So, search for total populations...

[TheVedis]

Karnak has like 200 players online, lol. That's 600.

this isnt their peak hours though is it?

remember, we are talking peak hours

not "now" hours


and 30% of the population beign on at any given time is pretty much rediculous, in order for that to be true everyone would have to be on 8+ hours a day, which just isnt happening, and i can say that with 100% certainty


people like to think the lower numbers are the most accurate, but i think they dont give games enough credit(i can site a few older examples, such as champions online when this issue came up, and due to a server error we actualy saw the true population of the game one night when the servers didnt shard correctly and we all ended up on a single one)


but yeah some servers will ahve lower pops, but the higher pop servers will even those out, which is why i state 1000 players online average during peak hours is a good number to go with

[viion]

this isnt their peak hours though is it?

remember, we are talking peak hours

Even low servers max at 300-400 at peak.

So even if you got 1000k per server, that 1000k isnt garaunteed to stay when billing starts is it? A lot of people saying they will stop playing once it goes p2p so the faithful customers might not be so faithful after all.

But in the end, as disturbing as these numbers are, they will all reduce a significant amount come January 6th, we can compare then the difference and see just how bad things or or see if SE got faithful customers.

Not to mention there are people who play all day or across 2 time segments (afternoon to peak) so say if 200 at afternoon and 300 at peak that isnt 500 unique people garauntee, 100 of them could be people still playing, infact that is more likely true because people AFK a lot. you know... or bot lol.

[DyskoFox]

Melmond @ 7:54 est
1-40: 154
LL Gc: 121
Grid Gc: 118
Ul'dah Gc:129
None: 16

Total: 538

[PandaTaru]

Fabul at around 7PM (EU/Paris timezone) yesterday

124
26
25
191 <- 49~r50
=
366 players

Got curious reading this thread and logged in to check again.

At around 1PM (EU/Paris timezone) today.

177
84
86
191 (jp r50)
66 (en r50)
3 (fr r50)
0 (de r50)
=
607 players

When I logged in Selbina an hour or two after logging out of Fabul yesterday the number of people on was already over 600 without narrowing the number of players r50 online. I doubt they'd allow us to search/find how many people are online again after removing it in a hurry back in December if they didn't have server merge/switch in mind. Once they start charging, the number of chars on the servers will surely even go down even more. Like those with with 7 mules/chars on the same server not renewing or deleting their mules.

[lackofwords]

I think a lot of people are forgetting majority of the player base is JP. So before all the "oh noes" try to get the numbers at JP peak hour instead.
Here is a comparison to just my post earlier.
Not to say these numbers aren't low, I mean back in Oct 2010 I've marked it to be 2400ish world pop around these hours. That means roughly 1000 less, about 42% population drop since then.

Selbina 12/17 8am Eastern
1-10: 66
11-20: 104
21-30: 164
31-40: 172
41-45: 95
46-49: 77
50: 679 (GLA:72, PUG:40, MRD:63, LNC:66, ARC:144, CNJ:173, THM:66, DoH/DoL:58)
Total: 1357

Lvl 50 ratio between JP/EN/FR&DE marked players (language redundancy included)
581:55:48

Selbina 10:30pm Eastern;
1-10: 41
11-20: 79
21-30: 124
31-40: 134
41-45: 85
46-49: 65
50: 413 (50 GLA: 37, 50 PUG: 28, 50 MRD: 38, 50 LNC: 51, 50 ARC: 72, 50 DoM: 133, 50 DoL&DoH: 54)
Total: 941

Lvl 50 ratio between JP/NA/FR&DE marked players (redundancy included)
245:150:17

[Nero]

Are you guys open the "All Classes" Menue and actually mark them all? <_< No idea how you guys do it but this is current Number on Gysahl:

Level 01-10 - 48 People
Level 11-20 - 72 People
Level 21-30 - 109 People
Level 31-40 - 124 People
Level 41-45 - 98 People
Level 46-49 - 65 People

Level 50 - Ok now im curious how you People do it:

72 GLA
31 PGL
44 MRD
67 LNC
138 ARC
152 CNJ
62 THM
11 Gatherclasses
42 Crafter

That is a total of 1135 ! And its not Primetime of any Region. So i ask again.. you guys actually MARK the Classes are you looking for?

Edit: lackofwords is doing it right:

[lackofwords]

That is a total of 1135 ! And its not Primetime of any Region.

It's nearing JP peak hours if not already their peak hour, 10:48pm now in Japan... hence my point how people are forgetting their player base is mainly in Japan.

Take FFXI peak hours as a guide, since it's roughly the same player base ratio.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../09/index.html

[Nero]

It's nearing JP peak hours if not already their peak hour, 10:48pm now in Japan... hence my point how people are forgetting their player base is mainly in Japan.

Take FFXI peak hours as a guide, since it's roughly the same player base ratio.
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui.../09/index.html

JP Peak is starting right now, so still checking.

Level 01-10 - 49 People
Level 11-20 - 63 People
Level 21-30 - 115 People
Level 31-40 - 120 People
Level 41-45 - 92 People
Level 46-49 - 74 People

Level 50 - Ok now im curious how you People do it:

77 GLA
30 PGL
51 MRD
68 LNC
142 ARC
168 CNJ
66 THM
11 Gatherclasses
32 Crafter

Total: 1158 going up slowly.

At a Sidenote: We wont know the current Numbers until be first Tally will be out. At the moment we just can assume. Just that we have 1158 right now on Gysahl, does not mean that most of them are the same Players i found an hour ago. Its just an aprox Number in 1 Peaktime of 3 Peaktimes. And even between those 3 Mainpeaktimes exist Countries which come on at certain Times we are not aware of. etc etc.

[Patafix]

9:20am EST / 2:20pm GMT / 11:20pm JP

Roughly 700 ppl on Trabia.

[Dragonheart]

very sad considering that we just had a major patch release and it's free... 6 jan will be the "death" of this game until 2.0 ? (they'll do server merge of course... but for how many player total.. uhmm 10k ? )