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

[ShiloEET]

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.

Actually they said sometime this year that "World of Warcraft 2" was now becoming more than possible.

[Starlord]

How it always is for WoW Expansions now in days:

- 2-4 weeks of WoD
- Back to whatever game they were at ( unless you were always playing WoW, then you will play alot longer)

[Tupsi]

I didn't mean to say if that you were jaded.

The way you said it is pretty jaded and actually defined as a personal attack though. Anyone who's kept up with ARR development already knows that's basically what he's been saying, because he said he wanted to essentially do what they did with XI by using EQ as the base.

[Mahri]

On topic, I'm on the fence. This game is my haven away from WoW and their asinine "lore".

It kinda depresses me to agree with this. As fun as some of the new features look that are rolling in with WoW 6.0, the story has been a mess since Cataclysm, particularly coming after Wrath which had some of the most intensely satisfying storyline payoff I've ever felt in a game. While Pandaria had some really fun vignettes, the main plotline of Warcraft continues to be an ugly mess dominated by painfully unlikeable NPCs.

XIV:ARR seems to have set out with the explicit purpose of making players feel like a true, vital part of the setting, in both a gameplay and lore sense. You see a bunch of crazy awesome adventurers running around and everyone's personally saved the world at least once or twice because that is what happens in Eorzea. The NPCs are kept relatively low-key and complement, rather than eclipse, the role of player characters, and the sense of immersion and investment felt from this kind of pointed, deftly-wrought design and writing philosophy never ceases to charm.

[ShiloEET]

The way you said it is pretty jaded and actually defined as a personal attack though. Anyone who's kept up with ARR development already knows that's basically what he's been saying, because he said he wanted to essentially do what they did with XI by using EQ as the base.

WoW is inspired by Everquest. In a more serious way though. It's rough to say this game is inspired by WoW alone. The fact remains that WoW didn't have things like quest tracking at launch. These features are actually from games like Aion. WoW has quest tracking too now, but not at launch.

So the raid progression is more like WoW. That's a truth.

[madolyn]

it will probably drop...especially if they don't hurry the hell up and push 2.4 out before november.

WoW is inspired by Everquest. In a more serious way though. It's rough to say this game is inspired by WoW alone.

it's not "rough to say" when yoshi p himself said xiv was modeled directly after WoW.....

[Sadana]

Hm. I think some servers are gonna be hit more than others. Buddies who played WoW before may go back as a group leaving some FCs kinda vacant. My server... I haven't heard a peep about WoD (I keep seeing World of Darkness too...), but we do have a good proportion of console players in my FC (like half or more) and many for whom XIV is their first mmo. Personally, I'm a bit more curious about what will happen when EQN comes out on ps4. >.>;

[Dwill]

The way you said it is pretty jaded and actually defined as a personal attack though. Anyone who's kept up with ARR development already knows that's basically what he's been saying, because he said he wanted to essentially do what they did with XI by using EQ as the base.

Your personal interpretations doesn't equal what he actually said. Now if you want to prove me wrong, feel free to post some sources though we both know that's highly unlikely of you.

it's not "rough to say" when yoshi p himself said xiv was modeled directly after WoW.....

Citation needed. Being modeled directly from and being taken inspiration from are two different things.

[Wizhard]

Oh come on ARR is basically WoW-Lite plus armory system, minus open world, anyone who played WoW and ARR can see this clearly.

On topic though, there are quite alot of players here that played WoW and im pretty sure alot of them will check WoD out but there was a reason they stopped playing.
I played WoW for 6 and a half years and while i have fond memories of it the direction they took with both the story and gameplay in Cataclysm put me off, and from what ive heard Pandaria did not fix any issues and story went even further to the shitter.
So i wont be checking it out, unless my old wow friends will drag me to it.

[ShiloEET]

Oh come on ARR is basically WoW-Lite plus armory system, minus open world, anyone who played WoW and ARR can see this clearly.

It ends up being the same idea and the same level of execution. The fact remains is there's the Japanese alternative, and the Western leader of the market. The other Asian market is less significant.