Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
Other MMOs get around this problem by just not having the story be a mandatory part of the experience.

For example, as I am typing this, I'm leveling an alt in WoW purely by doing dungeons. Pretty sure I've only done half a dozen quests.
Those other MMOs are not story Focused as FFXIV is.
Im not talking down or bad on them, just stating they are very different Games from FFXIV.

Quote Originally Posted by Shinkuno View Post
also, people excusing this with "story focus" must have played nothing but ff14 in their life. Theres thousands of games with story focus that still provide engaging gameplay, and from the get go, not 100s of hours in
Subjective.
But we are talking about MMOs here. Comparing FFXIV an MMO to FFX like Stormpeaks did is not really a good comparison. They are 2 completely different games.
1 is literally a singleplayer JRPG, the other is an MMO. Both are games, but not also function differently. Same thing if you were to bring in WoW, or Star Wars.
They are just different games.

Quote Originally Posted by Shinkuno View Post
Ah yes, dont use the things that are indicative of popluation for every other multiplayergame in existence... because uh... it would shatter VelKallors world
In case you didnt know...FFXIV is also played Via their own launcher, and on Consoles such as PS4 & PS5.
So unless Steamchats somehow factors in those players, no, Steam is not the main Metric to base FFXIVs playerbase on.