They really want this game to be simple...

[Tharian]

They even talked about somewhere along the line trying something like a 4v1 Evolve style, since Yoshida really liked the idea of the pvp design, but of course that's a whiles away.

I don't see that working in this game. The classes as they stand right now just won't really work with the 4v1 style of game play that is used in Evolve simply because the only classes that could realistically fulfill the position that the "Goliath" fills in Evolve is the Tanking Classes and even then a Tanking Class would melt like butter if it had even just 2 DPS Classes barreling down on it with any reliability, not to mention 2 DPS, a Tank, and a Healer or some other party combination targeting it. It just wouldn't be fair to the person fulfilling the "Goliath" Position in any way shape or form unless they got massive buffs to Defense, and Hit Points.

I suppose my answer to your question is that I bothered because I don't doubt that this game could become big in the future

What do you mean "Become Big"? This game already IS Big. Simply put, as of Patch 2.2 this game had over 2 million registered users and an average of 500,000 daily users. That is a staggering number. Granted World of Warcraft beats this figure by about 4.8 million subscribers, but this game still has one of the largest customer bases for a subscription based game in the world.

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[Estevo]

I don't see that working in this game.

Well that's why it would be a whiles away right?

What do you mean "Become Big"? This game already IS Big. Simply put, as of Patch 2.2 this game had over 2 million registered users and an average of 500,000 daily users. That is a staggering number. Granted World of Warcraft beats this figure by about 4.8 million subscribers, but this game still has one of the largest customer bases for a subscription based game in the world.

I just meant become something really special in the mmo world, transcend the limitations blah, blah. I didn't mean for you to twist my words though, let's just forget it and be friends .

[Adamantium]

What do you mean "Become Big"? This game already IS Big. Simply put, as of Patch 2.2 this game had over 2 million registered users and an average of 500,000 daily users. That is a staggering number. Granted World of Warcraft beats this figure by about 4.8 million subscribers, but this game still has one of the largest customer bases for a subscription based game in the world.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but "registered users" doesn't mean they're currently subscribed, but how many accounts have been made. You're comparing the total amount of accounts that have been created on FF14 to the current amount of people subscribed to WoW. If Blizzard released their amount of registered users, we'd all laugh at how small FF14's is.

Hitting 2 million accounts created in today's market isn't anything special. Even Guild Wars 2 touted "2 million copies sold!" within a couple months of release.

[Tharian]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but "registered users" doesn't mean they're currently subscribed, but how many accounts have been made. You're comparing the total amount of accounts that have been created on FF14 to the current amount of people subscribed to WoW. If Blizzard released their amount of registered users, we'd all laugh at how small FF14's is.

Hitting 2 million accounts created in today's market isn't anything special. Even Guild Wars 2 touted "2 million copies sold!" within a couple months of release.

A registered user is a person who is in fact currently subscribed. So yes, 2 million registered users does in fact refer to 2 million currently subscribed people. If they were talking about the number of overall accounts created whether they were currently registered or whether they were inactive at the current time they would have to use the phrase "accounts" instead of "registered users."

[Adamantium]

Snip for space.

Fair enough. My confusion stems from these articles implying that a registered account doesn't mean an actively subscribing account, and also not having been able to find any official statement from SquareEnix on how many subscribers the game has.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04...registrations/
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/16/fi...on-registratio

Edit: Additional GameFAQs topic. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/68760696

[Tharian]

Fair enough. My confusion stems from these articles implying that a registered account doesn't mean an actively subscribing account, and also not having been able to find any official statement from SquareEnix on how many subscribers the game has.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/04...registrations/
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/16/fi...on-registratio

Edit: Additional GameFAQs topic. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/67805...eborn/68760696

Okay, fair enough. I had not read those articles. Still, 500,000 daily log ins is nothing to cry home about.