Final Fantasy breaks more records:

The number of characters (currently active registered characters) living in Vana’diel has reached the 1.5 million mark! (As of September 28, 2004.)

The world of FINAL FANTASY XI is now home to more adventurers than ever before, with over 550,000 active players logging on during the same day, and a record 170,000 players logged on simultaneously on September 18.

So:
– 1.5 millions of active characters
– 550.000 unique accounts logging during a day
– 170.000 players online at the same time

This is hard to compare because we are used to the number of subscriptions but I still have to point out that for each character you need to pay one more dollar and the game was at 500k *subscribers* when the population was of 1 million active characters and 140k users logged at the same time.

But there’s an even bigger aspect to consider. There are a max of 170.000 users logged into 30 unique servers. This means an *average* of 5.600 users on *each* server.

Simply awesome. And we are probably above 600k subscribers.

Blizzard, remember this when you consider your localized server of 2000 players and terrible off-peaks.