They really want this game to be simple...

[Tharian]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but "registered users" doesn't mean they're currently subscribed, but how many accounts have been made. You're comparing the total amount of accounts that have been created on FF14 to the current amount of people subscribed to WoW. If Blizzard released their amount of registered users, we'd all laugh at how small FF14's is.

Hitting 2 million accounts created in today's market isn't anything special. Even Guild Wars 2 touted "2 million copies sold!" within a couple months of release.

A registered user is a person who is in fact currently subscribed. So yes, 2 million registered users does in fact refer to 2 million currently subscribed people. If they were talking about the number of overall accounts created whether they were currently registered or whether they were inactive at the current time they would have to use the phrase "accounts" instead of "registered users."

[Adamantium]

Snip for space.

Fair enough. My confusion stems from these articles implying that a registered account doesn't mean an actively subscribing account, and also not having been able to find any official statement from SquareEnix on how many subscribers the game has.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04...registrations/
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/16/fi...on-registratio

Edit: Additional GameFAQs topic. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/68760696

[Tharian]

Fair enough. My confusion stems from these articles implying that a registered account doesn't mean an actively subscribing account, and also not having been able to find any official statement from SquareEnix on how many subscribers the game has.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04...registrations/
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/16/fi...on-registratio

Edit: Additional GameFAQs topic. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/68760696

Okay, fair enough. I had not read those articles. Still, 500,000 daily log ins is nothing to cry home about.