Quote Originally Posted by Thayos View Post

Those numbers have nothing to do with active subscribers/players.
You were the one who linked it, if those numbers have nothing to do with active players why did you post it, facepalm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...s_time/d2bkr37

These are the numbers, if you believe them or not doesn't make a difference.

Quote Originally Posted by Thayos View Post

If you look back to last year, you'll find similar numbers of people who'd completed the 2.x storyline going into Heavensward.
The decline from 3.0 til now was far bigger than the decline from 2.0 to 2.55

An active player can simply be a sprout which never gets to complete the story because he got bored, can even be a bot or just people who get hyped and come back but quit rather than completing content.

Accept it if you will, the player base of this game is very low.

As for population numbers even worse, population include alts, so no point going that way.