So, search for total populations...

[TheVedis]

More Japanese players play this game more then NA... >.> Just think how dead the game would be if we had our own servers... lol

its be high during our hours
and completely dead during off hours


i personaly like the well roundedness of multi culture servers

[Neptune]

What I'm seeing in this thread squares with my estimates. I think you can take the primetime population and triple it at most to get the actual active playerbase. People are generally online either morning, afternoon, or night. So I still estimate about 9k faithful free-trial players with a little more right now checking out the patch.

[Drunk-Bandit]

its be high during our hours
and completely dead during off hours


i personaly like the well roundedness of multi culture servers

Oooh that's right... I'm a night owl lol... :P but yea I loved it as well

[TheVedis]

What I'm seeing in this thread squares with my estimates. I think you can take the primetime population and triple it at most to get the actual active playerbase. People are generally online either morning, afternoon, or night. So I still estimate about 9k faithful free-trial players with a little more right now checking out the patch.

you do realize you just counteracted what you said in your own post

most servers are above 1k online during peak hours

thats 19k among 19 servers

3 times that isnt 9k.....

come on neptune, basic math here!

[Neptune]

you do realize you just counteracted what you said in your own post

most servers are above 1k online during peak hours

thats 19k among 19 servers

3 times that isnt 9k.....

come on neptune, basic math here!

Karnak has like 200 players online, lol. That's 600.

[TheVedis]

Karnak has like 200 players online, lol. That's 600.

this isnt their peak hours though is it?

remember, we are talking peak hours

not "now" hours


and 30% of the population beign on at any given time is pretty much rediculous, in order for that to be true everyone would have to be on 8+ hours a day, which just isnt happening, and i can say that with 100% certainty


people like to think the lower numbers are the most accurate, but i think they dont give games enough credit(i can site a few older examples, such as champions online when this issue came up, and due to a server error we actualy saw the true population of the game one night when the servers didnt shard correctly and we all ended up on a single one)


but yeah some servers will ahve lower pops, but the higher pop servers will even those out, which is why i state 1000 players online average during peak hours is a good number to go with

[Betelgeuzah]

These numbers won't be getting any better once billing starts. Again reinforcing why billing now is a mistake. This game seems to be two bad desicions for every good one made. I hope they can make more progess on it in 2012 then they did in 2011.

So the size of the playerbase = how sustainable the upkeep of the service is?

That is wrong on quite many levels, and your logic as a whole is less than stellar.

[DyskoFox]

Melmond @ 7:54 est
1-40: 154
LL Gc: 121
Grid Gc: 118
Ul'dah Gc:129
None: 16

Total: 538

[PandaTaru]

Fabul at around 7PM (EU/Paris timezone) yesterday

124
26
25
191 <- 49~r50
=
366 players

Got curious reading this thread and logged in to check again.

At around 1PM (EU/Paris timezone) today.

177
84
86
191 (jp r50)
66 (en r50)
3 (fr r50)
0 (de r50)
=
607 players

When I logged in Selbina an hour or two after logging out of Fabul yesterday the number of people on was already over 600 without narrowing the number of players r50 online. I doubt they'd allow us to search/find how many people are online again after removing it in a hurry back in December if they didn't have server merge/switch in mind. Once they start charging, the number of chars on the servers will surely even go down even more. Like those with with 7 mules/chars on the same server not renewing or deleting their mules.

[lackofwords]

I think a lot of people are forgetting majority of the player base is JP. So before all the "oh noes" try to get the numbers at JP peak hour instead.
Here is a comparison to just my post earlier.
Not to say these numbers aren't low, I mean back in Oct 2010 I've marked it to be 2400ish world pop around these hours. That means roughly 1000 less, about 42% population drop since then.

Selbina 12/17 8am Eastern
1-10: 66
11-20: 104
21-30: 164
31-40: 172
41-45: 95
46-49: 77
50: 679 (GLA:72, PUG:40, MRD:63, LNC:66, ARC:144, CNJ:173, THM:66, DoH/DoL:58)
Total: 1357

Lvl 50 ratio between JP/EN/FR&DE marked players (language redundancy included)
581:55:48

Selbina 10:30pm Eastern;
1-10: 41
11-20: 79
21-30: 124
31-40: 134
41-45: 85
46-49: 65
50: 413 (50 GLA: 37, 50 PUG: 28, 50 MRD: 38, 50 LNC: 51, 50 ARC: 72, 50 DoM: 133, 50 DoL&DoH: 54)
Total: 941

Lvl 50 ratio between JP/NA/FR&DE marked players (redundancy included)
245:150:17