Why not borrow the good parts from FFXI?

[Talraen]

Whee do you figure that. If you Google play online vanadiel census for various years. You tend to see thecendgame community makes up a massive segment of xis playerbase.

In comparison I think even normal mode raids have a participation level of well under half of the playerbase. Seem to recall yoshi saying low 40s in discussion about creators lower difficulty and its impact on participation some time ago.

Ex primals and savage are lower still.

By "endgame community" I mean the pool of players who have fulfilled the requirements to do endgame content. And "endgame content" in this context means level 70 content. In FFXIV, that's everyone who's completed the story. (If nothing else, they all qualify for Eureka.) The FFXIV census currently lists 549k players who have completed the level 65 dungeon, and it's reasonable to assume that most of those have gone on to finish the rest of the game.

By comparison, look at some FFXI statistics: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui...192.1481641280

Less than half the player base (which peaked around 500k) qualifies for Sea, or any other gated endgame content aside from Sky (which is 6 years old at the time of this census). Because completing the story in FFXI was so difficult, the pool of players who could do endgame content was much smaller.

None of this means anything about who actually does endgame content, but FFXIV's available community is very clearly far larger.

Contrary to popular belief, FFXI used to be hugely popular and used to be the second MMORPG behind wow for a while.

https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...%2Fm%2F064ln09

Data doesn't show FFXIV to be more popular than FFXI was during its prime time.

Google trendlines are hardly indicative of who was actually playing the game more. The top related query is "ffxi wiki." The fact that FFXI was often too obtuse to progress through without Googling is neither proof that it was more popular, nor a point in its favor.