Worldwide server population count for 12/17 (JST) across all servers

[Neptune]

you dont understand what f2p games are im guessing

they come out with content so that they can SELL the content

the games arent actualy free, thats just a term to describe non subscription, everything in game however is expensive

Excellent description of that.

The fact they're redoing the client and servers without a large population (let alone a paying population) should tell you it's not necessarily the number of people playing that brings game tweaks and expansions, it helps sure, but F2P MMOs with significantly less than 100,000 users per region still get episodic content.

I can see why you are being defensive about the player population. You're right and you're wrong if you are defensive about your defensiveness.

You're right that a small population is adequate to play a game but
You're wrong because a small population leads to a game's death

[Betelgeuzah]

You're wrong because a small population leads to a game's death

I don't quite see what this has to do with FFXIV. A small, insufficient, unsustainable population is not going to kill this game. We have been past that point of no return for a year.

Unless you are implying as if there was some relevance as to How unsustainable the population is. In which case I have bad news for you- the game will be vastly more sustainable in less than a month than it has been for 15 months.

A population that doesn't generate revenue is as good as no population at all.