Quote Originally Posted by Kahnha View Post
Tbth with you IK nothing about the logistics but I do know they do not want to lose subscribers 270k players were using the plug in that's paying square at least 2.9 million if just a small fraction of that broke off because of lack of plugs square would hate that, personally I want square to do well and I want the game to be healthy it is my favorite mmo after all.

I'd also like to point out that the viera that was talking silly removed his hat, those hats were still a mistake you're on fraud watch pal.
Did all 270k actively use it, though?
Or did part of them have left the game already at some point in the past anyway, and some other part set it up and maybe used it once and then forgot about it?
That's a genuine question, because I don't know. I know that your point goes off from the other person saying they'd like see all those player gone, but still, if we're trying to be realistic, is the total count of players that registered for it truly representative of how many people used it on a day-to-day basis?

That said, I feel like people still vastly overstimate how many people will geniunely leave the game for good over Mare being taken down, considering modding as a whole didn't go anywhere, and also considering a lot of people actually do understand that using plug-ins is a "privelege" and that they're not owed it.
There's also a chance that is much higher than zero that some players will take a break and then come back. We've seen plenty of times even on forum how people say "I'm leaving the game", but then keep posting on here, meaning they didn't, in fact, leave (because you need an active subscription and to log in at least once in last couple of weeks. I know because I was offline for about a month once due to health issues, and then when I tried to post, the forum knocked me off with a "uhhmm sorry looks like you weren't online in the game lately, try again later" message).