Can someone clarify this " less than 1mill subs"

[Mature]

Polygon at it. Can somone just clarify this. I can\\'t believe this game got less than 1 million active users

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/2/7480177/square-enix-final-fantasy-14-final-fantasy-11-dragon-quest-10-subscribers

Three major MMO titles - Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn which began operation last August, Dragon Quest 10, which was launched in August 2012, and Final Fantasy 11, which has entered its thirteenth year of operation-maintain nearly 1,000,000 paying subscribers all together, and have established a solid revenue base," reads a statement from president and representative director Yosuke Matsuda.

In 2013, Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn reached more than 1.5 million registered users worldwide; however, at the time it was still unclear how many of those 1.5 million users are actively playing the game, as opposed to those who registered in its previous life.

[Miitan]

This is for the 2013-2014 fiscal year.

[Ghishlain]

Read the article in full, that quote was from a financial report that was made for March 31, 2014. The numbers have most certainly changed significantly since then thanks to more exposure and the release of Chinese servers.

How they've exactly changed? Who's to say but S-E themselves.

[Meier]

Read the article in full, that quote was from a financial report that was made for March 31, 2014. The numbers have most certainly changed significantly since then thanks to more exposure and the release of Chinese servers.

How they've exactly changed? Who's to say but S-E themselves.

But the game is not doing well in China at all...

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...oing_in_china/

o.O

However, that report is for last year, and when the game was down lol...hence why it says March 2014, Polygon corrected it.

In short, the game is doing fine, pretty well actually! The entire fiscal year does not count for 4 months when the game was down (From March 31st to Launch), since the game was launched in late Aug/Early September 2013, thus making that report cover only 8 months out of the 12 months.

[Exodus-E]

Note the (recent) change in the title: it's based on a report from March 31, 2014.

So yeah...bad journalism at its finest.

[Elazu]

Note the (recent) change in the title: it's based on a report from March 31, 2014.

So yeah...bad journalism at its finest.

Just Polygon being Polygon.

[Deathscythe343]

Note the (recent) change in the title: it's based on a report from March 31, 2014.

So yeah...bad journalism at its finest.

Not necessarily. Their article might have just used the last known published numbers for the game. Yes, those numbers could be more or less.

[Amiantos]

Note the (recent) change in the title: it's based on a report from March 31, 2014.

So yeah...bad journalism at its finest.

It's Polygon what do you expect.

[ApolloGenX]

Look at

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/...and-the-future

Mitsuda made the 1 million comment this week.

It's not "just Polygon". It's SEs own words.

Mitsuda is talking about the CURRENT state of things... he did not qualify with "LAST YEAR" they were at a million and rising.

He was very clearly managing the expectations that the previous report had set. There's nothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean the game is failing. SE does have to be honest about the state of the game, though. They set revenue expectations with the last report, and when those don't materialize at the level they set, people need to know why. In this case, they didn't have a way to track active users effectively, and now they do.

[Malevicton]

Look at

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/...and-the-future

Mitsuda made the 1 million comment this week.

It's not "just Polygon". It's SEs own words.

Mitsuda is talking about the CURRENT state of things... he did not qualify with "LAST YEAR" they were at a million and rising.

He was very clearly managing the expectations that the previous report had set. There's nothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean the game is failing. SE does have to be honest about the state of the game, though. They set revenue expectations with the last report, and when those don't materialize at the level they set, people need to know why. In this case, they didn't have a way to track active users effectively, and now they do.

Idk man, the closest thing in the article to subs was "Matsuda goes on to play the importance of the company’s MMO presence in Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X, along with Final Fantasy XI, which is now in its thirteenth year. All three MMOs attract over 1,000,000 paying members each month, resulting in what Masuda refers to as a 'solid revenue base.'" The wording is very (almost intentionally) ambiguous; represents 3 MMO's with one number, and "attracts x paying subs" could mean a lot of things. Also, only the "solid revenue base" part was from Matsuda, the rest of the estimates were from ign. Also, the paragraph right before the one I quoted does have a quote from Matsuda saying that their numbers are pulled from the March 2014 report; ign doesn't specify whether their numbers are from a different source or not. The game may or may not be at 1 mil subs, but so far every source I've seen is still just using the 2014 information. Let's just wait for March 2015 and see what happens.