650k sold in first week?

[casker]

All vgchartz SUPPOSEDLY tracks is retail. It does not count people who had 1.0 but didn't buy it (me). It doesn't track digital. It doesn't track SE's official site. I don't think it even tracks amazon. vgchartz is fking worthless tbh, and they make up numbers often, or get their numbers from a "research" firm that will make stuff up as well.

[AranWade]

Currently 1.29 million per this (not counting digital)

The question I have is: are these new box sales, do they include returning players who don't need to pay for the software again?

for PC they are mixing Sells of 1.0 and ARR, i think 1.0 shipped 630k in past

[Dameaus]

250k contious connections is not 250k players who paid for the game

so.... how exactly do you propose that they are in game if they never bought it in the first place?

[alexhatesmil]

so.... how exactly do you propose that they are in game if they never bought it in the first place?

It seems that Jynx wrongly misinterpreted Yoshi-P's 250k player number to mean 250k total players/purchasers, implying that sales were extraordinarily low. What Yoshi-P actually said was that there were 250k simultaneous connections, making the total of number players much higher. Raijin was simply correcting Jynx.

By the way, Yoshi-P's actual number was 325k concurrent connections.

[Shori]

I'd bet real money that plenty of the 'sales' are just bot farms buying up enough licenses for them :/

[Nikki]

In 3 month 60% of the actual players will be gone.

I have same feeling. I keep hearing from players they will play for month but not renew the sub. I have a feeling that population is going to drop a lot.

Also the PC sales don't look all the stellar to me.

[Furio]

My guess is after subs start the total will settle to around a million which is about what FFXI had before things shrank after 8 years.

FFXI in it's peak had half a million subs... Don't make up numbers dude.

[Nikki]

FFXI in it's peak had half a million subs... Don't make up numbers dude.

And majority of those subs were from Asia.

[MeowyWowie]

Why? That is completely accurate. You should check the numbers before you waste any more milk.

http://forums.ffxiclopedia.org/viewt...hp?f=1&t=16794

"Accommodating players in North America, Europe and Japan, FINAL FANTASY XI is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game capable of simultaneous multiplayer cooperation across three different platforms. Now in its sixth year of service, FINAL FANTASY XI has a robust community of 500,000 subscribers and more than 1.7 million player characters from around the world."

Please also note that it passed two million characters in April of 2009, characters, not subs.

Perhaps you should get your facts straight before calling people out on something you obviously know nothing about.