playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[Frisque]

My own estimate is that there are probably about 100-200 active players on Besaid. About half are English and the other half are Japanese, although I've been seeing a lot less Japanese lately. It's easy to confirm the loss of players just by anecdotal evidence. This is alarming news but there's nothing to do in the game, so it's not that strange.

I can't resist tossing this in there: our linkshell alone has around 40 active players (none from Japan, as far as I know). That's just one shell on the server, so Besaid isn't doing as badly as that.

You think that one server is any different from the rest? It's a snapshot of the playerbase, what is happening on one is more or less happening on them all.

While I think I understand why you made this thread, I have to disagree that the activity on one server should pose as a snapshot of anything. If you were trying to use this figure to illustrate that people are leaving the game, that is not entirely true. Consider this: around 10 of our newer members came from other servers.

So leaving a server =/= leaving the game.

(PS... no need to point out the fact that the game has been hemmorhaging subs. I know this. I'm just saying that this isn't exactly a great example)

[Neptune]

I can't resist tossing this in there: our linkshell alone has around 40 active players (none from Japan, as far as I know). That's just one shell on the server, so Besaid isn't doing as badly as that.

Actually everybody I know is in 3+ "active" linkshells. So that means out of your 40 players 10-15 are probably in my active linkshells. I wish I had a Venn diagram for this. The remaining 25 or so are probably people I don't know, and that's probably half of the 2/3rds left that I don't know of the 100 or so that I think speak English. I play with about 22 people. What's strange is how decent the economy is with only a couple hundred players.

Out of my original linkshells about 1% of people are logged on. Out of the active linkshells about 5 are logged on, and out of the reformed active linkshells about half are still playing from when it reformed. And none of the reformed active linkshells ever got to 100 players. So based on estimates based on linkshell monitoring, I'd say we're down to about 15,000 players or less, or about 1.5% of the original players. It will keep declining over the next year because of no endgame content. I'd also say for every 10 people that quit 1 joins the game fresh. But then they also quit, lol.