Quote Originally Posted by Matsume View Post
All i'm going to say at this point is that Yoshi P has mentioned servers having up to 4,000 players on at once during JP (?) prime time, which leads me to assume there are about 10,000 highly active accounts per server for a total of roughly 100,000 highly active accounts spread throughout all the servers. That's close to a million bucks a month in player subscriptions. Do you think it costs SE more than $10,000,000 a year to maintain the staff and servers necessary to run FFXI? I would be surprised. It is likely this game is already profitable...

I would like to know where Sephrick got his numbers of 10-20,000 subs since january...
he got them the same way you do, through guessing

his numbers are more based on the misguided asumption that "players on at a single time = the only players on the server period and therefore that servers total population"

your numbers may be a bit high too, but i for one wouldnt doubt that there are "least least: 50k people playing right now, probly more