Quote Originally Posted by Stanelis View Post
Gearing with horizontal progression works really well with a diablo 3 (or FFXI) style of itemization, eg items that alter how your spells work. It wouldn't work very well in FFXIV, where gears only have flat stats increase on them. But well, glamour could be the point.



FFXI had like 700 k subscribers back in 2006, which is the same amount that FFXIV had in april 2015 (last time we had numbers).
Don't think they've ever given subscriber count for 14, only accounts registered.