Quote Originally Posted by Neptune View Post
My own estimate is that there are probably about 100-200 active players on Besaid. About half are English and the other half are Japanese, although I've been seeing a lot less Japanese lately. It's easy to confirm the loss of players just by anecdotal evidence. This is alarming news but there's nothing to do in the game, so it's not that strange.
I can't resist tossing this in there: our linkshell alone has around 40 active players (none from Japan, as far as I know). That's just one shell on the server, so Besaid isn't doing as badly as that.

Quote Originally Posted by rainfish View Post
You think that one server is any different from the rest? It's a snapshot of the playerbase, what is happening on one is more or less happening on them all.
While I think I understand why you made this thread, I have to disagree that the activity on one server should pose as a snapshot of anything. If you were trying to use this figure to illustrate that people are leaving the game, that is not entirely true. Consider this: around 10 of our newer members came from other servers.

So leaving a server =/= leaving the game.

(PS... no need to point out the fact that the game has been hemmorhaging subs. I know this. I'm just saying that this isn't exactly a great example)