only 500k subscribers?

[Yutsimaki]

Better than most MMO's I played. I'm just a little worried because I didn't know about game until I accidentally saw it on a livestream.
If more people knew about game we could boost subscriptions exponentially!!

[Shiki_Lockhart]

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

I LOLed xD

[Aerowaffle]

500k * $13 (assumed minimum) = $6,500,000 per month square enix is pulling in from subscriptions at least.

Things do not need to have WoW-level subscriptions.

Is there enough players for people to have an MMO experience? Yes.
Is there enough money to pay for all the servers and staff? Yes.
Is there enough profit left over to encourage the company to make further developments? Considering we're still getting pretty frequent updates to the game, yes.

[Thayos]

500k * $13 (assumed minimum) = $6,500,000 per month square enix is pulling in from subscriptions at least.

That should be enough to cover the overhead, lol.

[Starlord]

That should be enough to cover the overhead, lol.

Way more than enough :/.

[Delmontyb]

This report is based off of old information taken from March 2014, not even current numbers etc. Just FYI.

[Felis]

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

Because everyone, who play the china version, is a rmt?

[Tiggy]

You clearly don't get how an annual report works.

No I do perfectly well understand what it means. You clearly don't understand that it means the data is old. They report was for there activities up to and ending with that fiscal year. Meaning it has zero data from even 1 day past that. Making it old data. Almost a year old at that.

Basically you're just not realizing that the numbers are in the opening letter dated January 2015 and not in the report that covers FYE 3/31/14.

I can only assume you mean the line "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" in which case that still has nothing to do with the previous fiscal report data that you somehow don't think I comprehend. I find it odd to me that the numbers would be released to MCV at all considering they are tightly held secrets for the most part. Considering also they are in the tens of thousands less than the player estimate I'd also have to say that number is clearly rounded down. To be fair I never said the 500k's is the wrong ballpark number having shared the reddit thread myself that shared a similar number. I simply argue that this is a poor source for valid or even updated info especially considering the only hard data available is actually from that fiscal report. Instead of a real article or an announcement from square we get a tiny blurb in an update on an old article. That doesn't sit well with me.

[Evangela]

It's hard to manage Chinese players anyway. they have their own language (very hard to learn one), they prefer to use their own forums, they have their own social media. If they do RMT on those Chinese internet communities, SE will have a hard time dealing with them.

so it's a good decision to let Chineses have their own separated server (same for Koreans).

[kidvideo]

worse than I thought if it's true

So exactly how many more people do you want to join you for the Hunts? How many more potential early pullers would you like?