Confusion around the world

This is what was recently published in South East Asia:

So what exactly is it about Lineage II, which has kept some 14 million gamers worldwide coming back for more with each new expansion to the game? Let’s hear from some people who have already played Lineage II and gotten hooked.

14 million? thats in total, not current subscribers, which is around 2 million tops total :(

I WISH it was 14 million.

I think 14 million are the number of accounts created.

Yeah, the sticky at the top says 17 million total people that have tried Lineage II worldwide.

Well, he is pulling company line...

But it is true. Its well over 14 million now however. That figure (14 million) was hit back in middle of 06.

From Q1 2007 report, it appears as if Lineage 2 (World wide..) is still growing in subscription numbers. (Who knows NA market, quarter results dont typically go into specific markets)

Ye, even if NA is dead, doesnt mean that L2 couldnt have huge numbers in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and the other regions there.

Found this a while back on blah, not so sure how to read it or whatever but maybe someone here got a clue ^^

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/134/loll2jk6.jpg

If those figures are for real, L2 as a whole has taken a deep drop.

auch

Wow all this time people thought of the increase in subscriptions.. Weird, I still see Erica is similar as what it was a while ago.
NcSoft has definitely got to do something, not really here but look at China servers! 44 and then went down into the 20s. Once Kamael comes out, they definitely have to advertise a ton.

They're 2 years late in advertising, OR more ^^

give all mages vampire claw and a pvp summon, and mana drain, and all melee with vampiric passives, give buffers decent pvp skills and erm ull have wow... oh yea and get rid of death penalties with a 50%+ rez... why even give newbie players death penalties? do you want ppl to play this game....

NA/EU servers seem to be well populated if you look at that link..not sure if its true tho... china and thailand has lost a lot of people tho..but I hope thats true, cuz it would mean L2 isent dying in NA/EU, but....