FFXIV surpasses 16 million players (lifetime accounts) + highest number of subscribers before Shadowbringers
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Damn, amazing how far FFXIV came and how far WoW fell.
I remember knowing someone who I used to play with online games (in a guild) said that WoW would never not be #1 MMO in player population and that FFXIV would never make it over 10 mil
Man how times have changed lol.
I remember knowing someone who I used to play with online games (in a guild) said that WoW would never not be #1 MMO in player population and that FFXIV would never make it over 10 mil
Man how times have changed lol.
Love this game but I have some dungeon anxiety, I'd like to return to it just for the story but the trust system is Shadowbringer only (I'm at the end of Heavensward), I'll wait until they give more tools for people who just want to enjoy the story.
Also my lifestyle don't work with sitting in a dungeon for 40+ mins straight everytime I want to go to the next story bit
Also my lifestyle don't work with sitting in a dungeon for 40+ mins straight everytime I want to go to the next story bit
It's crazy to me that the game can achieve this after 6 years, though it's certainly well earned. I do hope that they go back and fix the ARR hump some day though, since I feel like that probably puts off a lot of new players.
I've resubbed recently and there's a goddamn queue to login on my server which was low pop back in ARR 2.0 when I played (adamantoise)
They plan to during the Shadowbringers patch cycle. At least doing something with the endless amount of patch quests.
join an FC. ERA's or Giant Bomb's (VinCo) are pretty chill and full of people to solve this exact problem
The 16 million players for FFXIV aren't active subscribers.
By that statistic, WoW reached 100 million players by 2014.
Yes but it was 12 millions active subscribers. Here the 16 millions are the people that booted the game once in it's lifetime. It tells nothing on the number of subscribers at the moment.
Well deserved. Anecdotally I've seen a growing lack of confidence in the future of retail WoW since BfA and a lot of players planning to move permanently towards either FFXIV or WoW Classic
Aaaa, that is true. Forgot that distinction.
Apparently it's over 1 million subs now. Pretty incredible for how old the game is. Well deserved though.
That's pretty good but it's no WoW. Seriously the numbers WoW used to pull are in retrospect insane.
No yeah for sure. But in 2019 you would expect most MMO numbers to be going down, but FF14 is gaining popularity, probably in part to a lot of WoW players moving over to FF14.
That's good to hear. The worst hurdle is probably the 1-30 content but tightening up the patch quests is a good start.
The game is only six years old, it's still a pretty young MMORPG :-p
Glad for the game though, even if I'm a bit concerned the Trust system is going to hurt the game in the mid-term.
I'm curious what becomes of MMOs after games like WoW, EVE, and FFXIV lose more and more of their population and there isn't a new MMO to flock to.
In terms of new games, the genre is nearly dead outside of the occasional South Korean MMO that is probably too grindy to gain popularity in the West.
In terms of new games, the genre is nearly dead outside of the occasional South Korean MMO that is probably too grindy to gain popularity in the West.
FFXIV is not only not losing but actually increasing active subs, in a end of expansion content lull no less.
Bfa is hemorrhaging cause it is awful and the few redeeming qualities don't matter when the latest patch is 187 days ago and 8.2 is still not live lol.
Man, and I remember first playing this game at the ARR launch because life was not in a great place and I was worrying myself to death waiting for Bar Exam results and I needed something to just completely bury myself in, and this game was just at the right place at the right time.
And 6 years later I'm still playing it despite never having an interest in MMOs in general. That's the highest praise possible I can give this game and it deserves the achievement.
And 6 years later I'm still playing it despite never having an interest in MMOs in general. That's the highest praise possible I can give this game and it deserves the achievement.
I've come back in the past few months, desperately trying to catch up before Shadowbringers comes out.
I don't think I'll be done with the later post-Stormblood story chapters quite in time but it'll be close lol.
This is a well-deserved success story for sure but sadly those numbers don't mean much. What I'd be curious to know is the active userbase. But the fact that it is still growing is certainly encouraging.
I don't think I'll be done with the later post-Stormblood story chapters quite in time but it'll be close lol.
This is a well-deserved success story for sure but sadly those numbers don't mean much. What I'd be curious to know is the active userbase. But the fact that it is still growing is certainly encouraging.
Absolutely one of the best most fun games I've ever played.... what a wonder when you think how disastrous the game started.
One thing I thought was great about this game was when they introduced flying mounts they actually designed the zones and questing with verticality in mind. WoW retail could take a lesson from that instead of introducing flying mounts and then continuing to design strictly for ground mounts and disabling flying mounts for the majority of an expansion. I don't play FFXIV anymore but it's a great mmo.
I was really addicted when I played some years ago, but I stopped because the GAF clan was full of cliques with "hidden" linkshells only reserved for elites.
Your friend's right. WoW is still and will continue to be #1 for a long time.
I wonder how much the game's console presence contributes to that. Do we have any idea what the split is between PC/PS4?
Latest patch was march 12th (less than 100 days ago) and 8.2 is in 2 weeks now that the RC has hit the ptr
For those wondering, the exact number stated was 1 million active subscribers.
As someone who's planning on getting into this for the first time pretty soon, what's the process for this? If I wanted to join the GB one, do I need to be part of a specific server?
I have a level 30 archer but i never got back to it since i first played it on PS4 around 2014-15.
I was enjoying it but it was definately a time sink. My style of gaming is solo play so I dunno how that fared with the game as its Multuplayer. Is it worth jumping back in? I really don't know what I was doing in the story but to be honest i had a hard time following it anyway... but I dont want to start again.
I was enjoying it but it was definately a time sink. My style of gaming is solo play so I dunno how that fared with the game as its Multuplayer. Is it worth jumping back in? I really don't know what I was doing in the story but to be honest i had a hard time following it anyway... but I dont want to start again.