Quote Originally Posted by Selsix View Post
I never claimed it was hurting for numbers. I claimed it was niche and never hit high popularity, which is accurate.
But the thing is, we don't have raw numbers. SE has never given us raw numbers for XI or XIV. But the game was not "laughably low" or as unpopular as you put it earlier lol. And it was quite popular, just not WoW popular. If you were part of mmo groups and forums back in the day, XI was talked about just as often as XIV currently is, albeit more positively than XIV currently is. They even talked about it on G4 and various early gaming sites quite a lot, which is how I learned about it in the first place. The only niche part about it was the fact it was Japanese, because it was a blatent EQ rip off, SE even admits that openly.