Famitsu interview with Yoshi

[Kosmos992k]

Wasn't it the same with Iceheart too?

I believe it was.

I really, really wish we had the choice between the more direct translation from JP to EN and the Localized EN version when choosing which dialog should appear during cutscenes. If you play with Japanese language cut scene audio, the localized text doesn't always make sense, so it would be wonderful if we could choose to have the translation that's more directly related to what's being spoken by the characters.

[Cluebilly]

I believe it was.

I really, really wish we had the choice between the more direct translation from JP to EN and the Localized EN version when choosing which dialog should appear during cutscenes. If you play with Japanese language cut scene audio, the localized text doesn't always make sense, so it would be wonderful if we could choose to have the translation that's more directly related to what's being spoken by the characters.

I can agree with that to a degree. It kind of reminds me of the whole Nael thing. Though that one is something I won't go on about further.

[Phyllo]

He's not a perv, he just has some sort of heavy obsession on the wol.

[Antanias]

Did I misread, or did that interview say they officially support Windows 10? If so, I missed that announcement.

[silentwindfr]

i'm the only one bothered by the fact that Yoshida did admit that they was unable to offer enough instance of diadem?
i means with a game for 4 million + people (as they have said) isn't normal to expect high congestion and to have the hardware ready for it?

i have the feeling the game don't receive the support he need, maybe explain why a lot of the content release seems halfassed soo far.... between the lack of manpower and hardware we can't expect them to do miracle, but still i'm bothered by the fact that every month they get more of 40.000.000 euro (and i'm sure i under estimate how much they get) even if we count the maintenance and support team for 10.000.000 (what is far too much) where go the other 30.000.000. i can understand that the society get them but don't they can reinvest a bit into the game? i means god with the cash they get per month can't we expect a better support of SE to the dev?

with 4 million people paying the 10 euro account for one years it's more of 480 million per years, i can't fathom why the team can't get a better support from the HQ with this much cash flowing... even if we take out the 120 million of support and stuff like this, i can't understand where go the 360 million...

[Cheraa]

i'm the only one bothered by the fact that Yoshida did admit that they was unable to offer enough instance of diadem?
i means with a game for 4 million + people (as they have said) isn't normal to expect high congestion and to have the hardware ready for it?

.... between the lack of manpower and hardware we can't expect them to do miracle, but still i'm bothered by the fact that every month they get more of 40.000.000 euro (and i'm sure i under estimate how much they get) even if we count the maintenance and support team for 10.000.000 (what is far too much) where go the other 30.000.000. i can understand that the society get them but don't they can reinvest a bit into the game? i means god with the cash they get per month can't we expect a better support of SE to the dev?

FF XIV don't have 4 Million active players. It is said to be 4 Million Accounts. Active player are estimated to be around 400k-500k. Means an earning of ~5.5 Million Euro. Now subtract taxes, Salary, Server leasing, services, Development of Content and Expansions, Services, Translation and ofc. profit.

[Kosmos992k]

FF XIV don't have 4 Million active players. It is said to be 4 Million Accounts. Active player are estimated to be around 400k-500k. Means an earning of ~5.5 Million Euro. Now subtract taxes, Salary, Server leasing, services, Development of Content and Expansions, Services, Translation and ofc. profit.

They say over 5 million accounts (actually I think it says 5.5 million on one of the more recent things I've seen), not 4 million. I'm not sure about the active player estimates, 400-500k might be an underestimate of the active player-base if it's not SE's own data on concurrent users. A lot of the metrics used by third parties to gauge player activity are based on progression content, which depending on the type of player may not be a good indicator of activity. They also scrape the Lodestone for the data, and data scraping from websites is not always the most reliable way to obtain information.

For example, I doubt my character counts as active on many of those 'counts' and yet I'm on almost every day for a couple of hours at least. But because I don't run progression content, I'm unlikely to trigger many (if any) of the conditions third party 'surveys' use to determine activity. I know I am not alone in this.

Also, has anyone ever tried to count up all the accounts permanently disabled because of RMT or other illegal activity? If you go through those weekly reports I'd guess that we are *well* past half a million accounts that have been listed as being permanently banned from the game. In an ideal world, I'd hope that their number of accounts that they tout would *not* include those RMT accounts that they have identified and taken action against. This is not an ideal world however, so I don't know if they exclude known RMT accounts from the number of user accounts that they claim.

Hmmm... am I the only one who thought of "Oh hey, personal housing?"

No, but it depends on how many instances within instances their architecture is designed to handle.

[Kuwagami]

snip

The counting is done with public informations one cannot hide. Levelling up, getting minions and mounts, etc... gathered on characters that are above lv20-ish over 2 month or so. This is actually way more accurate than anything else we an have actually as SE refuses to give real data.

The last estimation was about 650k players iirc.

[Kosmos992k]

The counting is done with public informations one cannot hide. Levelling up, getting minions and mounts, etc... gathered on characters that are above lv20-ish over 2 month or so. This is actually way more accurate than anything else we an have actually as SE refuses to give real data.

The last estimation was about 650k players iirc.

I know it's public data, I also know it's scraped from the Lodestone. I'm just saying that the numbers may be an under-estimate because it's difficult to gauge activity of players who are not progression minded, and take their time. I guess it depends on the kind of depth that they go to when obtaining their data. If they obtain the class page from your character summary information on Lodestone, and keep the previous record for a comparison, then they could even compare the number of XP, not just the levels. If they are going to that kind of dept than any concerns I have had in the past would be gone.

[Magis]

Some number scrapped from lodestone:

Total Player Characters: 7,819,881
PCs with at least one class at 50: 1,324,414
PCs with at least one class at 60: 385,651

From https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ta_and_charts/

This doesn't include people who are leveling pre-lvl 55 of course, but it puts a dire picture on end-game if there are only 386K people to choose from (not counting the regional splits). Also one's experience on how the game is perceived at end-game may change depending on what server they roll on:

(Graph is level 60's only)



http://i.imgur.com/qupGctE.png

It is too bad SE doesn't publish proper data making us rely on the loadstone... however I do think it's accurate for the majority of players. 90% of the content is done at end-game, so using "how many level 60s are there" is a good way to judge how population numbers would effect a level 60 player.