Is "Traditional" a cop out?

[napalmninja]

Also, keep in mind that while a bunch of people answered the polls, that's all that number is: people who responded to the poll. That doesn't include people playing the game and people who aren't, or people posting on this site.

What do you mean? If you don't mind me asking. It seems to me that your saying that the people who answered the polls are a separate group of people who don't play or post on the site.

I probably misread it though.

[Malakhim]

What do you mean? If you don't mind me asking. It seems to me that your saying that the people who answered the polls are a separate group of people who don't play or post on the site.

I probably misread it though.

My wording wasn't the best... What I mean was that the people responding to the polls don't account for the entire FFXIV playerbase, I.E. There could be thousands of people who bought the game and never saw the poll, or read the lodestone, or cared enough to answer it or aren't playing currently. There could be people posting here that also never saw/answered the polls either. There could even be people who just posted to screw with the results. Given that SE removed the "players currently in server" feature from the game months ago, chances are we'll never know the actual player base size.

I could very well be wrong and that "tens of thousands" that Yoshi pointed out is indicative of the actual player base(although he never said as much), but being that we have a figure of upwards of 600k sales, I doubt it is.

[napalmninja]

My wording wasn't the best... What I mean was that the people responding to the polls don't account for the entire FFXIV playerbase, and given that SE removed the "players currently in server" feature from the game months ago, chances are we'll never know the actual player base size.

I could very well be wrong and that "tens of thousands" that Yoshi pointed out is indicative of the actual player base(although he never said as much), but being that we have a figure of upwards of 600k sales, I doubt it is.

Oh I gotcha, that makes sense now. One thing I do know is that the current player base is definitely less than 600k.

I'm sure that the polls are just a formal way for SE to prioritize what they should do first and that any changes will be decided by them first and foremost.

Besides even if not every person who purchased the game voted those are still pretty substantial numbers and it's really all they have to go by.

[AlexiaKidd]

My wording wasn't the best... What I mean was that the people responding to the polls don't account for the entire FFXIV playerbase, I.E. There could be thousands of people who bought the game and never saw the poll, or read the lodestone, or cared enough to answer it or aren't playing currently. There could be people posting here that also never saw/answered the polls either. There could even be people who just posted to screw with the results. Given that SE removed the "players currently in server" feature from the game months ago, chances are we'll never know the actual player base size.

I could very well be wrong and that "tens of thousands" that Yoshi pointed out is indicative of the actual player base(although he never said as much), but being that we have a figure of upwards of 600k sales, I doubt it is.

In November before they removed the ability to check the server the number of active player was believed to be around the 30-40k mark I believe and it was in pretty steep decline unfortunately and that is the only reason they removed that feature I believe as people were publishing the decline. I don't think even now it is more than that so 10's of thousands of responses could very well be a pretty large chunk of the current player base.