only 500k subscribers?

[get0_death_wcc]

Also take into account that doesn't include china's numbers either

[Willo_w]

um, did i not provide a link which also provides a source that says ff14 paying subscribers sits at 500k?

[Elusana_Celah]

Also take into account that doesn't include china's numbers either

That's because SE can't tell the difference between gil sellers and actual players from China.

[Snootles]

Updated: These MMO figures actually come from an original financial report that was filed on March 31st, 2014. Square Enix tells MCV that the actual number of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn paying subscribers sits at 500,000, with over 2.5m registered users. These numbers do not include the game's performance in China, which charges Chinese gamers on a per-minute pay model. A Realm Reborn will launch in Korea in 2015.

So, yes 500k paying subscribers. Not including China. That's a lot of people that aren't included.

[Willo_w]

I just wanted to support the OP as his comment just got ridiculed. As long as I have enough people to play with and SE can continue providing me with a quality game, then i'm happy

[Xystic]

What I really care about is whether or not a MMO is playable with its current subscriber base and FF14 ARR can be easily played with its current subscriber base.

Now if your looking at MMOs like Wildstar in which try to sell large scales raid, or when they were, they required probably a several hundred thousands if not a couple million players like WoW, during vanilla, to just keep such things going but when they had a subscriber base of only a few hundred thousand, that is a problem. FF14 ARR doesn't have anything that massive, so you don't need 10 million players to enjoy this game.

Back in the day, we only had several thousand players on Ragnarok and it was still awesomely enjoyable.

[NargaHuntress]

OP got ridiculed because his post came out in a negative manner. And did not include a source at that. So yeah.

[Kuwagami]

and so what ? As far as I remember, that stills make FFXIV the second most played sub-based MMO on current market.

[StrejdaTom]

Well I certainly wish we had more players. I also tried to bring a few of my friends + leave positive reviews on websites and steam.
But I think this game would be playable with much much less players and that even 0.5M is a nice number for subscription based MMO. Lets hope that expansion will bring more players old and new.

[HumsterMKX]

OMG!! DA HORRA!!! ONRY 500K!!!

So how many paying subs do TOR and ESO currently have?