How many people play FFXIV?

[Blarp]

Thank god! This place will be that much better while you play WoW in space.

At least I'll have a mailbox. Oh, and content.

[viion]

Good to hear some XIVPads Chatter.

My site can only reflect stats that has members. So more the merrier etc. There are a good amount of characters that likely dont exist, but out of the 8.8k that there is on atm, 7.5k i think have been updated since 1.18 so that gives us a nice perspective of activity.

But then if you compare my characters to say FFXIVPro, Pro has 380434, (shit jealous) characters added to it. (http://www.ffxivpro.com/achievements?st=380430), So that is another figure to goo off.

Another one is each character has an ID number, this used to be 7 digits long back around release but by around April characters started having 8 digits long. I dont know how these work because they are not incremental but something in the system has made all new characters have an id that is 8 digits, 7 digits would max out at 9,999,999 thats 10million characters. Which we all know there hasnt been and after trying to do a script to parse, after like 1000 numbers i'd say I got about 200 chars. So how it works, who knows. But now we have 99,999,999 as the max ID number.

One way I think is pretty accurate is:
Producer Letter "View" count
FFXIV Youtube video "View" count

If you balance out the 2 factors:
People who dont play watching the video / read the post
vs
People who play and didn't watch video / read post else where (unofficial site)

From this you can kind of "Grasp" the population.
The most recent is:
- 18,537 (English)
- 28,187 (JP)

I ignore GR/FR, you guys get like 10 hits lol.

There is also "visual" factors you can take into account
Uldah looks Busy!
Limsa/Grid is dead
Camps Taken!
No one doing anything else

In the end, if the game is doing well enough to recieve a full overhaul of an entire new game (v2) and is ran free for a whole year and now are planning subscription, I don't think SE is to worried, so neither should you =)

Hope it helps.

[Mamba]

Thanks everyone for yuor encouraging posts I definately think FFXIV is doing well at the moment and quite frankly I don't even want more people to Uldah... (to other areas yes!)

And to this post I say... I wasn't lying, there's loads of people in Besaid

Well my server is definitely dead and when I re-rolled to Selbina it was just as dead. I think it's just wrong to lie about the current population to other players. Let's hope 2013 brings in more people but if the chocobo's didn't do it I don't think anything can before the 2.0 version and the ps3 release comes around. Until then I hope they realize what kind of difficulties group content places upon the current beta testers that are still on these sparse servers. Server merges in the current situation could only improve the quality of the game. I don't think it's any secret to anyone that the populations aren't what they used to be. Even successful mmo launches always lose a lot of players after launch. But clearly not on this scale.

[Exni]

Well my server is definitely dead and when I re-rolled to Selbina it was just as dead. I think it's just wrong to lie about the current population to other players. Let's hope 2013 brings in more people but if the chocobo's didn't do it I don't think anything can before the 2.0 version and the ps3 release comes around. Until then I hope they realize what kind of difficulties group content places upon the current beta testers that are still on these sparse servers. Server merges in the current situation could only improve the quality of the game. I don't think it's any secret to anyone that the populations aren't what they used to be. Even successful mmo launches always lose a lot of players after launch. But clearly not on this scale.

I have no clue what your even talking about.. the population on the 2 servers I've been on are more populated now than they ever were. As others have said, recently it's becoming more and more of an issue just having to compete for camps, and it's pretty quick (sometimes practically instant) to create parties. We definetly don't need a server merge on Mysida, but perhaps there are some dead servers out there still.. though yours is the first I've heard in awhile.

Beta testers? Really? Ah I see, so you're just one of the bitter ones...

[Bahn]

At least I'll have a mailbox. Oh, and content.

You forget: a good UI, the ability to use right click on anything you want to interact with the world, full voice acting, solo AND group friendly content, a protagonist that isn't silent and has speech options, text speech that isn't written like Shakespearean language, quick and snappy responses to actions, more players...

[Bahn]

Saronia is rated as a low populated server when you create a new character and select servers. But I constantly see lots of people around morning, noon and night

That's perception. It has a steady player base, but it doesn't have a BIG player base. I consistently see lots of people all day on Saronia too, but it's a lot of the same older players, with a few new faces here and there.

Basically, there's no sugarcoating about it - Saronia is a low population server and IMO needs to be merged with a bigger server. What's keeping me from moving to a densely populated server is that I enjoy the company of my two teammates and me not wanting to have to go through the crap of re-doing EVERYTHING tedious about this game (GC chocobo, story quests, class quests, etc)

[Omniel]

There are more people playing Final Fantasy III than XIV.

[irongripz]

I have no clue what your even talking about..
Beta testers? Really? Ah I see, so you're just one of the bitter ones...

you have no clue at all, if it was sold in a box im sure you still would not be able to find it.
Perhaps? Really? Ah i see you are one of them blind ones...

[weeble]

Thank god! This place will be that much better while you play WoW in space.

i only played wow for 2 months so i don't think that would be a problem for me(new), the bigger thing is population and content. and while u keep thinking the game will be better without me but i would of been one of the players that stayed for 5+ years like i did in ffxi. so i'd say your wishing gonna bit you in the butt when this game becomes desolate and void of real players and your only hope is 2.0 that still has a very good chance of flopping 6months later. guess it is better without, so that it gets none of my attention so double edge says you and your comments on the threads will create a 2.0 that no one will play all over again. /cheer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70oaQR6tKE

also for those saying there servers are high population then you must of never played another mmo at launch time or least not a good one, if you even played ffxi at launch then you know what a real population looks like. the highest pop server combined with the second highest still probably not even close.

[Deceptistar]

i love seeing XIVpads but i think its far from accurate if you want a 'world' view of the servers.
Considering half the playerbase is JP, that means a whopping load of pple are missing. And i can say that, among the JP XIV strategy sites and info forums, FFXIVpads is not well known, if even at all.