FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[IttyBittyShark]

you know it is bad when people are letting that many houses go.

[CCheshire]

you know it is bad when people are letting that many houses go.

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU.

They had like 3k open plots in Aether a few months ago, which is huge since we rarely get added new housing wards.

[Supersnow845]

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU.

They had like 3k open plots in Aether a few months ago, which is huge since we rarely get added new housing wards.

“It’s a good thing that the games population is collapsing because there is more of the pointlessly limited stuff that never should have been limited for the dregs who remain”

14 players will literally justify anything

[CCheshire]

“It’s a good thing that the games population is collapsing because there is more of the pointlessly limited stuff that never should have been limited for the dregs who remain”

14 players will literally justify anything

Notice that I didn't say I agreed with the population collapsing being good or not, and I just said the EU demo timer was working as intended.

Also, I have a positive feeling that FFXIV will continue for many years with how devoted the doomers who continue to pay their subs to post here. So how many years have folks said the game is dying? What keeps everyone here if they all dislike FFXIV that much but have active subs for years now?

[All_Nonsense]

Are you sure, really? I mean, if the owners found a new game or lost interest in FFXIV, it's nice that everyone who wanted a house can buy them now on EU

And then people will say that the bubonic plague was good because it created a labor scarcity and workers were able to leverage it to their advantage and ignore that most of the people from Europe into Asia died. There's like 3 houses available in the entire game or whatever. Of course *someone's* gonna take one of them. By your metric, the game could have 6k active players per data center and it be a good thing since everyone gets a house.

On the bright side, a lot of houses are opening up for folks. But it's not a good indicator by any means. It's actually kind of alarming