playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[Kallera]

It's hard to stay analytical
in the face of an amorphous mass of
ignorance.

What's the worthy analysis of people demanding this game be shut down against the company's wishes for the franchise?

[zaviermhigo]

Forgetting a e in a word both times, you were so close to spelling it right too. Obsolete. Who says you have to camp nms for hours when someone says they want sky. Have you ever thought they wanted a progression of killing gods, and not the camping. Oh of sky was just waiting and popping, the fight never actually happened, right? Maybe they were talking about fights. He talked about bad drop rates on that stuff, this game does 2-5 mins pops on nms with bad drops why would you even bother writing it when you know they're just going to continue making this game a gimp easy fest for people like you anyway? You guys win cause you whine so hard and incoherently and SE likes that.

[Netherblade]

Im playing this game since closed beta.... and not many of my friends of that phase are still around.
Where it was pretty even back then, the majority now are asian based players, and very little Euro players around where i can see.

Not sure where this is going... but my guess is they either need a major marketing campaign to drag people back in, or let this one go and learn from their mistakes for the next FF MMO....

[Mishow]

Gotta love it when people don't notice a troll trolling them in forums and working them up.

[Renshi]

Funny thing is that the players loss is common f*cking knowledge, and we are discussing about it and getting angry about each other about a thing that we already know what it is and that it could be closed a friggin' month ago!

And then people asks me why I spend less time in the forums...

[GhostInfinity]

I quit around Oct due to work and not enjoying FFXIV's gameplay in general. My work hours lightened up around the time 1.18 and decided to give the game another look and I'm actually enjoying it somewhat. It still has a ways to go imo but it's definately moving in the right direction. I can easily see this game growing by leaps and bounds if the patches keep reflecting what the community wants to see.

[Alexis_Arteme]

There could literally be 0 players and the game would continue into the new year. They decided a year ago that this would be the "new beta". Their objective is to get the game running and in good condition by Christmas, for the "re-launch". If they don't bring back the numbers after that, I would imagine by next Summer it will be gone (or F2P), what have you.

Speculation, but pretty sure I'm accurate. So please, drops in subscribers? Nobody cares, especially S-E.

[Youngblood]

Face it folks, alot of people that have left FFXIV are the old players that either gotten bored of the game or played out all that it had to offer. When mass-scale content gets implimented, at least half or more of those vets will return for sure. I'm sure in a years time a newer player base will dominate over the older one and SE knows this. Old saying goes...out with the old and in with the new, right!?

[Rinsui]

Oh, with the last patch the game definitely has moved into the right direction. No doubt about that. I just fear that it may take another couple of years until an adequate amount of content is implemented, and the remnants of the old system (physical levels, characterless characters due to excessive cross-class skilling) are finally eradicated. Because by then even the graphics will be just "average".

[Murugan]

This thread is old and really not based on much, if anything the population has probably increased at least 25% since 1.18. At least it seems that way on Selbina.