How many people play FFXIV?

[ChiefCurrahee]

you'll probably hear tons of complaining on how people like you are ruining all mmo's not just this one. no matter what mmo im on i'll always be saying the same things cause as you can see companies like turning all there mmo's into the same copy paste and i think we all have the right to show our concerns.

wait.... you're complaining of MMOs being copy paste, yet you're singing the praises of starwars, which is a blatant rip off of warcraft. Dude take off your blinders and realize what you're so excited for is basically a reskin of a game that came out almost a decade ago.

how many mmo's have you played after it's been out for over a year and half there zones are empty? probably none ..least none that you stayed with.

um...
Lord of the rings
Age of Conan
War Hammer
Aion
Rift

fact the reason they building these mmo's way to easy is for that reason most likely, and why they let people powerlevel and so forth ..push you to where the .. check this out ... "population" is. i was just using swtor as a example of how a mmo should look like for the first few years at the very least. i could of used ffxi, it was packed. the dunes ..i loved the dunes ..party on every piece of sand in the zone, every zone after that the same. people all running from npc to npc's doing quests and missions. all things swtor had and ffxiv has not had since first month.

also maybe you should quit with the insults since it's obvious you have no real constructive criticism outside you being some wannabe white knight that thinks i can't have my own opinions on the matter. Your future is dim, enjoy what you get.

You should hop off that hype wagon you're riding. I'm not saying FFXIV is the best MMO. I'm saying that this community will be better off with out people who nay say the future of FFXIV. Newsflash for ya, FFXIV doesn't need a million subs to be successful. Nope. I'm sure SE will be operating the game at a loss for the majority of it's lifetime. But if they can launch a solid PS3 version and keep true to their vision of 2.0 this game will be just fine with it's own niche crowd. You don't need 11 million other people to tell you: "yes this is the game to play". Guess what I disagree with the 11 million people who are hooked on WoW, it's a POS game.

SWTOR is just like wow. how do i know? I PLAYED THE BETA!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you wanna discuss starwars go do it on their forums, keep that garbage out of here.

[weeble]

wait.... you're complaining of MMOs being copy paste, yet you're singing the praises of starwars, which is a blatant rip off of warcraft. Dude take off your blinders and realize what you're so excited for is basically a reskin of a game that came out almost a decade ago.

stop forcing me to defend a game like swtor, reread my posts in this thread an stop flipping my words around. one excited is a far long cry from anything i've voiced in this thread. two, when i say copy paste i mean..simply.. if one mmo does well others will copy, so i think we all need to voice our opinions on any game your playing. three. who cares if the game was a reskin wow, i already said i never played wow more then 2 months, it's a new game to me. i was only using swtor as a example of population. and reread i also mention ffxi and why i love high populations. also i don't really need to throw facts or defend any game, the numbers talk and it's words say you fail good sir

um...
Lord of the rings
Age of Conan
War Hammer was there from beta, fact this pc is built for this game...if you showed up past the first year you already missed the greatest time the game had. the game went to crap after that. as for the rest i dont' think you stayed cause your hear playing ffxiv less your still playing them you left quick. i played ffxi for 5years and what i was expecting from ffxiv too.

Aion
Rift

You should hop off that hype wagon you're riding. I'm not saying FFXIV is the best MMO. I'm saying that this community will be better off with out people who nay say the future of FFXIV. Newsflash for ya, FFXIV doesn't need a million subs to be successful. Nope. I'm sure SE will be operating the game at a loss for the majority of it's lifetime. But if they can launch a solid PS3 version and keep true to their vision of 2.0 this game will be just fine with it's own niche crowd. You don't need 11 million other people to tell you: "yes this is the game to play". Guess what I disagree with the 11 million people who are hooked on WoW, it's a POS game.

[I]i'm just speaking my opinion, it doesn't matter what you think, playing on empty servers isn't my idea nor the idea of many people who play mmo's, i would rather play 20bucks a month for gamefly if that was what i liked and play offline all day. i don't "need" 11million people to tell me a game is good, i want a game server full of players, and like i said just like ffxi had. this games niche player is people like me, so get off your high horse. [/I]

SWTOR is just like wow. how do i know? I PLAYED THE BETA!!!!!!!!!!!!
[I]that's nice, i been playing this game everyday since it's beta 10+ hrs a day, i'm sure a locust like you that runs threw every mmo that's come out in past few years is just there kind of niche group they looking for.
[/I]
If you wanna discuss starwars go do it on their forums, keep that garbage out of here.

i'll discuss anything i want, where i want. long as i don't screw with the guild lines and obviously i wasn't cause see, this was a thread on server population and that was what i was talking about not how great swtor is ..a game i don't have any intention on playing long term. but like i said i will have way more fun there then on empty servers here. i didn't screw up a launch se did, so keep on galloping away at me cause i remind you that your precious game will probably crash and burn. se don't need you to come to there protection they have mods for that so why don't you stop twisting words and tossing insults where they don't belong.

[Richard_BG]

Bold text and bad grammar is the first sign of frustration.

[weeble]

Bold text and bad grammar is the first sign of frustration.

na it's just lazyness in figuring out how to do different colors, bad grammar cause i'm not an english teacher, nor do i come to the forums to test out what i learned today in class. he trolled all over me, not other way around no matter who is in the right i didn't attack him or his personality nor his lol grammars. if anything he must of been frustrated and not read half the thread and just posted from the 2 words he reads from mine, i think that a bigger sign.

[Atoli]

Uh..why does it seem so hard for most people to stick to the topic?
How about discussing ways of finding out how many players we have instead of arguing over SWTOR's graphics being similar to WoW?

Okay, we all know the number of players in FFXIV has been increasing for a while now, especially since patch 1.18/1.19, and not just people visiting for a few hours/days and going again, but people who really are staying and playing regulary.

We also know numbers wil be falling again next month when FFXIV goes P2P again and we lose the people not willing to pay yet.
So does anyone have an idea on how we could get exact numbers?
Maybe a FFXIV site which is more well-known than FFXIVpads?
Or maybe SE could just tell us? We already know population is just in the tenthousands, so would it really hurt to tell us the current numbers?

[Fear]

If they're coping over FFXI's /search system like Yoshi said then population numbers will be found out soon after 1.20

[Antipika]

Or maybe SE could just tell us? We already know population is just in the tenthousands, so would it really hurt to tell us the current numbers?

I doubt SE will say anything regarding subscribers. They will keep it hidden as long as results are subpar.

We may hear something from SE if XIV reaches a milestone like 500K players or something. They'll never say "hey we got only 80K players" (or w/e exact amount it is).

[Overkill9000]

a lot of my friends and server are playing skyrim right now. i'm thinking of finding something else to do too. i still play ffxiv but my interest is dwindling. i'll keep playing and i'll pay my sub cause i want special gift... but i'm still just kind of biding my time til 2.0.

[ChiefCurrahee]

What does it matter? If the released the population numbers what would you do with it? If there are say 30k subs would you bail? IF there are 200k would you stick around? Is the number that important to people? I'm full aware that when XIV goes P2P we'll see a big dip. At least the people who stay are here for the game, not a free lunch.

@Weeble I'm a fairly loyal gamer. I've been playing FFXI since NA launch still am, I've played Lotro for the first 1.5 years of it's existence, conan for 6 months, War for a year and change, Aion for 6 months, and Rift for 7 months. I've been With FFXIV since Alpha 1. I'll be paying for FFXIV once it goes subs because I want to support the dev team in their efforts. Not because I think currently FFXIV is fantastic, but because I want to see it get there.

So when you come into a thread and say a certain game has a huge population and a ton of content and you're not sticking around here because you've found a better game. I say "Good riddance, we'll be just fine, maybe better off without you. So long, farewell,Auf Wiedersehen, adieu, good bye."

[Crunkjuice]

So when you come into a thread and say a certain game has a huge population and a ton of content and you're not sticking around here because you've found a better game. I get jelly and cry and make long pointless post about nothing

it will be ok take deep long breaths.