ps3 will save this game!

[Jennestia]

100k subs is the number I have felt would be fair. SEs MMO track record doesnt exactly inspire tons of confidence in me for an unseen future. However feeling the severs will have somewhere between 2 and 8 times as many current players as it has now is fairly generous in my opinion.

FFXI neared 1 million active subs (since people don't consider character count important to anything) which was pretty high back in 2004, FMO neared 350k iirc, which was a lesser IP compared to FF.

So...what track record are we speaking of? XIV track record? To be fair I never understood the whole "track record" argument.

[TonyMontana]

FFXI neared 1 million active subs (since people don't consider character count important to anything) which was pretty high back in 2004, FMO neared 350k iirc, which was a lesser IP compared to FF.

So...what track record are we speaking of? XIV track record? To be fair I never understood the whole "track record" argument.

The track record of releasing an MMO that is a shell of a game, FFXI was a shell at JP release and so was FFXIV. This 2.0 coming in a year is basically a new game has SE learned how to release a new MMO in a state ready to be played and enjoyed by several hundred thousands of people? The 2 strikes against them say no. Fool me once(FFXI release) shame on you. Fool me twice(FFXIV release) shame on me. Fool me three times (FFXIV 2.0)...thats not gonna happen I doubt I will be here for 2.0.

I would be willing to play 2.0 if I am not into another MMO by then but its a year away chances are something else will have hooked me by then.

[Andrien]

I predict they'll break 1 million subs in 1.5 years starting in v2.0