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

[Shurrikhan]

Basic logic and reasoning skills?

Suppose you've been a FFXIV player for a while - for the sake of this argument, we're JUST talking PC players. Like, for 5-9 years. Would you likely be playing on Steam or the SE launcher?

Obviously, the SE launcher, since FFXIV wasn't always for Steam.

ARR released on August 27, 2013. It is now June 27, 2022, exactly 106 months later.
ARR released on Steam on February 14, 2014, less than 6 months after ARR's release.


For over 100 of the 106 months that XIV has been out (>94% of its lifespan thus far), XIV has been on Steam.

People would have had to have played in the first 5.5 months of the game's ever being released for Steam not to be an option. Not "5-9" years, but literally 8.3+ out of the game's total of 8.8 years' lifetime.

Meanwhile, for 0 of 213 months that WoW has been out, WoW has been on Steam.

So what is it about Steam-launcher users (or anyone who joined in the latter >94% of XIV's lifespan) that makes you think they are disproportionately more likely to be WoW players? (Let alone that anyone who touched WoW must have a more negative view of the game that would make their perceptions of XIV invalid and misrepresentative? Or that PC players would be significantly less appeasable than console players?)