ARR has 600k subscribers

[Starlord]

I'm curious how they sold 1.5 million copies, and only have 600k subscribers though.

In any MMO, Launch ( Honeymoon phase), has a HUGE spike uprise in players until about the end of the free trial. After that, they don't wanna pay for the subscription for various reasons:

1) They hate the thought of paying for a sub for a game that they own
2) Some people just won't like the game
3) Rushers ( Get to max have nothing to do and quit for a time or perhaps forever)
4) Community/Experience with the Community (either in a good or bad way will determine if they will stay or not, especially if they are new to MMOs)

And so on, for the subs to be at 600k when they were only foreseeing only like 250k is a very big triumph for a game that was on the verge of defeat.

They have 350k more subs then they were originally planning for. In a manner of speaking, they have a lot of sub room to work with!

[Felis]

That's awesome news. The dedication SE has shown to this game deserves to be rewarded IMO. I'm curious how they sold 1.5 million copies, and only have 600k subscribers though.

I think 600k is more a record mark for SE, set by FF XI. And FF XIV broke this record. So it is more than 600k

It’s also mentioned that the number of paying subscibers “broke through” 600,000, surpassing the peak amount attained by its predecessor, Final Fantasy XI.

[Abriael]

I think 600k is more a record mark for SE, set by FF XI. And FF XIV broke this record. So it is more than 600k

That's exactly what it looks like. It's not very realistic to expect precise subscriber numbers this early after launch, especially in a financial results slide relative to one month after launch.

[Laf]

Cool... now fix goddamned game and add content faster, thanks.

[Divinemight]

Not sure why people like to compare FF14 to WoW by using subscription. Yoship make it pretty clealy with SE's forecast playerbase for FF14. They only want to pass FF11 and that is why they have hard time with their launch.

[Yagrush]

Guys, the 1.5mil number is counting from the 1.0 days, so its 600k Subs from the 1.5 mil units sold since Sept 30, 2010. Perspective is important.

[Reslin]

Guys, the 1.5mil number is counting from the 1.0 days, so its 600k Subs from the 1.5 mil units sold since Sept 30, 2010. Perspective is important.

No it isn't. There was 1.5 million people that signed up for the beta alone. On it's re-release they sold out in nearly all retailers the pc version. The digital version had to be completely suspended because of how many people bought the game. Source..

http://zantetsuken.net/news/press-re...ed-1-5-million

"Square Enix recently sent out a press release revealing that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has exceeded 1.5 million registered accounts since its launch 2 months ago. Given the information we received at Tokyo Game Show 2013, FFXIV has added more than 500,000 accounts in a month’s time."

[Bufkus]

Guys, the 1.5mil number is counting from the 1.0 days, so its 600k Subs from the 1.5 mil units sold since Sept 30, 2010. Perspective is important.

Except that is not the case at all. It's only ARR numbers.

[Tupsi]

Guys, the 1.5mil number is counting from the 1.0 days, so its 600k Subs from the 1.5 mil units sold since Sept 30, 2010. Perspective is important.

iirc XIV 1.0 sold about 625k copies then as well. Hopefully they speed up content updates after 2.1 - I mean, FFXI releases updates almost every month even in small/medium, so hopefully after this "bump" it goes a lot faster since it was supposed to be the larger content additions every x months but smaller updates in between.

[Reslin]

iirc XIV 1.0 sold about 625k copies then as well. Hopefully they speed up content updates after 2.1 - I mean, FFXI releases updates almost every month even in small/medium, so hopefully after this "bump" it goes a lot faster since it was supposed to be the larger content additions every x months but smaller updates in between.

Spoiler alert. Yagrush was wrong. They don't count 1.0 units.