Yoshi-P on Character Growth

[Kaurie]

actually it is, you can pretend all you want the info on the census means anything but it doesn't.

until se gives us real sub numbers they are all fake numbers.

I really do not understand how you can think this, and it makes it difficult to argue. The numbers are not fake, but I could agree that they are not precise; however, their lack of precision inflates the numbers, so all we know is that they are less than reported.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I really do not understand how you can think this, and it makes it difficult to argue. The numbers are not fake, but I could agree that they are not precise; however, their lack of precision inflates the numbers, so all we know is that they are less than reported.

It could also be greater than reported, as many active players havent cleared the most current patches.

[Kaurie]

It could also be greater than reported, as many active players havent cleared the most current patches.

Wow this thread grows fast. Sorry if this was already stated, but...

The ~600k is not based off of story completion, that number is an added stat. If you look at this image, http://imgur.com/a/c8SEI, you will see 639k active players and 442k completed 2.55, 311k beat 3.1 etc.

Unfortunately, I cannot read Japanese and cannot remember how they calculate the first column.

EDIT: Note this is not the most recent census (I don't think?). This one was ~5 months ago or so.