Quote Originally Posted by genuine_stranger View Post
I don’t know, man. What I see is that we’re basically back to the same numbers we had before the WoW exodus during Shadowbringers.

And honestly? I don’t think that being back to ShB numbers after two full expansions is a particularly good sign. Whatever player increase XIV had during that time, SE clearly didn’t manage to hold onto it.

Whether this drop in revenue pushes CS3 to step up and put more effort into the game, or if they just keep doubling down on their current trajectory, we’ll only find out with the next expansion.
Given that we were never going to keep the "refugees" considering how different the games are, that we managed to hold onto at least a handful of them for two full expansions is actually quite extraordinary. And if you look at the average daily logins, we're in the same exact place we were during ShB and significantly better than at this point in EW. Likewise, we're considerably better than we were anytime pre-ShB. If the revenue was fine with a fraction of the playerbase back then, it's fine now.