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

[Elim]

I didn't even know what WoD stood for until I browsed this thread. Lol

[Cynfael]

I didn't even know what WoD stood for until I browsed this thread. Lol

Same. WoW was on my personal radar for about a month. It was enjoyable for a short time, but I wouldn't consider trying it again.

[Sparktacus]

At the end of the day its not a fair comparison as we are still in vanilla 14 2.X no expansions yet, game is barely a year old. Of course there is becoming a serious drought in content, especially when they don't provide much engaging long lasting content at any patch except for SCoB. I expect as all MMO's ebb and flow due to patch/xpac releases WoW will see some of those numbers back, and people will leave and do that for a few months and come back here or stay there for all we know.

[Mahri]

The amount of people going, "what's WoD?" in this thread is testimony that a lot of the audience here came for this game, not just for a new MMO fad.

[HakuroDK]

Go back to interviews and even browse the 1.0 forums around ARR's development (since beta forums are inaccessible) - You'll see pretty quickly Yoshida wasn't exactly secretive about using WoW as the base model for ARR like they used EQ for the base model of FFXI.

I don't remember that at all. I remember Yoshida saying that he borrowed elements from a lot of different MMOs. I don't remember him saying anything about using WoW as a base model. Could you perhaps find a source that said those things? I have a hard time believing that.

Indeed, but he kept reiterating he feels WoW is the standard and wants to build ARR like that. That's why I said WoW still does it better since ARR is still having some issues in the 'borrowed' areas. So it's not that it's the only MMO they borrowed from, it's the fact he wasn't hiding that WoW is basically ARR's "role model." Which is why I said it'd be odd to go to play the MMO they based ARR around, dislike the more efficiently designed features, then come back and enjoy the more broken versions of the same systems.

One thing that confuses me all the time is when people say this. If you feel so strongly that WoW is the superior MMO, why aren't you playing WoW? That's not rhetorical, that is an honest and legitimate question. I really want to know. Because when I hear people on the forums hate on FFXIV for being inferior to <insert MMO name here>, I have to wonder if people are here for the sole purpose of hating on things. I mean, do you play this game because it's so bad and you want something to get angry about? I'm seriously baffled.

[GalkaBikini]

A lot of people, like myself, gave up on WoW many years ago. Some of us tried to go back for Pandaria and we all quit within the month. I personally didn't even last 2 weeks. I've been subbed to FFXIV since 2.0 release and will not quit any time soon. As others have stated, the MMO hoppers will do what they do and buy WoW's expansion, play a lot until they get burnt out (usually no more than 2 months), and then move on to another MMO or expansion. As for FFXIV's REAL player base? It won't affect it much if at all, since a lot of us that love FFXIV are playing it because it is more community based than most other MMOs including WoW.

Honestly, I feel sorry for anyone that still gives in to Blizzard's same ol' same ol'.

[Fumijj_Gah]

Seriously guys, no way WoW is going to damage MMORPG population anymore, especially FFXIV that has a solid one.
They lost more than 7,000,000 players in 3 years and (13 to 6) it's normal since it's getting old. Also, Blizzard closed with MMORPGs, they discarded "Titan" project and it seems they have no more interest on MMORPGs.

[Bluevann]

I'd like to ask "what is WoD?" before answering your question...

...but perhaps this is a sufficient answer already.

[Azper]

I can see there being a short-term dip in population due to people wanting to check out that expansion. However, I don't see it having any major lasting impact on this game.

[Chihaya]

Another one of Madruck's end of the world threads?