After reading some of these posts, I have to agree that sales and retention are two different things though.

The game's sales numbers are definitely pretty good, and its media reception was overall well-received.

It's really too early to say that this game is "dying" since its technically in month two of its release. I think a better time to accurately revise retention number would be in 6 months. I only hope it doesn't end up like TERA where after 3 months the population died by a lot, and it ended up just being an overhyped next-gen MMORPG.

One thing, however, I will note is that a lot of the early and mid-level FATE areas that people used to do has decreased by a lot since the game launched. I feel bad for new players who will be entering this game at a later time, especially if these areas become ghost towns - which they eventually do like most MMORPGs because everyone is at end game already lol.