Quote Originally Posted by Kazgrel View Post
WoW is also a factor. Consider that a significant amount of (I’m assuming) would-be raiders here instead stick to Azeroth. So a lot of people/groups who could succeed here simply aren’t here, while this game commands a presence in JP akin to what WoW has in the west.
Well... no

Before FFXIV : ARR, we saw people from top world guilde doing the run to be world first on new raid. then nearly disappear for the game, just coming doing fast main daily things (when expansion has... not the case for most) and the weekly kill to have the stuff for the next raid. They have a really high play time for the first weeks and then, low... their game time go to others MMORPG or even other games.

Some people can do both FFXIV ultimate content, and mythic raid content.

Less a real thing with legion, M+ allow them to compete on wow 52 weeks a year. but not all do this (some just focus on loot with M+). A mythic raid is 20 people, only 8 is needed to do FFXIV content...

WoW and FFXIV are fightning each other on the "MMORPG with subscription" market. but many players does both. We can complain that FFXIV is empty. And probably FFXIV consume even less time than WoW. But it is not so hard to play both game... (just have to pay 2 time sub, but lets see people with 2 FFXIV or 2 wow sub... it is the same than 1 wow + 1 ffxiv sub)