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Final Fantasy XIV Has Reached Over 16M Players Since Launch & Shadowbringers Launch Trailer - MMORPG
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Final Fantasy XIV Has Reached Over 16M Players Since Launch & Shadowbringers Launch Trailer - MMORPG.com
Final Fantasy XIV is part of today's Square Enix E3 2019 presentation. During the chat by Naoki Yoshida, he revealed that subscriptions are at an all-time high just ahead of Shadowbringers and that the game has reached over 16M players since ARR launched six years ago.
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WoW never had 12 million, that's was a marketing thing. Actually if you take a look a mmo population data right now, FFXIV have more active players than WoW.
No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.
WoW had 'over' 12 million subscribers in 2010. It's not bullshit or inflated with some trick. It's a fact.
Subscribers was defined as:
"individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards."
There was no marketing bullshit. The only way it's not true is if they were simply flat out lying.. which they weren't because those numbers are tied to their accounts and it would have been illegal.
.. but I don't care about the FFXIV vs WoW thing. Both are very healthy but WoW is on the slow decline at the moment and FFXIV is on the slow rise. Personally, I couldn't stick with FFXIV.. even after getting past the core game quest grind. It's just not for me.
I wonder kind of "mode" FF14: ARR will be in on its 15th birthday.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
You qualify as either a parrot or a sheep.
WoW had over 12 mil active accounts and that couldn't be a lie because those numbers were for their investors.
The current WoW expansion is really bad, so it's not a surprise if at the moment FF14 have more active players, however that doesn't make FF14 better neither WoW having more subs make it better. It comes down to personal preference, so I don't think it's right to compare them.
For example I like WoW more than FF14, but at the moment I'm leveling a char on FF14 while I haven't logged in WoW in 1-2 months now.
@Remali total accounts is such a irrelevant number to be honest... I have a level 8 char in ESO, so from those 13.5mil accounts there's at least 1 that played 2 hours and stopped playing the game
I'm okay with both but I agree- after last expansions for WoW Blizzard loosing their fanbase pretty fast. And like it wasn't enough - they started that mobile games thing, everyone was like "wut"
Congrats Yoshi and all the fine people behind the scenes of this wonderful mmo!
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Just gimme some truth
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You must be special, FF has a TOTAL (inactive/active) sub count of 16 million, WoW already reached that milestone in 2008. And now most likely has over 100-200M accounts. FF is afraid to call their active numbers cause no game will EVER match wow's active sub count no matter how good or bad wow does they will always be number one with active subs until it shuts down it's servers.
I'm expecting FF to have around 200-500K active subs while WoW in one of the shittiest expansions still holds over 5+ mil active subs and not to mention that will rise significantly when Classic comes out.
I see what you did there, you must think you're pretty clever.
I can tell you this....if they keep treating their product and their customers like they have they will be in a MUCH better place than Blizzard and WoW. You can take that shit to the bank. Blizzard has phoned it in, they tuned out the player base and went rogue. BfA is a trainwreck and they are bleeding subs. Square Enix is doing it right.
Sources now or it didn't happen. Oh, and "Fanboy. 2019. MMORPG.COM" is not a source. I want to see where BfA is holding 5+ million active subs right now. I'll wait. Keep in mind....I have been a WoW fan since BETA. I don't even like FFXIV. I've tried, but it doesn't grab me at all. They treat their customers and their game with respect, Blizzard does not. Keep that in mind while you are defending those pieces of whale dung.