5 Million Accounts - Japan Expo

[Kumop]

As the topic title suggests, I would like to say Congratulations to Square and the FFXIV Dev team on making such a successful subscription based MMO. I love this game and am truly happy that so many others are enjoying it too!

*The above number does not include those registered on Free Trials.

Use this thread to congratulate Square, Yoshi P and the Dev Team!

[Source: IGN]

[Kaurie]

Congrats SE! It would be awesome to know what the current active subscriber base is though.

[Xystic]

It would be nice to know but all that matters is if you enjoy this game =)_

Cause I certainly do =)

[HReincarnate]

It was 4 million a month before HW iirc so that's a big feat.

Though I do wonder how many accounts from that additional million are down to Twintania mounts XD

[Galactimus]

The same info also mentions Yoshi hinting at FFX Blitzball and an FFXV crossover event being a possibility.

[Subucnimorning]

Congrats to Square and Yoshi, quite an accomplishment!

[AlphaFox]

I'd like to say yay too, but how many of those are just bots and sellers?

[KisaiTenshi]

I'd like to say yay too, but how many of those are just bots and sellers?

Not a huge amount, at least compared to freemium games.

A more interesting point is that gamers don't switch games, they abandon them. A while ago, we had a bunch of threads about "trying to get WoW players" by making the game have less story. Turns out that wouldn't get WoW players at all. People either like "that game" or they don't, and they don't switch MMO's like they would switch brands of soft drinks.

World of Warcraft market
A good example here would be the success of World of Warcraft that, as analysts explained to us ten years ago, has “vastly expanded MMORPG market beyond all expectations”.

Except it didn’t. It created a new market, World of Warcraft market, gathered new audience from other games in different genres, attracted quite a few people that haven’t played before, but haven’t expanded MMORPG market much. There were no big successful MMORPGs after World of Warcraft not because WoW took all the audience, but because there were never too many people in “MMORPG but not World of Warcraft” market to begin with.

I think when you start thinking in terms of audiences for individual games instead of broad vague “MMORPG crowd”, “MOBA crowd” you’ll start to realize that sometimes a huge success of one big title doesn’t mean much for everyone else. It doesn’t expand existing market or destroy it, it creates a new one.

So gamedevs need to quit cloning other games.

The fact that Square-Enix keeps FFXIV subscription means the game has a viable audience. All the Freemium games are can only hold their audience long enough until it's too frustrating to play without the cash shop and they abandon it the moment something they like better comes along.

[Altera]

Even if the 5 million isnt all active subscribers. The feat of going from 4 - 5million registered accounts within 6 months or so is pretty outstanding and it is well deserved. Yoshida, his team and Square Enix has truly turned the company around for the greater
Looking forward to Deus Ex, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Lost Cause 3, KH3, FF15

[Zenaku]

With ffxi,ffxiv and dragon quest as of start of this year had less then 1m sub together lmao. By now ffxiv should have a little over 800k active users but that going to go down once WoW release there new pack.