ARR has 600k subscribers

[Pseudopsia]

This chart shows FFXI peaked at about 550k, it took a few years to get there.


Source: http://mmodata.blogspot.ca/

Edit: Oh I'm at 666 posts. Muhahaha

[Abriael]

Edit: Oh I'm at 666 posts. Muhahaha

Oh boy.

Mind you, the official presentation says they "Broke though" 600k, beating FFXI's peak. It didn't say by how much.

edit: Lol, Pandastirfry beat me to it.

In it's current form, though, the game has very little to offer save for more of the same, repetitive grind, be it Tomestones or otherwise.

You forgot "for those that spend several tens of hours a week grinding", which represent a vast minority in the MMORPG user base and are pretty much inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. There's tons of people that still didn't get a single job to 50, let alone running out of content.