How many people play FFXIV?

[irongripz]

A steady seller ? A STEADY SELLER ? 1 year and some months later, still not sold 1million copy's.

lol steady failing more like it.

[weeble]

you don't play ffxiv, ffxiv plays you!!

[weeble]

For reference SWTOR has sold almost a million NA pre-orders five weeks from launch. They logged over a million tester hours in a single weekend.

lol just in the 3day stress test, i loged into my first server with a 550 person wait que, then when logging back in cause this was one of the way over populated servers, i was at a 5500 person wait que. i ended up rerolling to a empterier server and it didn't have que's but it was packed with players, every inch of every zone had players running around and 0 problems getting groups, even though the game is something u can pretty much solo. the 4man stuff was fun but way easy. non the less the game will be very fun for something to do while this game shapes up/or dies off without getting my money.lol.

[Anonymoose]

good portion of the community SUPPORTED this measure and tried to justify it by saying it was bad for the community that people should know how our server populations are falling.

What (no offense people) moron thought that was a good idea? "Let's just remove world population view and maybe they won't notice the drastic decrease in players!" ... Except for when Gridania and Limsa are abandoned, all remaining players converge on Ul'dah, the wards are empty, all the shouts are in JPN, and only two rival linkshells exist in each language...

[Coglin]

The old ostrich (head in the sand) technique?

[Lebannen]

Im surprised by how many it is. Lets hope more people join soon.

[Altera]

Saronia is rated as a low populated server when you create a new character and select servers. But I constantly see lots of people around morning, noon and night

[Murugan]

What (no offense people) moron thought that was a good idea? "Let's just remove world population view and maybe they won't notice the drastic decrease in players!" ... Except for when Gridania and Limsa are abandoned, all remaining players converge on Ul'dah, the wards are empty, all the shouts are in JPN, and only two rival linkshells exist in each language...

A world population view never existed. What existed was a truncated area search, which a Japanese player used to create a graph describing the declining population.

The problem was the graph was flawed.

• The person used unverified sampling on many servers from what amounts to random "researchers".
• Failed to get a good sampling of all time zones.
• Observed the population for too short of a period, with limited (and worst of all not even consistent) windows.
  • For example if I did a /sea count on Tuesday every week and you never played on Tuesdays you would not be counted as an active player.
  • Even worse, if I did it at 9pm one Tuesday and then 1 am the next Tuesday after you went to bed my data would show you as "no longer active".

That the population was declining was obvious to everyone, and by attaching these "real numbers" to it people (especially forum trolls) rallied behind it. It (the flawed statistics) became an increasingly distracting issue for the community and so they removed the /sea ability.

They could, and should have instead just struck back at the graph and other spurious claims by pointing out its flaws and releasing more accurate information themselves. However, this was at the point where they were already being forced to admit that FFXIV did not hit its target, were replacing the team, and probably thought this wasn't the conversation they wanted to be having.

There was never an accurate population count released. I for one think that they should release population numbers. They themselves said that they will push towards 2.0 even if no one is playing, I don't see what the harm is in letting us know the total numbers (if not server population) at least until 2.0.

It would either show

• How dedicated they remain to the game despite its low population (which would help the fears of people worried that the game could shut down).
• Growth.

[ChiefCurrahee]

lol just in the 3day stress test, i loged into my first server with a 550 person wait que, then when logging back in cause this was one of the way over populated servers, i was at a 5500 person wait que. i ended up rerolling to a empterier server and it didn't have que's but it was packed with players, every inch of every zone had players running around and 0 problems getting groups, even though the game is something u can pretty much solo. the 4man stuff was fun but way easy. non the less the game will be very fun for something to do while this game shapes up/or dies off without getting my money.lol.

Thank god! This place will be that much better while you play WoW in space.

[Seif]

Well my server is definitely dead and when I re-rolled to Selbina it was just as dead. I think it's just wrong to lie about the current population to other players. Let's hope 2013 brings in more people but if the chocobo's didn't do it I don't think anything can before the 2.0 version and the ps3 release comes around. Until then I hope they realize what kind of difficulties group content places upon the current beta testers that are still on these sparse servers. Server merges in the current situation could only improve the quality of the game. I don't think it's any secret to anyone that the populations aren't what they used to be. Even successful mmo launches always lose a lot of players after launch. But clearly not on this scale.