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    Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
    It does depend if a player who actively plays both counts towards both totals. What surprises me most however is how large the Classic population is compared to Retail. Classic is a game that was created by a completely different development team to the current one. It's not a good outlook when your modern, polished game is struggling to keep up with a decade and a half old game made by the Devs you long since fired.
    The issue with this line is that there is no separation between a Retail and a Classic subscription -- it is all one subscription. Basing it off outside math (in this case Reddit) -- doesnt necessarily mean anything when there is no way to validate if a subreddit follower is an active sub. What also constitutes to an active player under the math of MMO-Population?

    It is why it is questionable when MMO-Population has two different metrics for player counting: Top MMO (which supposedly is how many active players) and MMO Growth (which is supposedly the growth of players over 30 days -- both spout two different numbers with MMO Growth being literally the subreddit number just being used to show population count.

    These are the issues that website has when they choose to no longer publish how they get their estimations. Because at the moment, MMO-P shows that FF14 has 2.5 million players but on their Growth page which supposedly shows "Growth in players over a 30 day period" it drops to sub-500k. We can double check and see that the growth number is from the FF14 main subreddit.

    So the main question remains: where is 2.5 million coming from? What is the math they do to achieve that number?
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    Last edited by Y2K21; 06-11-2021 at 02:09 AM.