Is FFXIV up against the clock?

[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.

[mysterytaru]

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.

Widely accepted by who? Where did this number come from? If baseless rumors/conjecture/speculation is/are 'good enough' to use in place of actual facts, there's something wrong. If you have ZERO evidence to back up your claim, you have no business making the claim.

[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).

[Cyho]

I personally would not play diablo 3. But games like Tera do interest me.

I came back after a roughly 4 month or so, the UI did indeed improve a bit making it easier to play but the battle system still seems very unresponsive (I play a conjurer). Whenever I cast spells it doesn't seem to react immediately according to what I cast or when I wanna switch quickly between spells and normal range atk, it just won't react for me. Maybe I just suck at fighting or it just simply react very slow.

However, in general, it hasn't make me wanna come back to the game very much other than looking at pretty graphics and perhaps the instance quest which makes it no different than any typical rpg.

[whoopeeragon]

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.

'Widely accepted' numbers have ranged from 10 people to 100k in numbers. Now, I'm not going to be all nit-picky about a few extra zeros, but that's quite a huge difference. So such 'estimates' do nothing except cause more false rumours and numbers to circle around. It would be so much better to just say the FFXIV has LESS numbers, instant of actually making it a quantitative amount. The fact that this game has less people playing is true. So stick with that.

[Vesper]

Diablo III.. meh whatever. The only thing that will be pulling my time away from this is The Old Republic later this year.

[Jynx]

The thing about Diablo III is it's not designed to be a full-time game like a MMO. You play it for a few weeks, maybe a month or two then move on. Come back a few months later give it another whirl.

At least thats how DII worked for me. it never really killed my FFXI time.

[Eekiki]

Sooo, people are gonna play D3 for a couple hours before their Darkhold raid starts.

What's the problem again?

We have lost 90% of the people who purchased the game already.

Another statistic pulled straight from the fountain of accuracy that is TonyMontana's ass.

[Rinsui]

Another statistic pulled straight from the fountain of accuracy that is TonyMontana's ass.

Leave his ass alone. It's quite accurate.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...25-in-4-months

[Evenstar]

Not interested in Diablo III or Terra Online. I will stick to FFXIV, since I know it is going to get better and better with every single patch. The only thing I hate right now is that I can not seem to find a proper, active linkshell. As long as I can fix that problem I will be around for the next few years.