Just checked the trends for Final Fantasy XIV

[MilkieTea]

Just posting this again so that people who immediately go to the last page of any thread get to see

[AutumnsHollow]

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

What are you talking about? NA has the biggest player base amongst EU, JP, and Oceania playerbase atm. Ffxiv census is a thing.

[GrizzlyTank]

Huh, comparing "Final Fantasy XIV" and "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn" Korea for some reason have higher trend in the latter search...

Do they have a Vanilla/1.0 private server up and running? <.<

[Shori]

Huh, comparing "Final Fantasy XIV" and "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn" Korea for some reason have higher trend in the latter search...

Do they have a Vanilla private server up and running? <.<

Yes they have a version of it thats a little bit behind the worldwide release. But they do get some stuff ahead of us like the mogstation outfits

[RobynDaBank]

"Men on-edge" KEKW.

[Larirawiel]

Trends taken from where?

From a crystal ball aka Google trends.


Cheers

[Derio]

This happens every expansion. We have huge population between X.5 patch and X.05 patch. Then during X.1-X.4 the population drops off. Many people only play during the expansion period and then wait until the expansion is about to come out to catch back up.

[Kolsykol]

Oh another dumb thread like this from the same person.
But if you call him out on it you're the '' white knight '' lol.

They are listening to the community that's why we're getting Savage Criterion dungeons, now go away.
I am honestly convinced at this point that we have madge WoW stans who are just here to troll at this point...

[PurplePickle]

Legit just feel bad for the OP. 6:30 in the morning and this Karen has nothing better to do than post troll threads on FF14 forums. It's pretty sad this is how OP gets attention

[UkcsAlias]

NA has the biggest player base amongst EU, JP, and Oceania playerbase atm.

Which can be because players did not want to change DC yet, a lot of players build a group of friends. And for many oceania players, those friends would be on the NA DC. Changing DC then would prevent you from playing with them.

Even when now they can go to the new DC and travel back to the NA DC, they might still not do that, since in the end, if they would be on the oceania DC, they most of the time still need to DC travel. This can cause very inflated numbers on the NA DC.

In short, the statement that the NA DC represents the US, is most likely just false (and note, other DCs might also still have inflated numbers, but as the NA servers very likely also have SA included in them, you can be quite sure that SA is another big reason for inflated numbers).