Why telling people to unsub is a horrible defense of the game.

[caffe_macchiato]

Has anyone seen this? Lucky Bancho is showing that the "unsub and play other games" faction is winning hardcore. This graph shows the number of people who have gotten a single new achievement in the past month. In other words, active players. Notice how Endwalker compares with the other expansions.



Is this really a good thing, and are we still supposed to like it?

https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/57775035.html

[ZephyrMenodora]

Has anyone seen this? Lucky Bancho is showing that the "unsub and play other games" faction is winning hardcore. This graph shows the number of people who have gotten a single new achievement in the past month. In other words, active players. Notice how Endwalker compares with the other expansions.



Is this really a good thing, and are we still supposed to like it?

Can you explain what the blue, red, and green lines mean?

[Mimilu]

Can you explain what the blue, red, and green lines mean?

For anyone who didn't google-translate the link, this graph shows trends in achievements. The right side of the graph is for player number, and the bottom shows time periods.
From what I can gather (which you should take with a grain of salt because I don't read Japanese and using google-translate):
Blue is "New" for the number of characters whose first achievement was recorded during that time (i.e. new players when they were new).
Red is "Continuing" for characters whose achievements were confirmed during the time period but aren't new players.
Green is "Last" or "Final" for the number of characters whose achievements are from after their initial release time period. (This one confused me the most and if anyone can actually translate it, it would help (;´Д`)).

The graph starts from when achievements were first available back in Legacy.

[MisterNublet]

Has anyone seen this? Lucky Bancho is showing that the "unsub and play other games" faction is winning hardcore. This graph shows the number of people who have gotten a single new achievement in the past month. In other words, active players. Notice how Endwalker compares with the other expansions.



Is this really a good thing, and are we still supposed to like it?

https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/57775035.html

Looking like WotLK/Cataclysm all over again. An absolute shock to no one who has played MMOs outside of only FFXIV.

ShB had a story that carried the expansion (and Field/Foray Bozja) that helped mask how bad the gameplay was. EW doesn't have that luxury, and now the lack of content and overly simplified and lackluster gameplay has reared up, and people are becoming bored.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Looking like WotLK/Cataclysm all over again. An absolute shock to no one who has played MMOs outside of only FFXIV.

ShB had a story that carried the expansion (and Field/Foray Bozja) that helped mask how bad the gameplay was. EW doesn't have that luxury, and now the lack of content and overly simplified and lackluster gameplay has reared up, and people are becoming bored.

It's also coupled with the large amount of good games released this year as well and will likely continue for a bit with things announced coming already. We may also see new things on the horizon with the Tokyo Games Show in a few days.