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

[ninthfantasy]

Also are you disappointed that Wow still has such a high number and that FF, Wild*, ESO, SWTOR and the like hasn't done all that much damage to Wow.

Thoughts on the matter.

Ngh! It's too strong! Quick, throw more MMOs at it! We must weaken this evil WoW!

...No. I'm not disappointed. A very popular and successful MMO has just dropped a new expansion pack... of course their subs will shoot up. A lot of old people will go back to check it out. However I'd put money on half of them not sticking around for long. It's kind of unfair to compare a year old (give or take) MMO with an mammoth MMO which has been out for years. FF14 is popular, and is a great game, but it's still very young. It won't even scratch WoW's popularity. Also, I don't think it's Yoshi-P and the rest of the FF14's team's sole mission to stop WoW... or even compete with it. So why don't you put away your little stir-pot?

[Kiara1]

Hmm why do we care about wow subscribers? It doesn't affect me since im not playing wow anyway

[Felis]

Beating Blizzard was never on the development plan.
Actually, they only targeted for around 600k players at launch. The reason why the wave of players at launch crashed the servers and the digital sell stopped for some months.

[Kaelah]

I don't understand why the aim of all new MMOs must be to steal away WoW subs.

[Zarzak]

What do you expect? They just released an expansion of course it brings back old players.

Personally I don't care. The damage WoW did to MMOs and the online gaming community in general is already done. It is too late to fix it.

[Roris]

Well it is the original that every other WoW clone and themepark MMO just halfway copy and badly implement their ideas and then just slap their trademarked mascots, so it's bound to attract more players than its poor copies. As for ARR, we can't really know how many subs it currently has but it's certainly not 2.5 million subs because that's just registered accounts. I'd say it's closer to 600k subs at best, but again they've never really stated clearly how many subscribers it actually has.

[Nadrojj]

Could have closed this after the second reply.

WOW has been around forever. Two of my buddies who stopped subbing reactivated their subs for the newest expansion. They'll play for a few months then stop again is pretty much what they communicated to the rest of us. WOW is established, has a great track record and a ton of subs. Ten years in to see that many people actively subbed is amazing and with the cancellation of Titan and reallocation of their dev resources I'm sure they can continue pumping out content for years to come.

FFXIV was never meant to rule the pantheon of mmo's, it failed it's first launch and has enjoyed a pretty much amazing first year. There are plenty more years to come with this game, I hope it sees the same kind of longevity that WOW has. I think WOW also grabbed a TON of subs when there wasn't really anything else out there to pacify the masses (hell i played wow for a few months of the year that FFXIV was down) and if you are actively subbing one game you enjoy why leave that for something else? I like ffxiv, WOW has a new expansion should I leave ffxiv just to check out what WOW has to offer? Nah I enjoy ffxiv. I'm sure that's how 90% of the WOW playerbase feels and more than likely attributes to the fact that they still have a HUGE active playerbase.

[ReplicaX]

I'd say it's closer to 600k subs at best, but again they've never really stated clearly how many subscribers it actually has.

XIV ARR Patch 2.2 - 500,000 active players per day.

I'd say your guess is far off, even more so now that the largest populated Country in the World now has access to the game. China. China broke 1M preorders.

I can safety say its over 1M at this point.

[Maero]

I am also on the who cares wagon, like really who cares that a MMO that has been out many many years has more subs then FFXIV.
People like wow they play it, people love this game they play it, is that not what matters most, not silly numbers?

[Xatsh]

Can't out WoW WoW is the bottom line.

People who love the playstyle WoW has but are Meh when it comes to Final Fantasy play WoW.

People who love the playstyle WoW has but love Final Fantasy over warcraft play XIV.


This game is almost the same playstyle as WoW. The chances of this game beating WoW is non-existant. We should be saying WoW failing to make a major dent in XIV. That is the more impressive part. I expected a bigger loss in playerbase with the WoW expansion.