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Duffman

Duffman

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It really had me worried this weekend.
It was consistantly between 2000 and 2500.
(when I was on anyway)

Now it is over 5000 again.
I know a lot of people are leaving, but there
are still more coming in. I like that.

I started in June of this year and AM NOT DONE
playing yet. There is Soooo much more for me
to do in this game.

I am truely sorry to see all of these people leave,
including my IRL life-long friend who hooked me
on this game. I look forward to simply making
new in-game friends with the remainin J / E / and
new Euro-players.

The game should still be going strong. Personally,
I think "gil situation / economy" "new mmorpgs"
and all that are simply excuses for one to leave
when they are already tired of the game.

Well, I still really enjoy it and am not having ANY
trouble making and spending gil. Hope you all
still play!
 
i will duff , if i get my damn rank 5 but i got a new CPU and my mom doesnt install it when im at school ( she says "Ill install it while im at school.) and my dad is on it when i have time to install it
 
Yeah I have a lot left to do as well. I hope not too many quit but I know that is just a matter of time. Needn't worry though, if enough people quit they will start collapsing servers together so it could go from a population of a total of like 4000 back up to 8000 by combining failing servers. So it will take LONG time for it to completely die out.
 
They currently have 32 servers, and over 1.5 million people who play. You can't base how many people play on how many you see online at the time your on.

When my friend started half a year ago they had 12 servers. You do the math.
 
Just an fyi from a GM. Each server population caps at 10k players online at one time, but they are aiming at keeping the average max at 5k. Several severs had reached 6k+ during peek times and that is what brought on our last server migration.
 
Aerandir said:
They currently have 32 servers, and over 1.5 million people who play. You can't base how many people play on how many you see online at the time your on.

When my friend started half a year ago they had 12 servers. You do the math.
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1,5 Millions is actually the number of characers created (just checked FFXI official site). If you assume that, on average, everyone as 1 mule, that means you have 750 000 players for all the servers.

Also, it says on the site that the record for the amount of characters (including mules) at one time was 170 000. Assuming that SE is doing a good job at distributing accounts on servers, that makes about 5300 per server at the same time. So what Rones is saying makes a lot of sense.
 
:shock: wow, I never got into breaking down the numbers.
I just made an observation that the numbers seemed smaller.
It may be possible because of the new games out, but I believe
it might be because it was thanksgiving weekend. I just thought
people would have tons of time to game that weekend.

I mean I took my RNG from 9 to almost 20 in that time;
along with some other things. Well thanks for the breakdown
of the numbers. <That's Interesting>

....and it took a long time for this post to get some action... 8)
 
Well from a lot of my Friends that Play WoW they are already sick of it, and will be returning sortly. I feel bad for one of them because they sold all thier gear and gave away thier money.(Refusing to give me any BTW >=[
 
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