Is FFXIV up against the clock?

[mysterytaru]

What do you mean?

Official sources for your made up numbers or quit spouting them.

[TonyMontana]

Official sources for your made up numbers or quit spouting them.

There will never be any offical numbers given you know that. However 30k~ players is the widely accepted as the best estimate. Thats good enough for me.

[Lienmik]

I must say for one I have never been a huge fan of Diablo, I played it and i dont really like it. I have been a huge fan of the final fantasy series and I only stopped playing FFXI because of budget issues, and although FFXIV is currently f2p, once it goes p2p if I can only afford one p2p game it will undoubtably be FFXIV.

[Corrderio]

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[Eugenics]

That facepalm Ascii needs a bit of work. Head like Kryten from Red Dwarf, swollen hand and someone chopped off his thumb.

[Kaizlu]

I gotta say, I wasn't expecting D3 to be mentionted here. D3 is a big game, but as others have stated, it's a completely different market.

As for the usual suspects, we need to look out since Tera has an amazing director. And we all know how good TOR is gonna be, since you know, Bioware is listening to it's players.

[Xatsh]

Tera is way way to overhyped for a currently failing game... it has yet to do good in any market, including the nation where it was originally designed for. They had good ideas but atm unless they do major overhauls I do not see it doing much better then XIV honestly.

TOR we have to see, it is being designed for solo players more or less with very dated graphics and mechanics already. Though I have no doubt the story line will be good, that is about as far as my interest is in it. I am not a starwars fan so no draw to the Jedi thing, and everything else looks very meh to me. Game is just not for the mmo gamer that wants group based content from everything I seen.

I honestly do not think ToR will dent FFXIV Either... only mmo that stands a decent shot is probably GW2 and even that will not kill it off.

[viion]

Tera is way way to overhyped for a currently failing game... it has yet to do good in any market, including the nation where it was originally designed for. They had good ideas but atm unless they do major overhauls I do not see it doing much better then XIV honestly.

Kind of a weak argument compared to XIV lol.

TERA only lost 50% of its subs in KOR. XIV lost half a million worldwide. XIV is a worldwide embarrassment and failure. TERA is still surviving with 100k active and its PAY 2 PLAY lol. Not to mention now out in Japan.

Also you're wrong about the D3, I play XIV now and then, just waiting for it to become a good game so I only play now on updates, but come D3 (or any other mmo) I will be forgetting about XIV for a long time (probably continue playing on updates only). So it is not just those who have already quit.

[Jennestia]

Kind of a weak argument compared to XIV lol.

TERA only lost 50% of its subs in KOR. XIV lost half a million worldwide. XIV is a worldwide embarrassment and failure. TERA is still surviving with 100k active and its PAY 2 PLAY lol. Not to mention now out in Japan.

Also you're wrong about the D3, I play XIV now and then, just waiting for it to become a good game so I only play now on updates, but come D3 (or any other mmo) I will be forgetting about XIV for a long time (probably continue playing on updates only). So it is not just those who have already quit.

Viion, when will you just accept that TERA is constantly on the route to failing? BHS even admits that Tera is doing horribly and it continues to go down hill which is why the next major update they're hoping it rekindles interest.

(Yeah, there's actually others here who play TERA.)

Tera is falling off fast, (a lot faster than you want to admit.)

[Synapse]

i hated Diablo II, ill try to watch the D3's review.

Only way FFXIV is going to be success is if it tries to be unique like FFXI, not generic MMO shit like its doing now(it is getting slightly better tho).