Quote Originally Posted by Armond View Post
Source? Sorry when you start using specific numbers I start wanting to see specific evidence.
/sea all and many of the database sites tracked log-ins numbers throughout the day.

the game lost very little of its population each year, abysea drastically changed the game. That combined with XIV caused multiple mass exoduses.

Even if there is no 100% definite proof, only SE knows the exact impact. The game went through 2 server merges in about 16months after abysea, that alone is enough to say how many people left. The game went from 2-3k players online at the peaks to only breaking 1k on weekends.

The majority of the XI's population was extremely against the changes the devs did with abysea and the level increases, and they paid for it with a huge chunk of subs that never returned even after XIV 1.0 more or less tanked.

XI was an oldschool game. The people who wanted WoW were on WoW. The majority of the players on XI did not want what WoW had. Most of them hated what WoW was doing to the genre. Making XI more mainstream when 99% of its subs were not mainstream at least to me seems like a bad business decision.