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

[Clockworks]

We know the Japanese player base is predominantly console, for one. The console numbers could be completely different because of regional behaviors. All that can really be assessed from looking at Steam numbers are the behaviors of those who use the Steam platform. And that has gone down after they started making us tie our accounts to our Steam accounts. So it's an even smaller amount of players to base behavior for the entire player base on now. Not to mention XIV is on XBox, so you have two consoles adding to those numbers.

So you are still willing to die on that hill that people on console or standalone somehow are different human beings with different behaviors and ways of playing games

Interesting.

But no, that's not how samples work, you dont need statistics from every platform to have a sample of the game's health.

[TaleraRistain]

So you are still willing to die on that hill that people on console or standalone somehow are different human beings with different behaviors and ways of playing games

Except we already know there's a difference between JP and NA. JP tend to do the content more out of respect for the devs putting it out. So they try things more than NA does. NA tends to do only what they like more. I don't know what JP subbing habits are, but NA has a large tendency to unsub until the next thing they want to do comes along. If Steam's usage has a regional majority, then you may see behavior in those players that is different and could skew the data.

[Dante131]

Except we already know there's a difference between JP and NA. JP tend to do the content more out of respect for the devs putting it out. So they try things more than NA does. NA tends to do only what they like more. I don't know what JP subbing habits are, but NA has a large tendency to unsub until the next thing they want to do comes along. If Steam's usage has a regional majority, then you may see behavior in those players that is different and could skew the data.

they are respecting it so hard that red dots appear on the screen just jokeing.