FF14 Failing to dent Wows subs? Wow up to 10 million

[Nalien]

When was the last time we actually got any official subscription numbers? I'd actually be interested in comparing XIV after a year and a bit to WoW back then...

[Alukah]

When was the last time we actually got any official subscription numbers? I'd actually be interested in comparing XIV after a year and a bit to WoW back then...

Not sure if we can really draw any comparisons, back then WoW was an industry revolutionary, while FFXIV is a good MMO, but just "yet another MMO", this in an era where Korean developers are shipping several f2p MMOs per year.

What WoW did back then compared to the older, more time consuming MMOs is what earned them a large loyal playerbase that will keep coming back even after they quit, just to try new content.

In the end streamlining the genre was a good idea, this game is trying to achieve the same so I expect it to stay up for a long time.

[Jaykos]

When was the last time we actually got any official subscription numbers? I'd actually be interested in comparing XIV after a year and a bit to WoW back then...

Absolutely would love official sub numbers for FF. All we have is "2.5 million players" with no info whether that's actual subs, subs with trials, accounts made or even just boxes sold. Wow with 12 months on the market was at 4.5 million subs so it would be good to compare.

Opinions on MMOchampion about FF's subs range from people believing that it has 2.5 million subs to hovering around 300k teetering on a f2p announcement so it would be good to get the truth out there.