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

[sc4500]

http://www.gamingunion.net/news/fina...mpaign=Feed%3A

They had 150k+ concurrent users on at once so far for there beta. Held buy PSO 2 beta of 107k in japan still impressive number for them.

For those that are wonderong there is a lot former ffxi on ff14 also.

They had to shutdown the NA/EU side do a 3102 bug fix that broke the game.

They have added like 5 more servers in 48hrs.

Game fun . Not sure how many true old school veterans from ffxi will actually leave ffxi though. I'm sure we will see a slight decline in next few months.

Here another article were can see some other games that are running normal. To see that is a impressive number. This little out date from may 2013.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/league-...layers-6405485

Shows a few steam games that were popular as concurrent users.

[Kaisha]

Any 'hot' MMO might affect FFXI playerbase, whether it has Final Fantasy in its title or not.

[Umichi]

Here we go again... how many times will I have to put onmy tinfoil hat?FFXI is not going anywhere.. less people means they will structure the game around fewer players.. It might make a minor impact on the game if that.. but in the long run XI is still a profit machine...

[FaeQueenCory]

Here we go again... how many times will I have to put onmy tinfoil hat?FFXI is not going anywhere.. less people means they will structure the game around fewer players.. It might make a minor impact on the game if that.. but in the long run XI is still a profit machine...

Indeed.
Though I think you'll see a bit more of an impact when it's fully golden. But that will be only a temporary thing.
I know I've seen quite a few friends on XI "jump ship" to XIV... but they have either come back to XI or are holding out for the real release. (So there will be a player dip, but it won't last and only a small percentage of those who "switch" will stay in XIV.)

[Demon6324236]

Indeed.
Though I think you'll see a bit more of an impact when it's fully golden. But that will be only a temporary thing.
I know I've seen quite a few friends on XI "jump ship" to XIV... but they have either come back to XI or are holding out for the real release. (So there will be a player dip, but it won't last and only a small percentage of those who "switch" will stay in XIV.)

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.

[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.

[Demon6324236]

less people means they will structure the game around fewer players

Tell this to SE. The amount of people playing this game has been decreasing for some time, even if not by a large amount, and yet they released SoA with an event that basically requires hundreds of people to fight it while simultaneously alienating a good part of players, many of which were on the higher end of gear. Also, these fights which take so very many people, can last many hours, on the same level of as Absolute Virtue or Pandemonium Warden, fights which took way to long and players were getting ill during them, not only that, but they took only 18 people to fight, not 100+. So I would not count on the fact that players quit that SE will take it into account while making content and structure the game around that fact, rather, I think they will ignore it, add more areas, the last 2 Wildskeepers, and so on, all while not lowering the difficulty, player requirements, or anything of the sort, but rather keeping it exactly how it is right now in terms of scale, and continuing onward.



So far as those people who think that even though this has Final Fantasy in its name and FFXIV has Final Fantasy in its name that it makes little difference, trust me, it makes a difference, I am sure a great deal of people who started this game, did so because it was Final Fantasy. While you are right, that any 'hot' MMO would drop the amount of subscriptions, I would bet money that a great deal of people who play this game are Final Fantasy fans, and are going to end up trying FFXIV at some point if they are able to if for no reason other than it being a Final Fantasy game, so depending on the quality of the time they have while trying the game, they may just actually leave this for it. Obviously not everyone will, some people will not like it, others will find good things about it but not enough to move or continue paying for it, but some people will like it enough to leave, that will have an effect on this game, if people can not accept the fact it will have an effect on this game I have no idea how to say it to you.

[Stompa]

Here we go again... how many times will I have to put onmy tinfoil hat?FFXI is not going anywhere.. less people means they will structure the game around fewer players.. It might make a minor impact on the game if that.. but in the long run XI is still a profit machine...

Ffxi will continue under the Classic Games / Nostalgia Gaming bracket even when your great-grandkids are running around but it will be monoserver / game-club type of thing. But it will never die, classics live forever in all genres, and I can't think of a more classic game than Ffxi.