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FFXIV is growing it has 1mil active (non trail) subscribers atm
Dragnelus
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http://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/53486418.html
How much will that be at launch, I'm glad to see ffxiv doing well and I cant wait for shadowbringers "become what you must"
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That being said, I understand why developer do it. They use the numbers for advertisement.
I don't read Korean but I do see the "researched" by LuckyBancho - surely SE would "know". Are LuckyBancho a "research company" with lots of top secret computer models to estimate worldwide populations based on their sample of a few players! (Thinking of how some other companies say they come up with numbers).
Also pretty sure that FFXIV still has variable subscription plans as well e.g. for 3 days.
Anyway various headlines give this as characters or players but at the end of the day FFXIV is a solid game so I am sure such headlines it can't do any harm.
I remember reading about final fantasy subscriber number years ago, and it is no where near one million. And that number include both final fantasy 11 and final fantasy 14.
And usually subscriber number do down instead of up over time. So I'd be surprise if FF14 actually have 1 million subscriber.
If that is true, I'm sure there square enix would publish it. Usually companies hide their numbers unless it is good.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
and the judgment standard of the active character that becomes the base of 850,000 total target of the 蓮 character is as follows.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
I do recall that you only get one character slot for the base sub and you have to pay for each alt. So saying characters in a game where you pay for every extra character might be vastly different from say a game that gives you a lot of slots for one subscription price. Plus bear in mind one character can play every job. You don't need more than one unlike other games where you have to create alts to play different classes.
All in all characters in this case could be more closely to the actually number of subs than say other games because of the way the job system works.
Like someone else said....you can play all classes on one character and there is a sub just for that. So....
They just released two new races, one of which is the super popular and FF-lore-established Vierra too. Without a race change option (is there a race change option?), that would pump up the amount of characters and character slot purchases instead of outright new subscriptions significantly wouldn't it? (albeit probably not by more than say, 10-30%)
The cash shop item above provides a full character reset. They have provided one of those on each expansion that I've purchased. If however you want to buy one extra, it costs 7€.
Considering the massive amount of time it is required to go through the main story and all the unlocks, and since you can temp transfer your character to any server in your datacenter, the majority don't make alts.
Same, but after leaving it for a while I went back and played a bit more, now I enjoy it. It can be grindy, but it's standard MMO fare with no gimmicks, interesting story and is better than any f2p.