February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Lauront]

The "22 millions players" is a joke. It's the number of created accounts, it's nearly worthless as a metric.

Correct, although the metric which is more reliable (luckybancho's survey) has shown growth - especially over Stormblood. But they have some trouble with retention. They're at around 900k as per the most recent one, down from a high of 1,2m recorded in August. The 22m figure is, as you say, meaningless.

With that said, I'm going in expecting very little. If he's genuine about the "high expectations" thing, all the better. Seeing is believing.