January 9, 2016 Active player census (and savage clear rates)

[Adire]

I play somewhat often but haven't done the 3.1 story.

I only get around to doing MSQ when I have to, the story of the game doesn't draw me in really.

[HalfLegend]

Wow there's a lot more active people on Lich than I thought... huh

Wow, there's a lot less people on Famfrit than I though... damn 0_0

[Keiko_Kumiko]

[QUOTE=Reinha;3522340]"With LB's criteria, there are approximately 770k active players, with around 200k have finished 3.1 storyline" The game is quite heavy on the leveling side according to those numbers.

The second most recent census which I found (8 months ago) had a very similar number of active players:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...y_730k_active/

"733,267 have met the above criterion" (actively playing)

Wow, that's about 10.7 million Dollars income out of 1 game's monthly fee only. That's...kind of lucrative. :/

[Psychosamm]

Yikes, Adamantoise has gone downhill... lol

Savage really screwed up server populations, I know so many people who left the server for greener pastures in Gilgamesh and other larger servers. I think some of the smaller servers could stand to merge together tbh. Addy isn't even in the bottom 15 for population and it feels pretty dead, I can't even imagine the lesser populated ones.

2,200 people at 60... Damn.

[ErzaScarlet77]

from 16k to 5k in a year on gilg. geez.
where did it go wrong?

[Alahra]

I think some of the smaller servers could stand to merge together tbh.

I've been mulling this over lately myself. Mergers are something of a logistical nightmare at present, though, because of how they handled housing. They'd have to devise some way for people to keep the houses and plots they own or else I'm sure a lot of people would be upset, losing their house involuntarily. It's possible the groundwork for this might be set down when they work out how to move houses (which they're doing in preparation for the Ishgard wards).

I think it's something the game probably needs at this point, but going about it...sheesh.

[Kewitt]

Well the fact that doing MSQ I get a bonus almost everyday I'm doing it for my relic... would say a lot of active players don't have 3.1 finish yet.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

Housing could be an easy thing to do, actually.

If we have, say, Mist Wards 1-16, each holding 60 plots, on two different servers, make the merging in server's housing wards become 17-32.

[dinnertime]

I've been playing for almost every day but I haven't done the 3.1 MSQ either, and know others who haven't, too. I see a lot of players progressing to 60 though.

[Alahra]

Housing could be an easy thing to do, actually.

If we have, say, Mist Wards 1-16, each holding 60 plots, on two different servers, make the merging in server's housing wards become 17-32.

In terms of the general concept, sure, it sounds easy. But I'm sure the implementation would be a lot trickier than that. They couldn't even get the recent housing demolishings off without a hitch—they actually stalled out on some servers, So that's something they would have to be very cautious doing, I think, and it would take a lot of prep-work to make sure it went on flawlessly.