How does FF14 compare to WoW? (And other MMOs)

[MonsutaMan]

Somewhere in the middle, with WoW, ESO and BDO being the cream of the crop, and XIV being somewhere between GW2 and games like that. WoW looks like it will be the mmo king forever lol......
https://altarofgaming.com/all-mmos-s...pulation-2018/

XIV is a top mmo, just not the cream of the crop compared to games like BDO with insane character creation, and Wow just being....WoW.....I feel they seen the mistakes made with XIV, and their next mmo may be the cream, of the crop.



FF fan, but just keeping it 100%

[MilkieTea]

Somewhere in the middle, with WoW, ESO and BDO being the cream of the crop, and XIV being somewhere between GW2 and games like that. WoW looks like it will be the mmo king forever lol......
https://altarofgaming.com/all-mmos-s...pulation-2018/

XIV is a top mmo, just not the cream of the crop compared to games like BDO with insane character creation, and Wow just being....WoW.....I feel they seen the mistakes made with XIV, and their next mmo may be the cream, of the crop.



FF fan, but just keeping it 100%

character creation doesn't really mean much when you can literally ignore every other aspect of the game and brute force your way through it. BDO may have numbers but... the amount of complaints ive seen from players rivals that of WoW

and WoW has been dying a VERY slow, VERY painful death for years at this point. numbers are key in THIS CASE: WoW's numbers drop about a month after expacs, and with no content to keep anyone but the most dedicated entertained, it's going to stay like that. WoW experiences a HUGE spike every single expac, and then a drop worse than the last, every time, with shadowlands being the absolute worse. Having numbers "by your side" doesn't mean much when the numbers show you're bleeding users and you can't even keep 10% of your subscribed playerbase active for longer than the month after your expac drops. WoW has only 2% of it's subscribed playerbase active per month as of writing this - meanwhile FFXIV keeps roughly 8-10% active.


Final Fantasy 14 - Souce: https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv


World of Warcraft - Source: https://mmo-population.com/r/wow

[Ralph2449]

and WoW has been dying a VERY slow, VERY painful death for years at this point. numbers are key in THIS CASE: WoW's numbers drop about a month after expacs, and with no content to keep anyone but the most dedicated entertained, it's going to stay like that. WoW experiences a HUGE spike every single expac, and then a drop worse than the last, every time, with shadowlands being the absolute worse. Having numbers "by your side" doesn't mean much when the numbers show you're bleeding users and you can't even keep 10% of your subscribed playerbase active for longer than the month after your expac drops. WoW has only 2% of it's subscribed playerbase active per month as of writing this - meanwhile FFXIV keeps roughly 8-10% active.


Final Fantasy 14 - Souce: https://mmo-population.com/r/ffxiv


World of Warcraft - Source: https://mmo-population.com/r/wow

One important point here is how final fantasy has a slow but steady increase of activity over the years even during non xpac launch months which is a sign of a far healthier mmorpg while WoW keeps getting spikes with an xpac launch that quickly vanish after many people who "gonna give it 123th chance" leave again.

WoW doesnt have a playerbase with a future, it is extremely toxic and unfriendly to new players which are pushed away by the ridiculous amounts of elitists, tryhards metaslaves and then you have the addicts and sunk cost fallacy victims who might hate the game but cannot imagine leaving because they ll lose all their manipulative time limited and exclusive rewards from years of playing bad expansions so they wont miss said rewards.

FF14 has a future because it has a better community and casual friendly design, WoW will keep their addicts hooked and elitists around but throughout the years more people leave than join the game.