10th anniversary microsite now live

Not really. It's just those numbers aren't reflective of play time. For example creating mule characters or accounts for extra storage space. Plus the endless slew of "curiosity signups". Basically people who download the game, create an account, find they don't much like the game and then just abandon. Not to mention that the bulk of accounts were created years and YEARS ago, when there was no level 250 or even level 200 and many of those accounts have become effectively abandoned.

If they factored in recent logins as well as play time, the figures would be MUCH different.

For serious players you need at ~least~ a dozen mules that are at ~least~ level 70 or level 120 in order to make use of link skills.

I've only been playing the game for about a year and a half and yet my main is presently at level 220, another mule is at 200, another four mules are between 130 and 160 another twelve are at level 120 and the remaining six are between level 30 and 70 (two of which are mule cannoners used for storage space).

Leveling is *WAY* easy, especially now with Star Planet and continual 2x weekend events, which has effectively made level 220 the new general "high level" for most serious players since you can get 4x experience (it used to be that 2x coupons were effectively nonexistent for characters over level 200).

Get above level 210, THEN you can complain about difficulties in leveling. Otherwise you can easily get to level 100 in a day without any real serious effort and you can go from 100 to 200 in a month with only a couple hours of play time a day.

 Spoiler

I wonder how many of those are bots xD