Is this game slowly dying?

[Xatsh]

With the design of this game. "WoW Model". You will have a large population drop towards the end of every major patch. Once the patch hits you will get a chunk of those players back for 1-2 months then they will leave again.

This model of game design causes a massive lack of content over and over again. Technically the quantity of valid content never increases in XIV, they just replace the old with new constantly which causes the cycle of players we have. (example is you are at endgame, aka capable of doing the hardest content already.... there is actually less to do in patch 2.4 then there is now <= this is bad.)

Is this game losing players... yea at an extremely accelerated rate compared to what happened with XI, but xiv also a much larger playerbase. So it will take longer to get to low numbers. People do not like having to wait for stuff to do, they try other game. If they find one that occupies their time they will make that their new mmo.

In my opinion this game unless it changes its direction and starts focusing on some complexity and more horizontal growth it will lose 40-50% of its subs within the next year or 2. The game has done good to replace all the people it has lost, but the newness factor is bound to ware off. And the new WoW expansion is on the horizon. I think the NA population will take a major hit once people stop coming to the game. XIV has little holding power right now for a large chunk of the community.

[TeaTimeBear]

I thought OP said they were thinkin of quitting in another topic they made..?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I thought OP said they were thinkin of quitting in another topic they made..?

People who truly quit usually don't make a public announcement about it.

[Yona87]

With the design of this game. "WoW Model". You will have a large population drop towards the end of every major patch. Once the patch hits you will get a chunk of those players back for 1-2 months then they will leave again.



Is this game losing players... yea at an extremely accelerated rate compared to what happened with XI, but xiv also a much larger playerbase. So it will take longer to get to low numbers. People do not like having to wait for stuff to do, they try other game. If they find one that occupies their time they will make that their new mmo.

So there is really no need to continue playing then.

[Fornix]

People who truly quit usually don't make a public announcement about it.

Even if they do, it remains a funny thing that they believe the rest of the world cares about that decision.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Even if they do, it remains a funny thing that they believe the rest of the world cares about that decision.

I guess we have a ton of narcissists then.

[Gucci_Charms]

People will come and go all the time for various reasons. This game cannot please everyone.

[ninthfantasy]

It's quiet time right now because we're all waiting for a big patch with new content. It'll pick up around 2.4, be active for a while, then it'll quieten down again. Rinse and repeat (until new expansion, I imagine.) Definitely worth your time as a lot of it is working towards a long-term goal.

[Roris]

Subscription wise? All WoW clone MMOs eventually start losing them in large amounts simply because of the way content is served, and ARR is no better. While the game might be gaining "adventurers", that's only because people are buying the game so those accounts inflate that 2.5 million number they love spreading around, there's also no clarification whether they're adding trial accounts into that figure either.

The reality is only subscriptions matter for an MMO and they've never outright stated how many active subscribers they have, the last estimate was an average of 500k active players logged on in a day, and even that is vague because not everyone will log on in a day and some of those 500k players might be on their 30 day trial and never subscribe after that.

[Xystic]

Played FFXI for years, its now "worthless" to me. Played WoW for years, its now "worthless" to me. In the end any game you play online will end up worthless to you, dying or not. Just play the game to enjoy it.

The only part that never dies or becomes worthless, are the enjoyable experiences you get while playing MMOs.