Famitsu interview with Yoshi

[Magis]

Some number scrapped from lodestone:

Total Player Characters: 7,819,881
PCs with at least one class at 50: 1,324,414
PCs with at least one class at 60: 385,651

From https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ta_and_charts/

This doesn't include people who are leveling pre-lvl 55 of course, but it puts a dire picture on end-game if there are only 386K people to choose from (not counting the regional splits). Also one's experience on how the game is perceived at end-game may change depending on what server they roll on:

(Graph is level 60's only)



http://i.imgur.com/qupGctE.png

It is too bad SE doesn't publish proper data making us rely on the loadstone... however I do think it's accurate for the majority of players. 90% of the content is done at end-game, so using "how many level 60s are there" is a good way to judge how population numbers would effect a level 60 player.