Other polls outside of the lodestone actually show more of a 66% retention loss. It might mean there is a higher concentration of SquareEnix fans on the forums and FFXIV fans outside of the forums. It could also just be representative of people who want the game to succeed but haven't logged into the game within the last 30 days outside of this forum.

Basically what's going to happen is a large chunk of players won't be playing anymore, and the economy is going to go down, down, down, down.

February will see a boost to subscriptions, but maybe only for that one month.

Out of my linkshell of about 10 active players only 1 is committed to subscribing. I have a feeling we skew away from what will be normal, but it's still telling.