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deskpro2k3 on 23 August 2015
Sunstrider said:
deskpro2k3 said:


check your email for the 20 digit code, and if you haven't yet, pop the disc in already, do it.

the 20-digit code will grant the bonus pre-order items.


No code was sent to my email, I didn't even recieve a confirmation that a code was sent to my email, and my problem is that my disc is in europe with my mom, so I was asking if is there anyway to play the game without the disc?


ok now I get it. disc is used as authentication, it only need to be used once. You screwed yourself.



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Sunstrider on 23 August 2015
deskpro2k3 said:
Sunstrider said:


No code was sent to my email, I didn't even recieve a confirmation that a code was sent to my email, and my problem is that my disc is in europe with my mom, so I was asking if is there anyway to play the game without the disc?


ok now I get it. disc is used as authentication, it only need to be used once. You screwed yourself.

Lol ouch, well thanks for the help anyways, guess I'll be waiting until the holidays to play the dang game XD.



             

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Wagram on 23 August 2015
deskpro2k3 said:
Wagram said:
There aren't even 1m subs in XIV currently, this is a meaningless PR figure.


oh shiz dood. limme see that source. I've been hearing that for a year and a half now. Otherwise that was a meaningless downplay figure.

edit:

We dont know how many subs, because SE never release that data. The only thing that we know this year is that SE got more total revenue, +5M registered users, and FF14 ARR is the main reason about the increase of that revenue. We don't know about china, but let me tell you this, they can handle that info in whatever way they want.


You seem offended. That's rather sad and that's coming from a fellow XIV player.

This is the most recent source...."dood."

“Three major MMO titles—“FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN,” which began operation last August, “DRAGON QUEST X,” which was launched in August 2012, and “FINAL FANTASY XI,” which has entered its thirteenth year of operation—maintain nearly 1,000,000 paying subscribers all together, and have established a solid revenue base.” (pg 4)

Either way, the figure is meaningless PR. No one cares how many registered accounts there are.



Namiirei on 23 August 2015
Wagram said:
 

“Three major MMO titles—“FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN,” which began operation last August,

You really don't see the problem in your post ?

"Last August". Your source is totally outdated, by at least one year.



Zekkyou on 23 August 2015

It's nice to see FF14 is doing so well. For them to hit the 5 million sales milestone around the same time as Guild Wars 2 (which has also been a pretty big success), despite releasing a year later and having a sub, is pretty damn impressive. Would be interesting to know how many subs FF14 has right now. Pre-3.0 i'd have guessed around 500k~, but i haven't a clue where it'd be sitting right now.



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deskpro2k3 on 23 August 2015
Wagram said:
deskpro2k3 said:


oh shiz dood. limme see that source. I've been hearing that for a year and a half now. Otherwise that was a meaningless downplay figure.

edit:

We dont know how many subs, because SE never release that data. The only thing that we know this year is that SE got more total revenue, +5M registered users, and FF14 ARR is the main reason about the increase of that revenue. We don't know about china, but let me tell you this, they can handle that info in whatever way they want.


You seem offended. That's rather sad and that's coming from a fellow XIV player.

This is the most recent source...."dood."

“Three major MMO titles—“FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN,” which began operation last August, “DRAGON QUEST X,” which was launched in August 2012, and “FINAL FANTASY XI,” which has entered its thirteenth year of operation—maintain nearly 1,000,000 paying subscribers all together, and have established a solid revenue base.” (pg 4)

Either way, the figure is meaningless PR. No one cares how many registered accounts there are.

 

Let me hit you with some knowledge because you seem unaware of this fact. FYI, that report was released in March 2014, the end of the last fiscal year.

edit: somebody already beat me to it. lol



deskpro2k3 on 23 August 2015
Namiirei said:
Wagram said:
 

“Three major MMO titles—“FINAL FANTASY XIV: A REALM REBORN,” which began operation last August,

You really don't see the problem in your post ?

"Last August". Your source is totally outdated, by at least one year.


He's just trying to downplay some good news. It's sad because it's "coming from a fellow FFXIV player", he says.



Samus Aran on 23 August 2015
Kyuu said:
Samus Aran said:
I think Runescape once celebrated 200 million accounts created (most of which were bots of course). 5 million is small compared to that.


Of course but this comparison is kinda pointless because Runescape is free.

True, but Jagex makes a lot of money thanks to them because of ad-revenue. Runescape also has an optional membership fee by the way. I don't know the actual numbers but there were times when there were over one million paying members active.



deskpro2k3 on 23 August 2015
Samus Aran said:
Kyuu said:
Samus Aran said:
I think Runescape once celebrated 200 million accounts created (most of which were bots of course). 5 million is small compared to that.


Of course but this comparison is kinda pointless because Runescape is free.

True, but Jagex makes a lot of money thanks to them because of ad-revenue. Runescape also has an optional membership fee by the way. I don't know the actual numbers but there were times when there were over one million paying members active.

Runescape is a browser game, that would make it very accessible to play.



Sentient_Nebula on 23 August 2015

This game deserves success! Before I started playing this game, I didn't really like the idea of a subscription model. Even after I tried the beta, I wasn't so sure. But the frequent and substantial content updates, the lack of microtransactions that affect game balance/pacing, and just the overall quality of the game means that I actually hope it stays subscription-based going forward.



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