Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[Musashidon]

Except this census is not made up. They've specifically stated how the data is accumulated. For you to compare it to a fake graph is asinine.

yes and i read it but i didn't see it saying anything about reading the total number of players subbed each month for the last 7 months just some random numbers generated by using a few filters.

[zosia]

yes and i read it but i didn't see it saying anything about reading the total number of players subbed each month for the last 7 months just some random numbers generated by using a few filters.

lol, the numbers were not random. The source explains what each number is and how they arrived at it. It shows the number of active characters that have played month to month. This seven month notion comes from simply looking at the 1st month player activity dipped and contrasting it with the most recent month. This is not some hand wavy BS like you are trying to make it seem. You are setting up an impossible standard for proof since SE has not nor ever will release the actual number of active subs. This is the best we will ever get, and from the data we have, the game is in terrible shape.

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Yet somehow this game is still going strong despite it, with SE clearly making enough money from the game to run a FFXIV themed cafe in Tokyo to boot! /sarcasm

I think it's pretty telling that this so-called 'census' is nothing but chocobo dung not to be taken seriously, just like this same tired Chicken-Little mentality about the game 'dying' that keeps being spouted over and over again (since long before launch actually - really this game should have died half a dozen times by now if the doomsayers are to be believed).

The game is not failing, sure it can be improved, but articulating 'room for improvement' as 'the game is dying because not everyone is logging in 24/7/doing endgame stuff!' only invalidates the whole arguement.

But I've said enough on this subject already so I'm tired of repeating myself.

Says the guy on balmung. lol. Why don't you just move to gilgamesh and tell me how this game is so well populated.

It's really not going that strong, Maybe on one of the few mega servers, but on any average server, the market boards are stagnate, towns are empty, housing wards are lifeless, and party finder is way less active than it used to be.

Then stop repeating yourself, arguing on the internet is a pointless endeavor, especially on these forums. Not to mention very few people care. I don't delude myself into thinking I am accomplishing anything here, you should embrace that. Just enjoy the schadenfreude and enjoy the dumpster fire that the active amount of subs has become.