10% of the Final Fantasy XIV players cheat

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6 thoughts on “10% of the Final Fantasy XIV players cheat”

  3. Your method of trying to count the number of people actively playing the game every month doesn't strike me as reliable enough to put any confidence in. It's especially ignorant of jp players.
    I would put more stock into the census figures for active users given by people who comb through the lodestone, which would put the active playerbase at (probably) 1.7 million. These aren't daily players, but it's the only estimate we have that has a decent methodology. Additionally, this is an estimate of characters and not individual accounts, but active alts are very rare and would not account for a significant percentage of the active character base.
    For a conservative estimate, 25% of these raid (and clear the tier), which would put the successful raiding population at like 425,000. This is very conservative because it doesn't count players who never won a roll on the mount, or players who never beat P4S, so the real number is almost certainly higher.
    If you discount jp players, then the figure for the active raiding population would drop significantly and be closer to your guess, but then one couldn't claim that 10% of all FF players cheat. Only active foreign raiders who have completed the current tier and won the mount. Still significant, of course.

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  4. Sounds reasonable. SE will not do anything about cheats and botting though, they've made it clear with their actions.

    XIV is a weird MMO, and imo it's healthier to treat it more like Skyrim – do whatever you want, nobody cares, nothing means anything. Play for as long as you're having fun, then unsubscribe. Maybe the next expansion or patch will revitalise your interest, and you'll come back.

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  6. Lucky Bancho's numbers are probably the most reliable even though it's a character survey, I really don't believe ff14 is at 200k active because "lost ark must have more"

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