FilthMcNasty wrote:
It doesn't bother me that XIV is doing great. I'm curious why they don't give meaningful numbers to support that, but that doesn't mean they're not doing well. I can't see a downside to letting people know how many people are actually subscribed though. Most companies pride themselves on the number of customers they are able to attract, but SE likes to keep it a secret for whatever reason.
Just curious; are you trying to convince me here or are you trying to convince yourself?
It's not some dark secret though. No company ever has given "the numbers" if there is no clear positive improvement over the last set of numbers (excluding the numbers required by the law). If there is no change, the change is negative or the positive change is too negligible to mention then of course they're not going to give you that information. It can't be used for PR purposes.
The fact is they're doing great if their sub numbers have remained constant for the duration of the service. Yet there's nothing to "report" about that. They have still given us unofficial data (by Yoshi-P) that they are doing well
subscriptions wise. There's nothing more to say really. No dark secrets to be had.
Just a guy who can't deal with the reality and lashes at the messenger instead.
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If they said 500k active subscribers everyone would be impressed, the fact they are afraid to give subscription numbers to me shows that it's fallen quite low and they are ashamed and fearful of giving out this information. They keep singing the game as a success but I think the reality is a lot more dire, keep in mind how much money was shoveled into this game over 10 years.
Sorry to **** on your hatorade but they just gave us this info last month. In fact it was 500k daily users so the sub number is higher than that.
Unless there was a
massive collapse in a span of a <month. Keep clinging on to that dream preludes.
Edited, Apr 17th 2014 8:16am by Hyanmen