How popular is this game?

How many users per day etc? is this game more popular than blade and soul and wow yet? just wondering cuz ims cared cuz of the new black dessert game coming out.

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Originally Posted by StinkyPuppies

black dessert

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Sounds tasty. :9 :9 :9 :9

WoW probably still has the highest sub numbers worldwide. After that I would say this game is next in popularity and Blade and Soul is not going to do all that great in the NA/EUR regions outside of the esports niche crowd. There was huge hype surrounding BnS but just go look at its reviews and what people think of it after its Western launch, not so flattering. As for Black Desert Online (BDO) it is doing (existing markets) and will do (NA/EU) okay but I kind of doubt it will do "great". It's got some neat features but it is going to cater to a very niche crowd and really the one thing that everyone that hasn't touched it likes to go on about, the character creator, is not anywhere near as amazing or really much at all what people think it is and is in fact incredibly limiting. So I would say that this game is not really under threat from BnS or BDO and is probably your best option for a WoW/theme-park style MMO, for now and in the foreseeable future since I can't recall any others that have been announced.

@Ashkendor

I see your chocolate cake and raise you some goma ice cream.
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FFXIV doesn't compete in the same category as Black Desert Online. It's more of a sandbox game with cash shop design while FFXIV is an all-out themepark with subscription model. Blade & Soul I expect to flop since the game design is pretty terrible apart from the battle system and arena.

I wouldn't be worried about FFXIV losing players, especially with a new patch coming out.

This game is popular enough that it's going to be around for many years, and probably with a P2P model the whole time. Really, that's all that matters.

More and more each week I'm seeing more returning players (possibility getting ready for the Patch).

Been loving it, but I'm Bias. :)

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

@Ashkendor

I see your chocolate cake and raise you some goma ice cream.

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It's a black forest cake. :3

I honestly don't care if it's popular or not, I'll play whatever I find to be enjoyable.

Sorta how like everyone hated Skyward Sword, and I'm over here going "yeah this is a p good game, so pretty..." Only matters if you like it enough to keep paying and playing it.

Final Fantasy XIV A Real Reborn has broken the World record for the most con-current logins in the history of a MMO. It actually made it into the Guiness book of World records.
It also broke a second World record Most subscribers in 90 days. A Realm Reborn hit around 2.5 million accounts in 90 days and then has hit 5.5 million at the 6th month period after launch

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

It's a black forest cake. :3

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I only noticed the cherries just now :P
Well how about black forest cake with goma (black sesame) ice cream for a truly classic (cake+ice cream) black dessert. Everyone wins!

First I will say don't be fooled by the PR when they say more than 5 million players. That is just registered accounts to the game not active subs. It's not more popular then WoW and i can't say for Blade and Soul because they haven't said how many people are playing at this current moment. I can say when I play Blade and Soul I see more people around compared to Final Fantasy in different zones with each zone having multiple channels so i think that is a good sign that quite a few people play Blade and Soul (channels can hold quite a few people in it).

Right now Blade and Soul feels more alive than Final Fantasy XIV at this current moment too be honest i consistently see new players in starter zones high levels in multiple zones and this is only one server and its not a high population one. People believe that Blade and Soul failed but in reality it didn't. I see so many people playing it, streaming and watching it so people have a interest in it no offence but sounds more like salty people who believe their game is the best.

If I have to be honest with you currently at this moment there isn't that many people online on Final Fantasy XIV, but a patch is coming out next week so the amount of people you see online will go up but then after a few weeks it will go down again. New players do come into FFXIV in my opinion I don't see that many of them and i go into main city areas often maybe its just the time i play? I don't know.

Also about Black Desert Online most people don't know that game has no end-game. When it releases people will not play it all that much. People just hype it up because of how good it looks.

Just to say you may get some bias opinions so i don't think things will be accurate. Final Fantasy XIV is popular as a P2P mmo (even though there are hardly any left so isn't much competition except for WoW) and there are people playing it but recently people have begun slowly drifting away due to the same content cycle which some got bored off.

Does it matter how popular the game is or are you just following the crowd to determine what you play?

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Originally Posted by Melondra

Final Fantasy XIV A Real Reborn has broken the World record for the most con-current logins in the history of a MMO. It actually made it into the Guiness book of World records.
It also broke a second World record Most subscribers in 90 days. A Realm Reborn hit around 2.5 million accounts in 90 days and then has hit 5.5 million at the 6th month period after launch

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Hey do you have the source for this?

About 5 million "players" according to the advertisements.
Who knows what counts as a player.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

About 5 million "players" according to the advertisements.
Who knows what counts as a player.

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RMTs are players too!!

You know what this game has and other MMOs don't? Constant developing.
No matter how many people play WoW, that game is still shit. And I am a dumbass for preordering deluxe Legion.
Compared to other MMOs (take SWTOR or ESO as an example), this game is doing great. And seeing people with green leaves next to their names in low level areas makes my heart all warm.
So it's up to you, whether you want to play a popular shitty game or a not so mainstream game that will appreciate the fact that you pay to play it.

To be honest, and I know I whine a lot in the forums about the game... I still love it way more than B & S. The reason is basically the subscription fee model, the p2p. In my opinion paying a subscription is more serious in business, more consistent, and more fair toward all the other players, we all play the same, and only skill determines our progress.

For a monthly sub game it's pretty high up there.

It's difficult to know how many subscribers are paying for the game. A couple months ago, someone did a Lodestone census (compiling data from it) that suggested around 700k people were actively playing (but there may be more subscriptions current than that). In a vacuum, that number's not very useful, of course. WoW stopped providing subscription numbers as of this year, and we don't know how many of those subscriptions were active players even back when they provided them.

We can guess that the game's successful, at least, as it's the only subscription-based game in recent memory that hasn't moved to a free-to-play model that I can think of, and it's been out for 2.5 years now.

The "5 million" accounts number includes existing accounts that aren't actively paying for the game, I'm pretty sure. My guess would be that, at most, the game has between 750,000 and 1 million subscribers right now, which is fairly impressive for a subscription game in the era of free to play stuff.

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Yet from that amount of active players only 150k-200k did 3.1 story lol. I am sure it will go up when 3.2 comes out because the expert dungeon is apart of the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Remus

Yet from that amount of active players only 150k-200k did 3.1 story lol. I am sure it will go up when 3.2 comes out because the expert dungeon is apart of the MSQ.

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You might be surprised at the number of players that actually don't care at all about the story. I know a number of folks that skip each and every cutscene (and they make me sad :( ). I suspect the 3.1 story completion is lower than normal because it didn't have any content attached to it (which is something Yoshi-P stated was done in response to player feedback).

I'm sure this is quite popular hence developement and content is still being added without the need to make it pay to win with like super gears in a cash shop, so must be quite alot of subbers makeing the need for that super low thats why only vanity items show up in it.