Quote Originally Posted by Victor View Post
I was wondering how you can see the total number of players online, my search caps at 200.
You just have to search by Grand Company, and add it all up, you may also need to vary the levels a bit to get a running total.

TheVedis...the problem here is servers like Karnak and Mysidia (the less populated ones), are at about 250 players during NA primetime. That's pathetic if you don't belong to one of the big 50-100 man shells, you won't get a whole lot done. It's clear judging by your sig that you play a lot and have friends within your shell to get things done, that's fantastic but not the case for every player.

With 250 players and about 80% of those being level 50, good luck leveling up in a party anywhere between 10-49. Certain servers during JP peak time only hit about 600-800 on a Friday night, right after a patch, again, very low numbers. People can argue, other non-big MMO's have only 3 servers, that's fine, but they have quite a few people on them at any given time, not 250! There could be 100,000 subscriptions right now, but if only a handful of them are logging on, there's a problem.

These populations are discouraging because to have a healthy MMO with lots of content, it has to be profitable. Ya, you won't interact with millions of other players, but you'll get expansions, lots of content with patches, more game tweaking, etc if the game is raking in millions a month vs hundreds of thousands a month.

I'll also say, I enjoy this game, do have a level 50 job, and will probably pay to play. Either way you look at this though, it's not good for the long term of this game, you WANT subscriptions and lots of them. I want to see 4-5 expansions for this game with great cutscenes and a good storyline and new events being added every few months.