pretty steady between 10 and 15k, so I assume it'll head towards the 10k mark come billing time. Least it's 100,000$ in SE's pocket to help maintain servers and what not.

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Wait what? Correct me if I misunderstood but you're seriously thinking simultaneous logins = active playerbase? In that case WoW has only million players!

Betelgeuzah, B-wording about people who B-word. So many people B-word in this forum. If you B-word about every one of them, I am starting to see how you have 3000 posts.

Great, so now you're making me b-word about people who b-word about b-worders. >.<;

I-word d-word g-word y-word p-word.

The bird is the word!

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Originally Posted by TonyMontana

These forums along with most FFXIV forums are a virtual ghost town. I seriously doubt ALOT of anyone comes here very often.

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I agree that a good portion of FFXIV forums such as FFXVIPro, FFXIVCore, FFXIV YG, FFXIV Gamerscape, and the MMORPG FFXIV sub forums are currently ghost towns. Granted some of these forums were made primarily for gathering information for their database and forums as a secondary function. However, BG forums and ZAM forums are still more or less active (much less than before but still somewhat active) with the official forums being active.

But yeah once January 6th hits (unless people who logged on the 5th still get 30 days to post before inactivity kicks in?) then yeah I would say that all of those forums except for one will probably become ghost towns with the sporadic update etc. The only one that may still be "somewhat" active will be the Official Forums, probably not as much as it used to be though.

Oh and on another topic, yeah that person that posted that document link just shows the most recent and not the whole population trend. The keyword here being trend. It does not show the entire population of FFXIV, it just gives a snapshot of what the population is during evening JP hours. Actual JP population (when the snapshot is taken: folks online during that snapshot) is actually lower because they make an addendum to each of the servers on their posts (not on the actual graph) by separating them by language as well.



https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...x=x0nb002hrzyo



Oh pardon if I forgot any other major English speaking FFXIV major site, but those are the ones I know off the top of my head that have forums.

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It does not show the entire population of FFXIV, it just gives a snapshot of what the population is during evening JP hours. Actual JP population is actually lower because they make an addendum to each of the servers on their posts (not on the actual graph) by separating them by language as well.

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Actual JP population is much higher because every active Japanese FFXIV player is not online at the time the data is taken.... I'd say at best 1/5th is.

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Originally Posted by Bowen

For the billionth time, how can you expect a company spend all their resources on an MMO and have no Profit?

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For the billionth time, how can you expect a company like SE to NOT finish (in mmo standards) a game for launch?

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Originally Posted by Sarchy_Warchy

For the billionth time, how can you expect a company like SE to NOT finish (in mmo standards) a game for launch?

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Completely arbitrary definitions. The game was finished. It was also bad. One does not rule out the other.

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Originally Posted by Kuroyume_Black

I'll miss my in-game friends that are leaving but besides that I don't really care: It'll mean people wont get trolled on the forums and aside from common belief it wont actually affect in-game population, 90% if not more of the people that are regularly on in Besaid are staying the other 10% will probably come back when 1.21 releases or when 2.0 releases the people that are quitting for good are the trolls who never actually log on...

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I'm mostly concerned with the forum posters who don't play the game at all yet feel the need to inject their (worthless) opinion into every single thread just for the sake of raising their post count e-peen.

In fact, I really hope SE decides to de-activate forum accounts for those who aren't paying for and playing the game. That right there would get rid of 90% of the people that rustle my jimmies.

Wonder how many people will be willing to actually pay just to keep their forum account active.

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Originally Posted by Toffy

Wonder how many people will be willing to actually pay just to keep their forum account active.

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Originally Posted by Toffy

Wonder how many people will be willing to actually pay just to keep their forum account active.

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I hope as few as possible, but I'm 100% certain there are people here willing to pay $9.99 a month in e-penis maintenance fees.

I mean, it's not that far from logging into a game you don't play once a month just to keep on posting.

Tough call for me.

I want to see this game manage to pull itself back up from the lump of sh*t it was at the start. However, between having nothing to do and the only way to get stuff done is with arrow/manaburns I really can't find myself enjoying the game half the time.

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Originally Posted by Sophia

I have been here since day 1 and will remain here until the end

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I used to say that, too. Like a mantra...

I miss the optimism I used to have. :(

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Originally Posted by Corrderio

Tough call for me.

I want to see this game manage to pull itself back up from the lump of sh*t it was at the start.

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You don't even have to play to achieve that goal.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

You don't even have to play to achieve that goal.

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He wants to see it as in experience it first hand, instead of pretending to know something about a game he doesn't play.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

Fixed that for you. . .

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QFT (quitting for truth)

I'll be staying, for what...around 6 pounds 89 sterling, I think I can afford it on a month by month basis, considering I'm also playing World of Warcraft and the Old Republic.

I also enjoy my time in this game - while Old Republic is already starting to bore me, same as Rift did within the first few weeks, and see it improve massively every patch. Saying that, I play so many games that I never really burn out in the same way some folks do - I've been to Toto-Rak once and never to Darkhold, Ifrit (Hard) or Moggle, so I still have all that to look forward too, but for the moment I just enjoy playing and comboing monsters to death.

Much as folks may dislike the launch, this game with the larger focus on parties and actually being part of a community, from fighting to crafting, is what people all over the various gaming forums I visit ask for all the time. If they can deliver in 2.0, then this game will do really well for itself - the ability to play solo and have a more modern UI, but with the more traditional style of MMO gameplay.

the fact is, they already know allot of people will pay. They dont care if 75% of the people leave. that's still 25% that will pay. they will merge servers so there will be less server upkeep and make some money when before they were making none. Its pretty simple.

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Originally Posted by Colino

He wants to see it as in experience it first hand, instead of pretending to know something about a game he doesn't play.

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I knew you had an agenda to bash me in that other thread, haha. I wonder why that is... I'm sure there's no personal bias involved.

Other than Jobs coming not much is going to change before 2.0 at which point we'll be able to try it for free anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ragequit

I'm out! This game sucks cuz there is nothing to do! Also, I hate <insert complaint about stats/U-U melding/primal drops/etc..>

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*checks Ragequit's status*

Funny thing.. Most ppl who complain about lack of content haven't adequately explored what is currently in the game. :rolleyes:

Tip: If you only have ONE lvl 50 job, you still have lots to do.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

I knew you had an agenda to bash me in that other thread, haha. I wonder why that is... I'm sure there's no personal bias involved.

Other than Jobs coming not much is going to change before 2.0 at which point we'll be able to try it for free anyway.

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I had a feeling he was talking about you too but, maybe there is a reason for that?

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Originally Posted by Bowen

I had a feeling he was talking about you too but, maybe there is a reason for that?

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We have had our arguments, and he seems to have taken it one step further.

If you have seen me post you know I don't bullshit around. Easy way to make enemies who take everything personally.

Folks might be gone in-game, but they won't be gones on the forums just yet. Last login + 30 days tis' my understanding of it. At least if they did that December continued subscription-thingie.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

I knew you had an agenda to bash me in that other thread, haha. I wonder why that is... I'm sure there's no personal bias involved.

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Actually I wasn't thinking or talking about you specifically, but I'm glad to see your egomania is still intact.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

We have had our arguments, and he seems to have taken it one step further.

If you have seen me post you know I don't bullshit around. Easy way to make enemies who take everything personally.

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Yes but, you can also be kind of a b*tch/jerk.

I'm staying but my alt account is dead! Dead i says dead!!

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

Folks might be gone in-game, but they won't be gones on the forums just yet. Last login + 30 days tis' my understanding of it. At least if they did that December continued subscription-thingie.

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Hmmm...the kitty in the reindeer suit has a point. If Jan. 5th is the last free day to log on, we can expect the trolls to stick around until Feb. 4th.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Hmmm...the kitty in the reindeer suit has a point. If Jan. 5th is the last free day to log on, we can expect the trolls to stick around until Feb. 4th.

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Active account + Logged in within 30 days. I expect that I and my kind will be gone as of Thursday. Enjoy!

3 More days! xD

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Originally Posted by Zezlar

3 More days! xD

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Counting the days down, I like it! It's about time the player base got cleaned up a bit.

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Originally Posted by Colino

Actually I wasn't thinking or talking about you specifically, but I'm glad to see your egomania is still intact.

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QFT Truth, Justice, and the Onion way.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Hmmm...the kitty in the reindeer suit has a point. If Jan. 5th is the last free day to log on, we can expect the trolls to stick around until Feb. 4th.

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I would rather go naked than wear fur.

But... now I'm kinda confused how I can achieve this.

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

I would rather go naked than wear fur.

But... now I'm kinda confused how I can achieve this.

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going naked is fabulous

so is fur

We have too much fun on Besaid xD

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Originally Posted by Biggs

For a few reasons actually:

1. This isn't some po-dunk company with limited funds.
2. They said they would do everything they could to fix it, this would seem to me anyway to include lots of money.
3. The company in question has numerous other ventures that make them millions, (Animes, games, ect.) and helps publish some of the highest grossing games in the industry.

I feel like i could go on, but I think those 3 cover the core concepts of my point.

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They're still a company with investors, XIV has to show it'll make some kind of profit, it's already been free for a year. No longer -- Just because there's gross income from other projects doesn't mean it's related to the XIV project, let alone 3rd division.

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Originally Posted by Antanias

We have too much fun on Besaid xD

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Well it is the Un-official server of absolute Fabulousness!

i will pay but i will not play, ill support SE but i really cant log for more than 15 min and not get bored.

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Originally Posted by Heat

i will pay but i will not play, ill support SE but i really cant log for more than 15 min and not get bored.

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...that is one of th most backwards things ive seen in a while. Support them when they have a good game to play, not the beta of it.

It's a good thing coming.