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

[Jaykos]

Subs in Asian countries don't need to purchase the current expansion to be able to play it.

[KodiHivaer]

Why does the subs of another game even matter?
WOD's influx of subs will be temporary, and once people run out of stuff to do, people will leave the game once again and wait another few years for another expansion.

[Tupsi]

A lot of people buy wow expansions to level up their old characters and see the new storyline. But then they don't stick around for end game and come back when the next expansion comes out.

Sounds like XIV largely.

Log in - Cap Tomes, run Coil, finish Coil, log out and find something else to do until next tuesday if you didn't finish leveling ROG/NIN.

[Alukah]

huh? it copied quiet much from WoW if you ask me. besides some new stuffs like FATE (GW2)

Elements of WoW became part of the MMORPG genre, just like how WoW drew existing elements from older MMORPGs, it's really all there is to it.

[TessaJalloh]

In a year ARR got to 2 million subs, that's more than enough for SE to turn a profit.

Raw numbers aren't all that important over retention.

Also, there are plenty of people who play multiple mmos at the same time. people in WoW could easily also be FFXIV players.

And lets not forget that for every genuine player there's five RMT accounts trying to exploit them.

[Fahzewn]

Turns out multiple online video games can exist at one time.

Not only that, you can subscribe to multiple online games at once.

[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...

[Zaero]

Ok, that's cool. I'm not interested in WoW, so I don't play it. I play FF14.

[Tupsi]

And lets not forget that for every genuine player there's five RMT accounts trying to exploit them.

So the majority of the 2 million players are RMT, in other words?

[Delsus]

WoW has that many now, but that's only because of WoD, once the buzz of the new content has worn off subs will start to drop again, if you check the graph you showed it happened to both Cataclysm and MoP. During the life of MoP they lost over 2.5 million subs. The overall trend since 2011 has been a drop in subs.