We Need that Feeling back of "CoP"(first release)

[Hyrist]

FFXI beat 1M players for a while. They even posted an official announcement at POL when it first happened.

Trying to find it at archives...but since it's only up to 2005 so it might not be there.

Sorry to say. That announcement meant characters, not active subscribers. That's why it's not in any data-points.

FFXI had a stable population, but a small one comparative to a good number of MMOs that came in the age after it (As seen in Keyln's graph above.)

500k subscribers isn't a success in today's MMO market. We should by no means be shooting for that sort of cap. We should go higher, and IMO that sort of difficulty barrier you're looking at fondly is as much of a limiter as it was an asset.

Then again, so is the Final Fantasy name at this point. Yoshi and crew are taking on a massive uphill climb. The major problem is here though, we're now competing against FFXI as well and no matter what, you'll never get a 1/1 double subscription. We're going to have to pull people from different sources. Ideally from some of the other high-end-yet-aging MMOs in the market.