With WoD in a month, what do you feel will happen in to FF14's population?

[Vaer]

Game hoppers will flock to it for about a month or two, realize it's the same stuff with a different coat of paint and not really new, then they will lose the subscribers again to other games until the next new patch comes out, repeat.

Kind of like this game.

MMO "gamers" have commitment issues these days.

It will definitely affect this game's population, though.

[ShiloEET]

Game hoppers will flock to it for about a month or two, realize it's the same stuff with a different coat of paint and not really new, then they will lose the subscribers again to other games until the next new patch comes out, repeat.

Kind of like this game.

MMO "gamers" have commitment issues these days.

It will definitely affect this game's population, though.

Whether or not subscribers are lost or not is really circumstantial to say. The fact remains that with over 6 million subscribers inside of WoW, there is legitimately a larger playerbase. So it's impossible to rational what that means for ff14. One of the only ways of really seeing this is if the expansion pack and events leading up to it can significantly increase subscription numbers for square enix.