Quote Originally Posted by DawnSolaria View Post
Its not sad nor did they lie to people, they clearly stated that its registered account.
If you open up a store, would you tell potential and paying customer that there are X amount to people come in daily but only about 1/10 of that X amount bought stuffs? Most likely not.
I think what he means is that companies like SE and Blizzard flaunt the "registered accounts" figure when we know very well that a sizable number of accounts were either RMT farmers, or people who tried the game and left after a few days of play. It is a little irritating that they often only use the largest number (because it sounds good) when players like myself are genuinely curious as to how many actual subscribing players are in the world with us.

For a while, Blizzard was using the "10 million subscribers" claim, which was cool when you consider just how much of the population is playing the game with you. "X million accounts" doesn't have the same resonance with me, since we know a majority of those accounts aren't being used at any moment. I mean, even I have had more than one FFXIV account, and probably 3 or 4 FFXI accounts.