Just checked the trends for Final Fantasy XIV

[hunkygladiator]

Listen to your community

[Carin-Eri]

Trends taken from where?

[hydralus]

And here are the trends since the game's inception showing the same dips/rises. In fact if we take this as a measure of success (which it likely isn't), listening less to the community has only given them higher rates of interest. In any case, I doubt they're going to start caring when they've gone through the same thing in prior years.

[LianaThorne]

Trends taken from where?

Looks like Google Trends, specifically the United States playerbase over the last 12 months.

Link: https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...064ln09&geo=US

[Reimmi]

Welcome to mmos?
Expansion launch, peak interest, players that aren't the dedicated fanbase go back to their seasonal games and return again for patches

Like i have my issues with the game rn mostly on a job design level but you really don't understand how things work

[Espon]

[Carin-Eri]

Okay - the two posts previous win the Internets for the month!

[Katoar]

snip

Worldwide is a better metric as US players are a small part of the player base




The interest in the game has been the highest between 2.0 and 3.0 launch

listening less to the community has only given them higher rates of interest

Overall interest has been declining ever since the HS launch so it is quite the opposite in fact.

The ups between 5.0 and 6.0 were caused by Blizard's lawsuit and streamers like Asmongold. The game is not in a good state.

[drtasteyummy]

tldr americans = zug zug brain

[LaylaTsarra]

Seriously are his MB sales that slow he has only this to do now.