Is "Traditional" a cop out?

[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.