only 500k subscribers?

worse than I thought if it's true

edited: one guy said on a Chinese forum at around mid-Jan that of all 41 Chinese FF14 servers, only 2 had over 1k active players, the rest all had less than 1k
he also mentioned in most of these servers the economy are in complete meltdown, nobody ever buys anything from the market
many other posts from different sources also pointed out the 'causes (such as SE's strict stance against RMT which is a norm in Chinese mmo culture)' of economical meltdowns and the existence of many "ghost servers"
based on the general impression from these posts, my guess is that Chinese FF14 service wouldn't have much more than 100k subscribers, if not less

well, these numbers do disappoint, but it also makes me less critical on SE... I no longer feel it justified pushing them on extra spendings such as expanding server capacity or staffing... I'm content that it doesn't go B2P like what ESO is about to turn into, or even F2P

let's just keep our fingers crossed and hope 3.0 can turn the table around

p.s. didn't want to provide the source because I wasn't sure whether people care, since nobody ever asked this question.
if you want source goto Willo_w's reply - also, don't forget to read all the way till the bottom before start yelling "it's outdated"

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Basic Internet etiquette: Don't make a factual claim without providing support. Not saying you're wrong - but support would be helpful (especially if it's recent news).

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http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/squar...ribers/0143457

Update is 20 days old but says source is SE themselves

Even if this is the case, 500k subs is still more than enough to fund the game and the xpacs to come. It's not wow popular but it doesn't need to be. People need to get over the whole concept that it takes millions of subs to keep something going. SoE has even less subs throughout all of it's mmos and still flourishes releasing new content constantly in all of them.

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http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/squar...ribers/0143457

Update is 20 days old but says source is SE themselves

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That doesn't support the statement made above other than saying "the subs is under 1 million since 1 million is the sum of three games" not that FFXIV has 500k subs.

If however someone wanted to actually support what the user above said they could use this link instead.

Reddit Brancho Estimation

It's a study that used lodestone profiles with a listed criteria for determining activity. They put the estimate at 574,440 back in december. Which isn't as bad as what the OP listed, but not as good as we'd hope. That said they still make tons of money to continue supporting this game each month so there is no reason to be worried.

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Originally Posted by Tiggy

That doesn't support the statement made above other than saying "the subs is under 1 million since 1 million is the sum of three games" not that FFXIV has 500k subs.

If however someone wanted to actually support what the user above said they could use this link instead.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...eased_another/

It's a study that used lodestone profiles with a listed criteria for determining activity. They put the estimate at 574,440 back in december. Which isn't as bad as what the OP listed, but not as good as we'd hope. That said they still make tons of money to continue supporting this game each month so there is no reason to be worried.

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Square Enix tells MCV that the actual number of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn paying subscribers sits at 500,000

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Square Enix tells MCV that the actual number of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn paying subscribers sits at 500,000

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I didnt see that update. I read the article a month or so back when it was added and that is a new addition since then. That said it still has an interested disparity with the above numbers. I'd still wager square rounded down.

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