Interesting population statistics per Wikipedia and suggested server reallocation

[Yoona]

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

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

I find it hard to believe that there would be many Chinese players at all playing FROM mainland China. Taiwan and Hong Kong possibly. Still wouldn't be a large population in my opinion. I have lived in China and am fluent with Chinese and Chinese culture, and my personal opinion is that a game like FFXIV: ARR would be quite difficult to penetrate into the Chinese market. Do you wonder why we don't have a Chinese version of any of the FFXIV service websites?

I do think there could be a small population from South Korea, but again that's unlikely to be large enough to be of real significance.

[Lumenous]

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

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

I may be wrong, but I don't think the game is available in any of those countries. China in particular has very strict laws with regard to what can be depicted in video games, to the point that some games get released months or even years late in China because so much content has to be remade to abide by their laws.

[VidPrime]

I may be wrong, but I don't think the game is available in any of those countries. China in particular has very strict laws with regard to what can be depicted in video games, to the point that some games get released months or even years late in China because so much content has to be remade to abide by their laws.

Also I can't imagine North Korea playing at all because they're essentially segregated from the rest of the world in dictatorland

[JerryBoyle]

Why would wikipedia have correct numbers for the population of this game?

[Riposte]

[citation needed]

[mathikk]

those numbers are incorrect. TO date the most played game in the world is League of Legends and that game has roughly 36 million players

[Vigneault]

servers are meant for 2 hemispheres.
it's not JP vs rest of the world, JP servers are targeted for the whole eastern hemisphere and not just JP.

sadly, humanity truth : bigotry > logic anyway.

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

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

also the whole southeast asia.
and yes, they can english.

[Andevom]

To everyone expressing shock and disbelief to the OP's calculations, he's listing the populations for each country, not the number of people playing the game. Come now, guys, be serious.

The point being made here is the more people your country has that have access to the game, the more players you'll have. Of course, we don't know the exact figures to date, but it's a logical assumption to make. The argument is that there are the same amount of servers for a much larger potential customer pool as there are for the smaller one.

[SecondNature]

Oceanic and SEA players are pretty well organized. We chose our servers a long time in advance. I'd say close to 80% of all our playerbase are on the chose servers which are:

JP- Tonberry and Masamune(legacy) - The majority have chosen to go to the JP servers.
NA/EU - Behemoth.

As such, most of our playerbase is not having most of the issues.. However we are all struggling to fit on those servers. Thousands of which are unable to create new characters for Tonberry.

50 Servers on launch was a joke, and whoever did the research for SE is a clown. GW2, which launched with more players launched with 50 worlds - however each world was in a server cluster of up to 10 overflow servers each and still ran into some congestion(Yes, near 500 servers total). Overflow servers would clone the world, and place players on different servers inside the same world so people could continue to play un-interupted.

Without SE actually confirming how they set up the servers, It is fairly safe to assume it is severely lacking.

What will happen tomorrow when the 300,000+ non-legacy 1.0 players try to come and play the game? I can tell you right now, very few will be playing and a large majority will not give the game a 2nd chance after what happened with 1.0.