Why do you think FFXIV is performing so badly form the content creation side?

[Ultimatecalibur]

Bozja Southern Front actually has the potential to be enjoyable streamed content.

It will have:

• The surprise reward factor of common and rare lockboxes.
• Lost action drops.
• Critical Engagements that may or may not succeed.
• Possibility of streamers getting the coveted 1v1 match which they make or may not win.

[RyuSaarva]

Maybe FF XIV players are smarter and they understand that streaming is just a crappy version of a let's play so there is no reason to watch any.

[Peace-Division]

I'm less inclined to watch a FFXIV streamer as an active (sprout) player, in fear of spoilers. I'm sure there are others that feel the same.

This I personally believe is a huge if not the largest reason people dont like to watch others play this game. There is far too much potential to have their first time story and dungeon/trial/raid encounter experience ruined especially as many bosses names can be extremely relevant to sections of the plot.

[LittleImp]

It's just not an interesting game to watch.

There isn't much long-term content; Content is super accessible and replaying much of it outside of weeklies isn't really rewarding or interesting to watch. There's also a lack of interesting, hard to obtain goals aside from maybe the PoTD solo titles.

More popular mmo style games boast scaling difficulty, Randomizer systems or functional PvP. These kinds of features simply offer more interesting content opportunities for creators.

Getting weirdly defensive about it and trying to put other people down for watching other games is just kind of petty and sad.

[Lium]

You neglected to include the content creators on the Japanese video game streaming services. This isn't a NA/EU based game, after all. With so much of the player base in Japan, a lot of the content creators are going to be using streaming services NA/EU viewers don't watch.

This could actually be it. But I’m not familiar with the Twitch equivalent in East Asia.

The first thing I thought when I saw this thread was, “we aren’t an NA/EU game.”

[LittleImp]

You neglected to include the content creators on the Japanese video game streaming services. This isn't a NA/EU based game, after all. With so much of the player base in Japan, a lot of the content creators are going to be using streaming services NA/EU viewers don't watch.

The majority of this games player-base from its primary distribution are western.

Here's the most recent lucky bancho statistic:



554787 Active characters in NA/EU vs 307245 in JP.
NA alone has more players than JP.

[Khalithar]

There's not a lot of ways to iterate on the game from a content creation side as far as the gameplay goes.

I'll tell you what does make for some amazing content creation however:

Those creative types that do things with the game's music. Covers of songs, remixes of the songs, and those that do the songs with the in-game perform function. Those are what allow some genuinely amazing and creative work and there are countless videos related to that particular part of the game's content.

[Cyreil]

Unpopular opinion but I don't want to play e-sport esque game with an Asmongold personality attached to it. I'm really tired of having Mythic+ shoved down my throat.

Personally I think the definition of content creation isn't something that is solely locked to streaming and youtube. We have plenty of artists doing character commissions and constant memes being made.

But lets be real, you don't like the theme park. You want a WoW clone that brings in the drama because people watch drama.

[Razard]

Unpopular opinion but I don't want to play e-sport esque game with an Asmongold personality attached to it..

But don't you want some... person sitting in his dirty room, AFKing in (endgame hub de jour) watching reaction videos for 18 hours a day before being carried thorugh content because he is "famous".

Seriously, I never saw the appeal xD

[Lium]

The majority of this games player-base from its primary distribution are western.

Here's the most recent lucky bancho statistic:



554787 Active characters in NA/EU vs 307245 in JP.
NA alone has more players than JP.

Might be a dumb question but are active characters the same as players?