Interesting population statistics per Wikipedia and suggested server reallocation

[xxSHEPERDxx]

These numbers aren't people playing the game. No frikkin' way.

[Uanael]

It's clear by the way they handled the open beta having people unable to play for over 24hrs myself included. Now I can't even play because the servers are full and they have a queue like every MMO has had to handle full servers. If they keep this up and this game will fail just like their first go around. Don't get my wrong I want this game to succeed, but I'm getting close to the end of my rope this has been by far my worst MMO experience.

[Teardropz98]

Whole heatedly agree that they should of known better then to stick only 25 servers for the rest of the world, where Japan too has it's own infrastructure of 25 servers. I had no idea that Japan Players over shadow the rest of the World population wise? Huge huge mistake SE..... huge.

[Yoona]

As a Japanese player myself playing from NA, I can tell you this little bit. In Japan, gaming is not as "wide-spread" or as glorious as it is here. I don't mean to say that the nation hates games and fun. It's just that the notion of gaming in Japan is different than it is here. In Japan, the most widely adopted form of "gaming" is what we would probably best refer to as "arcade style games." Taiko machines, Beatmania consoles, stuff like that. The era of PC gaming has not really reached Japan as much as it is spread in NA/EU.

The population in Japan vs. NA/EU that are playing FFXIV: ARR, proportionally speaking, are probably quite a bit lower in Japan than it is in NA and EU. I really don't see why NA/EU has fewer servers than the Asian region.

[Tenzen]

wth lol.......

[SnaggleFox]

There is no way those numbers are in millions. If there are 316m people on the US servers, that's nearly the entire population of the US. Also, there's no way 1/8th of the worlds population is playing this game.

[Silversnow]

Just throwing out that in one of reinharts translated interviews that EU has the same amount of legacy people as JP. And that NA has twice as much.

[BlackDawn88]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

[kellyfcwalsh]

You forgot Korea and China and many countries connecting to JP servers

so china + 1357
Korea South +50
North Korea +25

Korea may be playing on Jap servers, but China wouldn't be. There are various rules about online gaming in China which is why most game publishers have to setup separate servers inside of china for that player base.