Just checked the trends for Final Fantasy XIV

[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.

[Katoar]

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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.

[Jeeqbit]

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.

Baseless.

According to Lucky Bancho data over the game's history, the active characters during patch lulls (which is a good estimate of permanent subscribers) has grown by 200,000 every expansion. This expansion it has had at least double that. Where it used to float around 600,000, now it floats over a million.

[Psytic]

Baseless.

According to Lucky Bancho data over the game's history, the active characters during patch lulls (which is a good estimate of permanent subscribers) has grown by 200,000 every expansion. This expansion it has had at least double that. Where it used to float around 600,000, now it floats over a million.

Just came in here to say this to. Nothing to see here. Pop is well within the usual norms. Although I would like them to listen more on certain things it doesn't hurt.

[TaleraRistain]

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.

The game is not in a good state, but players killed Data Center travel with 15,000 requests a minute, essentially DDoSing the system.