FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Shurrikhan]

People love to complain about player numbers when it suits them to bolster their own argument but really what difference does it make if there are 1 million or 2 million or 500,000 people playing the game? Does that make the game more fun for your personally to know that there are 1.9mil other people player over only 499,999 thousand?

The number matters for the people at square tasked with making money, but doesn't really matter to players unless it drops to the threshold where the game isn't profitable at all.

It's almost like the enjoyment of multiplayer game depends on having a multitude of players sufficient to play its multiplayer content with, and the chance of accessing said content with a sufficient group in sufficient time scales with the availability of said players.

[Wasselin]

It's almost like the enjoyment of multiplayer game depends on having a multitude of players sufficient to play its multiplayer content with, and the chance of accessing said content with a sufficient group in sufficient time scales with the availability of said players.

That number isn't 2 million players. It's not even 1 million players. Lots of MMOs survive and are fun to play with way less players than that.

[Shurrikhan]

That number isn't 2 million players. It's not even 1 million players. Lots of MMOs survive and are fun to play with way less players than that.

They survive on "far smaller" numbers only when enough of them are playing the same things at the same time.