Predict the population 6 months after PS3 release

[Rydin]

According to This site only 3 mmos have over 1 million subs, if everyone and thier mother wanted to play mmos now, then this would not be true. The fact is mmos still arent as popular as single player games because of the commitment you need to play them. Yes WoW got 12 million subscriptions but that is one game not the whole industry, WoW is probably about 1% of the gaming market.

Oh and yes the ps2 version required additional hardware, but you could fix that getting the PC version, which ran on buget laptops since the NA release of it.

I'm just saying, FFXI came out in an era where MMO's were not very mainstream.
But now, from Farmville to Monster Hunter to Second life... People are very into MMO's.

Also Final fantasy has a clear already present fanbase. Japanese players are hungry for a huge MMO.

Famitsu carries A TON of weight. A high Famitsu score and the game will do well, at least in Japan. As far as the west, if the game starts selling incredibly well in the east, westerners will jump on board. Not as heavily, mind you, but we definitely don't like being on the outside

[Abriael]

LOL. When the FFXIV will release on PS3 it'll sell a million minimum in Japan alone.

Go on with the doom and gloom.

[Zenaku]

LOL. When the FFXIV will release on PS3 it'll sell a million minimum in Japan alone.

Go on with the doom and gloom.

ya your right i think is why FFXI stay up to much due to japan alone having great sell on SE games.

Ads for FFXIV in japan was everywhere Computer shops had FFXIV running and even had a sign saying this Computer would run ffxiv at: This setting so yes your right FFXIV would sell big in Japan.

Now why can't they do that here? they never do that much ad for any of there online games -.- which they only have 3 now lol/

[Murugan]

They used to run television spots for FFXI in America in late 2003/2004 before Promathia was announced/released. They still run online advertisements for it everytime they release a new collection edition/expansion so I don't understand why people keep saying they never advertise in America, they obviously don't advertise it as much anymore but they used to when it had just launched.

They also advertised the hell out of FFXIII with whatever song they had in it, I'm sure they will advertise FFXIV when they launch it on PS3 too. As for how many players, I don't know or care as long as they continue to update the game regularly which doesn't require that many subs (certainly it does not require a million subs, or even 500k). In my opinion the game would be better served if it doesn't cater to certain segments of the MMO community, but that's just me being selfish not wanting to share a server with them obviously it doesn't speak to SE's goals.

If you want to see a company that doesn't support/advertise their MMO's look at Sony. This is not Sony, so as long as the population doesn't increase at all after PS3 release (hard to imagine that would happen) I'm not too worried about them supporting/pushing the game.

[Zenaku]

They used to run television spots for FFXI in America in late 2003/2004 before Promathia was announced/released. They still run online advertisements for it everytime they release a new collection edition/expansion so I don't understand why people keep saying they never advertise in America, they obviously don't advertise it as much anymore but they used to when it had just launched.

They also advertised the hell out of FFXIII with whatever song they had in it, I'm sure they will advertise FFXIV when they launch it on PS3 too. As for how many players, I don't know or care as long as they continue to update the game regularly which doesn't require that many subs (certainly it does not require a million subs, or even 500k). In my opinion the game would be better served if it doesn't cater to certain segments of the MMO community, but that's just me being selfish not wanting to share a server with them obviously it doesn't speak to SE's goals.

If you want to see a company that doesn't support/advertise their MMO's look at Sony. This is not Sony, so as long as the population doesn't increase at all after PS3 release (hard to imagine that would happen) I'm not too worried about them supporting/pushing the game.

Because 1 Tv ad back when wow was not even main stream mean noting to people. From that day on i have not saw one tv ad for ffxi and even the small of amount they had for ffxi in gamestop was noting like what blizzard and other company does.

[SuzakuCMX]

Maybe 150k if they can get Player Companies, Jobs, more raids, classes balanced, and Ishgard out by then.

[Picoman]

Hmm... 500k from Chinese servers, 250k for JP PS3, 250k from RoW PS3?



(+30k current users... lol)

[Misha]

150-200k... people are stubborn about bad mmo launches (especially in NA)... even with core features redone and tons of changes/additions most people will never really care that much to come back or try it out. Will probably be enough life to keep it up and running though. People will listen to what people say about the game and not form their own opinion, and most critics won't care or be anything but biased with the game over on our shores. So definitely going for low count (Also add in new mmo's shifting even more players away)

[Dyne]

SE was probably so ashamed of FFXIV that they didn't even show it in E3 2011. They might get a few PS3 players when it gets released, but there are so many games coming out from September to December that looks just glorious. So I say they might sell 500k copies, then maintain a little less than 100k subscribers. Then, there are also the pc players that are moving to Tera, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Guild Wars 2, so I can see 50-70k for pc and ps3 players combined.

I'm just hoping the reaction to ps3 release isn't like pc release: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHEhKo5Ils

[Victor]

I'm also of the opinion that this game may never end up actually being released for the PS3. Of course I'm not saying it won't, but as things have stood for quite some time it seems very unlikely. You can say things like, "Well, SE is always mentioning that they're working on it and it's still on track yadda yadda", but could you imagine what a negative and definitive result saying anything otherwise would have on the game? They're better off lying to us for the time being if that's what it takes. Of course once again, I'm not suggesting that I believe any of this is absolutely true... But it is a concerning possibility.