FFXIV Server Suspension Day 2: The Return of Day 1

[Rockne]

The situation in Japan worsens, my initial thought of severs being down for only two weeks has changed to a damned month.

It's kinda sucking major right now for Japan. The Ring of Fire is going friggen wacky.

In lighter news: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1882

Exploding dinosaur coffee makers. I love QC.

[Raim]

Looking into another MMO play for the unquestionable downtime, sadly. Really was getting back into this and working on my first linkshell. I hope the situation doesn't continue to worsen.

[TonyMontana]

Looking into another MMO play for the unquestionable downtime, sadly. Really was getting back into this and working on my first linkshell. I hope the situation doesn't continue to worsen.

I cant blame you for this. I think you wont be the only one. SE needs to be moving those servers ASAP. Lets get this game up and running again before a large percent of our laughable 31k population finds some other MMO to entertain them.

[Elkwood]

I cant blame you for this. I think you wont be the only one. SE needs to be moving those servers ASAP. Lets get this game up and running again before a large percent of our laughable 31k population finds some other MMO to entertain them.

Seriously... stop with the move the server comments not going to happen dont need forum cluttered with this.

[TonyMontana]

Seriously... stop with the move the server comments not going to happen dont need forum cluttered with this.

yeah because I keep making new threads about it right? Also did yoshi-p give you the inside info that the company wouldnt be moving the servers or are you going by what they did last time this senario happened?

[Elkwood]

yeah because I keep making new threads about it right? Also did yoshi-p give you the inside info that the company wouldnt be moving the servers or are you going by what they did last time this senario happened?

Didn't say you were making threads about it in fact I don't believe I ever implied that you were, However we both know SE will not move the servers to the west coast as was asked by the XI community for about 8 years. the Most that will happen is the development team will continue to work in secret over the next few weeks and when the game does come back up it is back with a massive patch. However due to the ever growing tragedy, most likely when the game does return to operation it will be back exactly as it was.

[Jennestia]

yeah because I keep making new threads about it right? Also did yoshi-p give you the inside info that the company wouldnt be moving the servers or are you going by what they did last time this senario happened?

You do know a disaster could befall anywhere right? Moving servers does nothing -- All it does is say if something goes wrong the other side of the world can play happily.

[Cairdeas]

Where do you get this "31k" count? Because last I checked all of the features that let you search for how many active players there are on a server are truncated to 1k and never go above that.

[TonyMontana]

Where do you get this "31k" count? Because last I checked all of the features that let you search for how many active players there are on a server are truncated to 1k and never go above that.

I have 0 facts to back up this figure, however it is the most used figure I have seen in the past month or so BUT it could be completely wrong.

[Sirrush]

I have 0 facts to back up this figure, however it is the most used figure I have seen in the past month or so BUT it could be completely wrong.

The most recent comprehensive piece of research is the following chart for the last day of January – showing from left to right, the server, the server population as a percentage of Cornelia (the benchmark server), the estimated active daily players, and the estimated number of alt or mule characters (57% of the total):

ff14-stats-1

This suggests an estimated active daily unique player population of only 17,776.

The total active character figure of 31,150 can safely be ignored as the last official unique player count was 22,000, back in November (the same day saw Cornelia counted at 4019 using the unofficial method) – with players reporting virtually deserted servers, it is safe to say the collapse reflected in the numbers is real.

ff14-stats-2.png

More recent statistics only exist for Cornelia – although some simple calculations allow an estimate of the current population to be arrived at; for the last week of January the average was 2086, and for the most recent week of March the figure is 1850.

This 12% decrease suggests the total active population has decreased somewhat to 15,500 or so – a mere third of the peak numbers reported.

the most recent stats on population i can find.