Highly doubt that.
Highly doubt that.
So... This is how MMO's are dying according to blizz if FFIXV got 6 milion subs?
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Heck if we look at your own source, we find this
Shows that FFXIV only had just over 200k active players last September.
So by your own source, it shows that WoW has at least 10x more subs than FFXIV. But of course that's ludicrous, right?
http://warcraftrealms.com/census.php...ervertypeid=-1
I very much doubt that Draenor has that amount of characters, and that it has a 2:1 alliance advantage. The source is bullshit. Warcraftrealms is 100% inaccurate
But MMORPG's are a dying genre. I'm being serious though, it is.
The difference is that FFXIV facilitates many different playstyles and interests. You can play FFXIV just like WoW (no shit) but I know people who barely play endgame content at all and sit on mountains of gil through crafting or gathering and treat it as their endgame. There are also people who only play for the story, or people who simply do "mid-core" content as eventually it can catch you up with even the endgame raiders and still have a lot of stuff to do. Stuff like unique 24 player raids have no equivalent in WoW. Stuff like 8-person hardcore raiding has no equivalent in WoW.
It's really vague statement. Someone should ask them direct question in Q&A.
Use logic. WoW and Final Fantasy are very similar games with same payment model. We can safely estimate that WoW have something around 5-7 million subs at this time of expansion lifetime (we don't know, but FFXIV also don't know that). And now look for example:
- look at Twitch - right now WoW have 11.000 viewers, FFXIV have 1.200,
- look at Youtube - FFXIV trailer videos from official channel have usually 100.000 views, there are exceptions with over 500.000 views; on WoW channel videos easily reach million; Anduin cinematic have already 500k after 3 weeks and 7.2 cinematic from few months have over 2 million views.
- look how active are forums in both games; in WoW even single mistake or inconvinience create massive uproar - you think it's coming from people that don't play the game?
These examples are not proofs, but tell us something about popularity of the game.
Also biggest thing: if Final Fantasy would have number of active subscribers even close to WoW, do you think they would put vague line in trailer or rather put official statement: "Final Fantasy XIV have over 6 million active subs right now. Thank you for support."
I'm not telling if one game is better than other by the way.
With good reason, it's honestly the only game I'd pay a sub for again. I stopped when I ran out of story to jump into other games but damn the story after the ARR was really good, I was freaking out.
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1. Wrong forum.
2. Game versus game.
3. Misleading thread title.
4. Pointless argument over numbers no one actually has.
Closed.
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