playerbase down 25% in 4 months?

[TirionCrey]

So apparantely someone made a post on the JP forums and made a lodestone crawler to check active players over the last 4 months, they found that around 25% have stopped logging on, even once in the last 4 month period from when they started scanning. Thats a large loss during free mode when they are still updating the game, that means those 25% didn't even bother to log in after updates to check stuff out.

http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?foru...7781898&page=1

Link to the original JP post in that topic.

First, that is old news. Was posted a while ago and if you check the OP, it's from June 17th...

Secnod...that was before 1.18, which is considered the first REAL patch FFXIv ever got...

Third, I saw a LOT of people who quit months ago check back after 1.18 so you're assumption is invalid.

Fourth, a lot of them quit again, but this doesn't change the fact that people are willing to come back once the game is enjoyable and finished.

Fifth, by now everyone knows the games last chance is gonna be the PS3 release, if they don't rush it and get the game in shape and polished before that the PS3 community will bring a chunk of people into the game.