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Why Final Fantasy 14 Is So Popular Now | MMORPG.com
Final Fantasy 14 has been picking up major steam, but there's no singular reason why so many new players have joined - just a perfect storm of circumstances.
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As soon as I saw this article I knew there was going to be some airhead talking about Asmongold in the comments.
Stop that shit. Asmongold didn't fucking bring in every single new player. People who keep saying this really push the toxicity that is fucking Twitch and the streaming world in general. Believe it or not, the world is more than just Twitch.
It may have brought some people, but you're fucking lying to yourself if you think it brought every new person.
Streamers in general brought almost all of the new players. You're lying to yourself if you think this was because of anything else. Bigger question is, why does this upset you so much?
First, your claim is total bullshit if you don't substantiate it with anything so why say that Asmongold brought almost all new players? How surprising, another fanboy.
Doesn't upset me 'so much', it gets tiring though when tons of posts on the FF14 subreddit and mouth breather fans of Asmongold immediately jump on any subject about growth in an MMO that the dude players is all thanks to him.
Truly, fans of streamers are some of the weirdest, most simpy people I've ever seen. It's just like any celebrity person's fanbase - if the celebrity shits, it's gold to them.
"...there's no singular reason why so many new players have joined - just a perfect storm of circumstances."
We haven't really covered much ground from the OP...
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it was some indie game on steam, no publisher would admit that crap.
personally i dropped FFXIV for ESO a long time ago,
Hope your day gets better dude
Seems to me like many follow these streamers and influencers like the sheep do a shepherd. If they say "I like this game" then the sheep will play too.
It is quite reasonable to control the digital download to ensure server stability, more MMOs should do that. There may be a server upgrade as mentioned but this is SE's version of MMO crowd control and it makes perfect sense.
I think the bigger thing to take into account is that more people are seeing that its okay to play more than 1 mmorpg. Things are probably more accessible compared to how they were in the past and its okay to not just dedicate yourself to one thing. Years of thinking that way can be hard to break, but it seems like more people are dipping their toes into the water and at least are changing things up. It might help them revisit WoW or wherever they originally dedicated themselves with a fresher pair of eyes.
The otiose registration system, is egregious beyond comprehension!
This is the best solid response.
While i personally didn't enjoy FFXIV as much as i enjoyed FFXI, i'm happy others do.
For those of you pissing and moaning it wasnt asmongold. Their sales didnt spike once he started playing for nothing. He had at some point oh.. idk.. 200,000 viewers.
Look at the numbers instead of flying off the handle because youre a fanboy or you have some resentment towards the guy.
They did so many things right after 1.0, too. I had no interest in FF14 1.0 as I didn't care for FF 11, but after seeing the 1.0 server ending event, I preordered 2.0 at first chance!
It's not really my thing, but it's objectively a really beautiful and well made game that has a lot to like if you are into the modern FF aesthetic. unfortunately, I'm more of a DQ guy, myself.
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Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
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Asmongold's influence or not, FF14 is worth the insane attention it is receiving.
I want to play, so i play wow.
The long hallway quests are a killer for me, just when i think there couldn't be yet another cut scene there is.
Was at a friends and i haven't had regular tv for well over a decade and like F The amount of commercials is unreal, just when you think ok back to the show, NOPE squeezed in 4 more commercials, that's how excruciatingly painful FFXIV is to me, i'm like my dude stream ffs, his wife has to have tv?
Really I just want to play, be challenged, continually excel and improve my skills so fffxiv is so not a game for me.
I was all razzle dazzle'd by FFXIV years back too and after the flash wears off you start to realize just how weak the game is at the core.
My Advice, have fun while it lasts.
Now combine ffxiv catering to players and constant positive improvements, with blizzard continously releasing shit... patch after patch, expansion after expansion. Boom explosive growth for ffxiv.
Wow ppl are flocking in droves to ffxiv. All wows content creators going to ffxiv is increasing the wow exodus. The decline of wow is causing the boom in ffxiv.
Now me personally i give ffxiv a 6/10 wow a 5/10. They are both medicore mmos to me. But then again i hate solo player. Pure linear themepark games.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo