playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[Seif]

People who do the same leve thing every day and say that the game has enough things to do to keep playing seriously creep me out. That just can not be healthy.

SE needs to realize that the staff of XIV haven't done any work in almost a year and people who can get stuff done ASAP need to be hired. There's no way this game will turn into profit at this pace.

[Joeking]

People who do the same leve thing every day and say that the game has enough things to do to keep playing seriously creep me out. That just can not be healthy.

SE needs to realize that the staff of XIV haven't done any work in almost a year and people who can get stuff done ASAP need to be hired. There's no way this game will turn into profit at this pace.

Slow and.. and... and.. Steady wins.... the.. race..

[AeraLucis]

Slow and.. and... and.. Steady wins.... the.. race..

Not if no one else sticks around to watch you cross the finish line.

[Seif]

Slow and slow dies on the way to the start line.

[Zenaku]

i find that wrong in selbina we getting new people everyday i see new people leveing up in every city.

[Aurelia]

On Lindblum the only city with ppl in it is Ul'dah, which really sucks cause I love LL and Gridy, they so purdy
But during the busier times of day ppl are shouting to do a certain set of leves cause they are the best, I would love for SE to spread out the great leves and other things to the other cities so that everyone can enjoy the rest of this game and not just ul'dah over and over til your eyes and ears bleed....
I want to love this game and right now I kinda just like it.

[Rinsui]

Yeah gotcha, but don't say that 25% of the ENTIRE playerbase is down. It leads to miscommunication =)

Hello, I'm the OP of the article posted on Allakhazam (the link on the first page). Actually the numbers are even a bit more misleading - something I tried to explain to Hugus on Allakhazam as well. Let me explain.

Numbers until October 2010 were collected with the /sea all command during a specific time each day (a "one-moment-snapshot"). Numbers after February, however, were accumulated over 24-h-intervals. So it's save to assume that 24-h-interval numbers in October were actually much higher than 2600.

The drop October->February thus was not 2600->2000, but (2600*x)->2000, with x being (24/average number of hours a player stayed logged in in October). If we assume x to be a very exagerated 6, for example, actual 24-h-interval player numbers would have been 10.400 in October. The drop 10.400->2600 is 75%, that's why I said that the additional drop 2600->2000 since February is "positive".


P.S.: The player numbers showed a almost identical drop across servers until October (second link on the Allakhazam page). What makes you think Cornelia, the original No.3, became a "special exception" since then?

[Nipa]

The player numbers showed a almost identical drop across servers until October (second link on the Allakhazam page). What makes you think Cornelia, the original No.3, became a "special exception" since then?

Well, in fact the /sea counting method indicated the connected population at Japanese peak time, while the current method indicates the total server population. If we can most certainly generalize Cornelia case to the whole Japanese population, it may be a bit too direct to do that on the EU and US populations.

I don't know whether Cornelia has a consequent EU and US population. If it's the case, then yes, we can apply its decrease to the whole game population, but if it's not, maybe we have to factor in another unknown parameter.

But well, frankly, I think that EU and US populations are decreasing faster than the JP one (since more knowledgeable of others current MMOs), and thus, in the worst case, the global diminution is worse than on Cornelia...

[darkstarpoet1]

Well, in fact the /sea counting method indicated the connected population at Japanese peak time, while the current method indicates the total server population. If we can most certainly generalize Cornelia case to the whole Japanese population, it may be a bit too direct to do that on the EU and US populations.

I don't know whether Cornelia has a consequent EU and US population. If it's the case, then yes, we can apply its decrease to the whole game population, but if it's not, maybe we have to factor in another unknown parameter.

But well, frankly, I think that EU and US populations are decreasing faster than the JP one (since more knowledgeable of others current MMOs), and thus, in the worst case, the global diminution is worse than on Cornelia...

it's not a hard concept. if the average was the same up til a certain point then unless something drastically changes on that one specific exception then that one should continue in line with the rest. if all of a sudden one server got new content and new gear and people left one server to be there because it had it then, yes, it may be different, but since the same game additions are on all servers it can be reasoned they would follow the same trend.

sure some servers may be losing more than 25% and some may be losing less than 25%, but if they were in line originally within a reasonable limit logically it should continue to do the same.

[Keftenk]

Well, in fact the /sea counting method indicated the connected population at Japanese peak time, while the current method indicates the total server population. If we can most certainly generalize Cornelia case to the whole Japanese population, it may be a bit too direct to do that on the EU and US populations.

I don't know whether Cornelia has a consequent EU and US population. If it's the case, then yes, we can apply its decrease to the whole game population, but if it's not, maybe we have to factor in another unknown parameter.

But well, frankly, I think that EU and US populations are decreasing faster than the JP one (since more knowledgeable of others current MMOs), and thus, in the worst case, the global diminution is worse than on Cornelia...

The EU and US population on Cornelia has always been low, since release. The JP community out numbers us significantly.