We lost 70% of our player base half a year in

[hunkygladiator]

People have been saying make healers more engaging since Shadowbringers, and it’s been ignored.

People have been saying endgame is horrible with lack of content and it’s been ignored.

People want better hairstyles and headgears on the new races and it's been ignored.

After an ENTIRE year of receiving player feedback and FAILING to do what the community wants, now we have them scrambling to fix critical bugs after bugs like the housing lottery bug.

What a joke.

I wanted FF14 to thrive, I loved Stormblood but the game is dying and on it’s way out.

Square Enix, changes need to be made FAST.

NOT in 7.0, NOT in 8.0, it needs to happen THIS EXPANSION or you WILL lose the remaining player base.

[ryouma17]

steam only accounts for maybe 15% of the community

[hunkygladiator]

steam only accounts for maybe 15% of the community

Unless you think Steam players and official launcher players have extremely different playstyles and personalities the trend should be similar.

[Ket-Xil]

Unless you think Steam players and official launcher players have extremely different playstyles and personalities the trend should be similar.

Correct that is exactly what we are saying. Steam numbers is pittance compared to official launcher. Do even a modicum of research please.

[Shurrikhan]

Unless you think Steam players and official launcher players have extremely different playstyles and personalities the trend should be similar.

Correct that is exactly what we are saying. Steam numbers is pittance compared to official launcher. Do even a modicum of research please.

Why? What is it about logging in via a different launcher that suddenly makes this sample of the playerbase unique from the rest? Why would logging in via Steam somehow make them less appeasable?

[Deceptus]

steam only accounts for maybe 15% of the community

Data point is still a data point. Shouldn't simply be dismissed outright.

[icemage]

Data point is still a data point. Shouldn't simply be dismissed outright.

Yes, it can be dismissed because Steam's data only looks at concurrent players. Players who have booked their PTOs for the expansion launch will obviously play less after that which makes the concurrent count lower. But that doesn't mean the active count went down by 70%. OP is just a doomer.

[hunkygladiator]

Yes, it can be dismissed because Steam's data only looks at concurrent players. Players who have booked their PTOs for the expansion launch will obviously play less after that which makes the concurrent count lower. But that doesn't mean the active count went down by 70%. OP is just a doomer.

The active count might not have gone down by 70% but it is absolutely not at the same levels.

[Mapleine]

steam only accounts for maybe 15% of the community

I actually don't think it's even double digits. It's a really small part of the community, which makes sense as there's only negatives associated with buying the game through another arm of DRM.

Game isn't any less healthy than the same point in StB or ShB though, anyone saying otherwise was probably not here. There's significantly more people around and groups up than the doldrums of 4.1 and 5.1, when Yoshi P said the game is still growing he wasn't running PR, it is.

Deliberately lying about your products health and status would also be an easy way to get it in trouble, this is why Blizzard simply stopped reporting numbers instead of starting to lie.

Now I just wish the unacceptably thin early expansion content would grow with it.

[Johaandr]

steam only accounts for maybe 15% of the community

yeah and we used to say the raid community is 2% lol