FFXIV Population this small really? wtf?

[KageTokage]

It kind of bugs me that they make claims about the game having 14 million players when only around 2-3% of that figure actively plays the game and 80-90% of it are just RMT accounts that have long since been banned.

[noxen]

It kind of bugs me that they make claims about the game having 14 million players when only around 2-3% of that figure actively plays the game and 80-90% of it are just RMT accounts that have long since been banned.

I think that's an acumilative total since ARR launch.

[Saccharin]

It kind of bugs me that they make claims about the game having 14 million players when only around 2-3% of that figure actively plays the game and 80-90% of it are just RMT accounts that have long since been banned.

I think that's an acumilative total since ARR launch.

Yes, it's registered players, ie people who have bought the game, played for a while then quit. Retention in MMOs is very hard.

SE have never given out their concurrent player values just words like it's increased with X expansion or it's bigger than ever.

The latest figure from Google is 18 million last December. But... how many are still playing. A million maybe at most. Still very good!

[Taebok]

It kind of bugs me that they make claims about the game having 14 million players when only around 2-3% of that figure actively plays the game and 80-90% of it are just RMT accounts that have long since been banned.

Just like Facebook claiming to have two billion users when 75% of those are fake accounts, and another 20% are people who have multiple accounts for whatever devious reasons they have.
Technology companies know this, but they only care about numbers they can point to.