Some numbers released!

[LyleVertigo]

All they did was dust off the 1.0 servers, what do you expect? lol

[Tiggy]

All they did was dust off the 1.0 servers, what do you expect? lol

You know nothing. It's a completely new server for a completely new game.

[Abriael]

I'm quite surprised that they gave numbers only in the press release, but not in the message on the lodestone. You'd think this is the right time to tell people "hey, things are actually going well"

almost 200,000 connections at the same time is a ginormous number for a P2P game.

All they did was dust off the 1.0 servers, what do you expect? lol

Not very likely, considering that 1.0 had a lot less servers and shipping servers from Japan to the US is almost as costly as buying new ones.

[Molly_Millions]

Too many players is a very good problem to have. I'd rather see the issues related to this than a broken game any day of the week.

[Arixtotle]

I just found a really intersting thing about concurrent users to active users to "named users", aka accounts, ratio on IBM. Not sure if it really applies to MMOs, and I would certainly say that ratios are not completely correct for a launch, but it said the ratio is for every 1 concurrent user there are 10 active users and for every 10 active users there are 100 accounts. So it's 1:10:100 for concurrent:active:accounts. I would say that means there could conceivably be almost 2 million active users. Which is kinda insane to think about.

NOTE: As I said before I don't believe those ratios are completely correct for launch but I do think they could be correct for an average day for MMOs.

[Pooky]

Concurrent logins on a server is usually 15-20% of the servers total population. Although for this game, I'm sure that's much higher because right now with it being early, people are playing longer and the no AFK kick skews those numbers quite a bit too.

[Felix7007]

200K per server....

[Abriael]

200K per server....

That's total, not per server lol.

[Sylph]

Dem numbers

[Mikedizzy]

That is crazy...but I would have thought more would be online than that...especially day one go live. I guess considering all the info thrown out here that this is quite a big deal. It felt like in Gridania at the Main Crystal there were 100's at times during the beginning. It felt really crowded with names everywhere.