2.1 coming in Dec, ARR has 1.5+ million accounts

[AridElf]

It definitely means something. Just not what *you* would like to know.

It means that another half a million players bought the game since Tokyo Game Show, which is a really nice figure for second month sales of a MMORPG.

As for retention, servers look pretty damn crowded to me, so I'm not really worried.

Plenty of people transferring IN to Behemoth too, getting pretty busy here

[TetsuyaHikari]

I'm more curious as to why it says "multiple" new dungeons will be added. Crystal Tower will be added, but I'm pretty sure additional difficulty levels for pre-existing dungeons don't count as new dungeons :3

[Swishytail]

I'm more curious as to why it says "multiple" new dungeons will be added. Crystal Tower will be added, but I'm pretty sure additional difficulty levels for pre-existing dungeons don't count as new dungeons :3

From what I understand, it won't be the exact same dungeons with more HP on enemies. They are supposedly re-doing
them in as a different path with different bosses. I could be wrong. Still not necessarily "new", but "newer" I guess.

Plus on top of Crystal Tower, they are adding Pharos Sirius as a new level 50 dungeon.

[TetsuyaHikari]

From what I understand, it won't be the exact same dungeons with more HP on enemies. They are supposedly re-doing
them in as a different path with different bosses. I could be wrong. Still not necessarily "new", but "newer" I guess.

Plus on top of Crystal Tower, they are adding Pharos Sirius as a new level 50 dungeon.

Oh, right, haha. I totally forgot about Pharos Sirius ><. I guess it's because most people are just talking about Crystal Tower =3=

[Starlord]

From what I understand, it won't be the exact same dungeons with more HP on enemies. They are supposedly re-doing
them in as a different path with different bosses. I could be wrong. Still not necessarily "new", but "newer" I guess.

Plus on top of Crystal Tower, they are adding Pharos Sirius as a new level 50 dungeon.

Same dungeon names with redesign of the old dungeons, with tougher mobs/bosses etc.

[TheMoonflow]

If 500k people bought the game last month.
And a standard edition is $19.99
And if my maths is correct
That's $10 000 000
Not bad for a months wages

[Lithera]

It has been assumed the hard mode dungeons will have new layouts and bosses. This would make them count as new in my opinion. Also the game came out Late August. Devs said updates every 2-3 months. 3 months is last week of Nov. Factor in all the launch BS and a week delay wouldn't be surprising. That would put it first week of Dec.

[DNO]

I'm more curious as to why it says "multiple" new dungeons will be added. Crystal Tower will be added, but I'm pretty sure additional difficulty levels for pre-existing dungeons don't count as new dungeons :3

I disagree 100%.

The difference between titan EM and HM is night and day. I would not count that as 1 battle as the way to beat them are totally different. Need better gear need 4 more people and need new guides to beat him. I expect it to be the same and I think HM to dungeons are a great way to give us more content faster.

[Tiggy]

It's more like how people wanted to disbelieve that FFXI was ever popular or had more than 250k subs ever - WoW always reports 15 mil+ even though they count inactive, dead and trial accounts in their numbers since when you play it, there's a lot of people but it in no way feels like 15-18 million people.

People want to see the actual numbers of active subs, no trolling involved.

FFXI peaked at 500k subs. You're info is clearly incorrect on that basis alone.

[TetsuyaHikari]

I disagree 100%.

The difference between titan EM and HM is night and day. I would not count that as 1 battle as the way to beat them are totally different. Need better gear need 4 more people and need new guides to beat him. I expect it to be the same and I think HM to dungeons are a great way to give us more content faster.

Eh... I honestly wouldn't relate a primal fight to a dungeon. It's apples and oranges, really. I honestly doubt a HM dungeon would actually be drastically different in terms of difficulty, compared to its NM counterpart.