4.25 and beyond

[ShanXiv]

people repeat this but it means nothing if the game was so good and just needed some touch up how would a few small patches to make things better get 490k players to join and stay?(a number to match ff14 arr at its lowest ever) i mean the content was already amazing as you said so what was the big thing that stop people from enjoying the game like you did?

First, you are misleading something.
10K ONLINE players(actually, it was 16k-25k) =/= 10k total players,
there was 800-1500 ONLINE players in my server , (now, it's 1.5k-3k maybe)

16k-25k * 4-5, that's ~70k-100k players were playing XIV 1.2x
1.0 had sold about 500-600k copies? ~15-20% players were keep playing the game

now it's 10m players, but only 490k stay? lol.... that's 4.9%, many people came here, then moved to the next fotm games, and you call this successful?
I think XI had the same amount of players during its prime time.