Final fantasy 14 broke a record for a japan mmo. Might effect ffxi. Player base?.

[FaeQueenCory]

Seeing as so far everything has been a beta, I doubt it will be as temporary as you seem to believe, some people will obviously come back, but to say only a small % of people who leave will stay gone, is funny, that's to say that a small % of people like it enough to leave this game. Betas are just that, betas, and while the amount of people online on FFXI has dropped many times during betas for FFXIV, I am sure that the real deal will be a real drop, rather than a temporary one, such as the betas are temporary access in a way. I think of it all as a test, its a test of FFXIV, and as well as a test of how this game will shrink.

I am only speaking from experience.
Let me number-ify it for easy comparison.
Say I have 10 friends who left for the betas. Of those 10, 7 returned and 3 stopped XI in favor of XIV.
That is what I am talking about.
From my experience, the majority of those who will leave for XIV will return to XI.
XIV will not kill XI.

[Demon6324236]

I am only speaking from experience.
Let me number-ify it for easy comparison.
Say I have 10 friends who left for the betas. Of those 10, 7 returned and 3 stopped XI in favor of XIV.
That is what I am talking about.
From my experience, the majority of those who will leave for XIV will return to XI.
XIV will not kill XI.

How many of the 7 who returned have no plans at all to go play XIV? That's the real question.

If I play a good beta it doesn't mean I am going to quit my current game, I will wait for the new game to come out, make sure its still good, then quit it.

[Meyi]

-sigh- They've been saying XIV will kill XI for the last... six years now? When FFXI does end -- whether it be because of XIV's success or because XI has finally fallen -- I'm sure we'll be hearing XIV brag about its destruction irregardless. :/

If you want to play XIV, play XIV. If you want to play XI, play XI. Seeing all of these "XIV WILL BREAK XI!!!!11oneone" topics is mildly depressing.