227 people....

[Zumi]

Just checked my FFXI server for a comparison mid afternoon here 1701
http://i.imgur.com/WwWHq.jpg

Usually peaks at 2500 to 3000+ at night. There is a lot of unhappy players in FFXI too at the moment, with all planned war / mnk nerfs. Lack of new abilities at lv99, and horrible Voidwatch drop rates. Yet people still can't stop playing. Everyone seems pretty jaded on the FFXI forums too lol.

[viion]

yours has not been merged, so yours is likely on the smaller end. My friend who re-joined the game last night did a /sea at 10pn EST and saw 2.6k people on (Asura, which was merged). Also according to the 2011 census that the there is quite a jump at each regions prime time http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../10/index.html

your math say 160k...which is pretty damn close to 200k...which STILL is massive compared to this game. Btw how was i supposed to do "common sense math" without knowing peak #s of all servers? oh wait....thats you just trying to be an arrogant ass...

A server that doesnt merge means it is high because it doesnt require a merge, it has enough people, people merge into this server, making it even higher, and the leastest merge was less than a year ago.

Also there is only 1 prime time for the game itself, doesnt matter about regions, which is always PM>AM JST, it shows it on the wonderful census you showed.

Also dont know what your 2.6k is proving, If there was an average for 2.6k and you doubled it "just to make sure", that'd be roughly 5.2k active players on 16 servers that is 83.2k players, not 200-300k.

Also common-sense-Math is:
- Whats a good unrealistic number of active players: 10k
- How many servers are there? 16

AT MOST 160k, which is not nearly 200k.... cuse its 160k.....40 thousand away from 200k.

[Mamba]

346 ppl on Besaid at 22:20 GMT

[Zanfire]

A server that doesnt merge means it is high because it doesnt require a merge, it has enough people, people merge into this server, making it even higher, and the leastest merge was less than a year ago.

Also there is only 1 prime time for the game itself, doesnt matter about regions, which is always PM>AM JST, it shows it on the wonderful census you showed.

Also dont know what your 2.6k is proving, If there was an average for 2.6k and you doubled it "just to make sure", that'd be roughly 5.2k active players on 16 servers that is 83.2k players, not 200-300k.

Also common-sense-Math is:
- Whats a good unrealistic number of active players: 10k
- How many servers are there? 16

AT MOST 160k, which is not nearly 200k.... cuse its 160k.....40 thousand away from 200k.

even still, WAY more then 30k tops this game has, with people constant complaining about how dead their server is. I quit FFXI because abysea IMO took a dump on the game...but right now, for 3$ more a month, FFXI looks like a hell of a better deal to me...at least it has content.

almost 10 year old game that many people hate because of the changes still 4-5x more players then the new one that has been being fixed for over a year now.

[Issachar]

Expect this thread to get deleted for fear of bad press

[Zumi]

even still, WAY more then 30k tops this game has, with people constant complaining about how dead their server is. I quit FFXI because abysea IMO took a dump on the game...but right now, for 3$ more a month, FFXI looks like a hell of a better deal to me...at least it has content.

almost 10 year old game that many people hate because of the changes still 4-5x more players then the new one that has been being fixed for over a year now.

I think abysea was the best thing to ever happen to FFXI in my opintion. Tons of new gear to work for that was way better then all the old stuff that has been top for 5+ years. You can have top end gear and play really casually with just 1 or 2 friends. Level cap raise, new ultimate empyrean weapons to work toward. Gave players tons of new stuff to do.

[Charismatic]

I think abysea was the best thing to ever happen to FFXI in my opintion. Tons of new gear to work for that was way better then all the old stuff that has been top for 5+ years. You can have top end gear and play really casually with just 1 or 2 friends. Level cap raise, new ultimate empyrean weapons to work toward. Gave players tons of new stuff to do.

Abyssea only killed the game due to the expectations it creates.
Honestly, if FFXI devs could keep pumping out Abyssea style content every few months (which they apparently are not able to do) then it would be okay... but AFTER something like Abyssea going back to the old style with sidegrades galore, things just aren't looking pretty.

(also voidwatch has a terrible loot distribution system... its about as bad as Ifrit/Moogle, in fact it isn't very different)

[Eldaena]

wow there is 227 people logged onto bodum server right now. I cant see paying to play a game with this little people that play it. What a joke

111 players online including you. I guess you caved in. lol

[viion]

even still, WAY more then 30k tops this game has, with people constant complaining about how dead their server is. I quit FFXI because abysea IMO took a dump on the game...but right now, for 3$ more a month, FFXI looks like a hell of a better deal to me...at least it has content.

almost 10 year old game that many people hate because of the changes still 4-5x more players then the new one that has been being fixed for over a year now.

Not to mention XI can handle 3-4k players where XIV hits 1.5k and the UI becomes unusable due to lag lolz that was fun back in 2010 XD

But yes, I agree. Hell im playing XI right now =D and my XIV is inactive/unpaid.

And for 1 simple reason: Content.

[Felis]

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