Interesting population statistics per Wikipedia and suggested server reallocation

[Yoona]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

I find it hard to believe that there would be many Chinese players at all playing FROM mainland China. Taiwan and Hong Kong possibly. Still wouldn't be a large population in my opinion. I have lived in China and am fluent with Chinese and Chinese culture, and my personal opinion is that a game like FFXIV: ARR would be quite difficult to penetrate into the Chinese market. Do you wonder why we don't have a Chinese version of any of the FFXIV service websites?

I do think there could be a small population from South Korea, but again that's unlikely to be large enough to be of real significance.

[Lumenous]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

I may be wrong, but I don't think the game is available in any of those countries. China in particular has very strict laws with regard to what can be depicted in video games, to the point that some games get released months or even years late in China because so much content has to be remade to abide by their laws.

[VidPrime]

I may be wrong, but I don't think the game is available in any of those countries. China in particular has very strict laws with regard to what can be depicted in video games, to the point that some games get released months or even years late in China because so much content has to be remade to abide by their laws.

Also I can't imagine North Korea playing at all because they're essentially segregated from the rest of the world in dictatorland

[JerryBoyle]

Why would wikipedia have correct numbers for the population of this game?

[Andevom]

To everyone expressing shock and disbelief to the OP's calculations, he's listing the populations for each country, not the number of people playing the game. Come now, guys, be serious.

The point being made here is the more people your country has that have access to the game, the more players you'll have. Of course, we don't know the exact figures to date, but it's a logical assumption to make. The argument is that there are the same amount of servers for a much larger potential customer pool as there are for the smaller one.

[SecondNature]

Oceanic and SEA players are pretty well organized. We chose our servers a long time in advance. I'd say close to 80% of all our playerbase are on the chose servers which are:

JP- Tonberry and Masamune(legacy) - The majority have chosen to go to the JP servers.
NA/EU - Behemoth.

As such, most of our playerbase is not having most of the issues.. However we are all struggling to fit on those servers. Thousands of which are unable to create new characters for Tonberry.

50 Servers on launch was a joke, and whoever did the research for SE is a clown. GW2, which launched with more players launched with 50 worlds - however each world was in a server cluster of up to 10 overflow servers each and still ran into some congestion(Yes, near 500 servers total). Overflow servers would clone the world, and place players on different servers inside the same world so people could continue to play un-interupted.

Without SE actually confirming how they set up the servers, It is fairly safe to assume it is severely lacking.

What will happen tomorrow when the 300,000+ non-legacy 1.0 players try to come and play the game? I can tell you right now, very few will be playing and a large majority will not give the game a 2nd chance after what happened with 1.0.

[Alhanelem]

jsyk- there are still many english players on JP servers (mainly the Legacy servers), and people from Aus/NZ will likely connect to those as they get a MUCH better ping to them. so while I think the OP is suggesting that they are a part of the likely population on the NA servers, I'd argue they are not.

[Hector]

Im NA and i chose a Jp server (Ridill) for that reason . Id figured they be less people come to JP server guys ive had no issues no lag im golden.

[Lumenous]

Ok, the Wikipedia does not have any of these numbers listed anywhere... In fact, they do not contain any population numbers at all for that matter...

You have failed to back put up your statement, thanks for playing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

[Proteus1]

Wow, some really obtuse people in this thread.

The OP isn't saying that there are hundreds of millions of people playing the game. He's saying that Japan has a population of about 126 million, and FF14 has 25 servers open for the Japanese. North America and the European Union combined have over a billion people, and there are *only* 25 servers for them too. See the problem here?

moot.

not accounting people playing the game,
japan + southeast asia + india has nearly 2 billion population.
excluding china, korea, oceanic region.

As far as I know, the only Asian country that FF14 has been released in is Japan. So, yes, Asia has a huge population in the billions, but unlike in NA/EU, in Asia FF14 it isn't being released region wide across multiple countries, (as far as I know). Again, the FF14 wikipedia article lists Japan as the only Asian country it's been released in. So the Japan servers only have to accommodate the Japanese, where the NA/EU servers have to potentially accommodate many, many more people.

You should put Oceania and the whole South East Asia to the JP servers. China, Korea and other asian countries as-well

Again, I don't think FF14 has been released in those countries yet. Notice how we don't have any Korean or Mandarin/Chinese forums?