playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[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...