Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW!

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Your using numbers wrong. 500,000 is the number of players they had paying a subscription at one time at it's peak, which was a higher subscription than this game has and every month not once every 6 months when a big patch gets released. Last time i checked people were only estimating about the same size population for FFXIV.

Yep every sub based games nowadays sports the registered users example. All that means is people who have bought the game. That has nothing to do with how many sub and for how long. Xbox stopped posting their numbers as soon as Sony started outselling 2-1.
http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/12/th...-restrictions/



http://www.alistdaily.com/digital/su...ch-20-billion/

I am not saying SE didn't make a good game or that F2P is better or that SE should go F2P. Just saying subscription based games do not bring in as much dough as F2P. The argument against this would be people saying sub is guaranteed money. Which I think is true in this case. XIV has more content updates than most games. But the amount of content isn't what is being debated here. It's the quality and depth of it.

If a company was confident and proud of sub based numbers they would openly post that. WoW still post their numbers even if the sub base has dropped by half.