January 9, 2016 Active player census (and savage clear rates)

[StrejdaTom]

Hmm, I didn't expect it to be so bad..
F2P in 1 year? (Yeah, Yoshi said they won't do F2P, but in other interview he said, he would do it if people really wanted it)

[Kaze3434]

So FF got around 200k "active" (lvl60) players world wide, i knew it was low but this low... wow

200k past 3.1 story. you are the third person to miss read that.
"To sum it up a bit :

Lucky Banchou added a new criteria for active players - 'having at least one mount' to not count bots.

With LB's criteria, there are approximately 770k active players, with around 200k have finished 3.1 storyline

Most worlds only have less than 2% A4S clear rate, with only 4 JP worlds having over 2%, and Chocobo standing all by itself with over 5%. In fact NA/EU do not have any world with over 1% rate. But remember, being Gobwalker ownership and not actual clear numbers, the numbers can and will be a bit higher."

[Kai_Lee]

If a NA group was the first world clear of A4 savage, why is there a huge disparity between the NA and JP servers? Are Japanese players really that much better then American players? Are JP servers using some super secret strategy we don't know?

[RickXRolled]

If a NA group was the first world clear of A4 savage, why is there a huge disparity between the NA and JP servers? Are Japanese players really that much better then American players? Are JP servers using some super secret strategy we don't know?

They tend to feel more responsible and improve themselves before engaging in hard content. Most NA players rather blame anyone but themselves and can't be bothered to improve. This leads to the Japanese players having a larger pool of skilled players that can work together to overcome challenges.

[cgbspender]

You don't need to do savage to understand what's wong with people's mentality. Just have a run in the level 60 dungeons or even below.

[RickXRolled]

You don't need to do savage to understand what's wong with people's mentality. Just have a run in the level 60 dungeons or even below.

You are referring to "my 15$" ice maging 10s gcd netflix warriors, I assume?

[myahele]

I wonder if some of the jobs changes affected people decision to continue to sub or not?

Many didn't like the changes of BRD, BLM and DRGs on release.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I wonder if some of the jobs changes affected people decision to continue to sub or not?

Many didn't like the changes of BRD, BLM and DRGs on release.

I think there had to be other factors that was pushing them to quit. There can't be that many people quitting over just the job changes alone.

[enthauptet]

I admit I've been too busy leveling jobs to bother with the 3.1 story yet. (I thought 3.0 was kind of lame so I am not really in a rush to do it for the story)

[RiceisNice]

If people can't be bothered to do 3.1's MSQ...which in itself was also content that was part of 3.1's release....that's concerning. Espesically if one of the strong points of FFXIV is the storyline and presentation.