FF14 Failing to dent Wows subs? Wow up to 10 million

[Jaykos]

Blizzard just released the subscribers count as of November 13, 2014 at 10 million subs. This is up 2.6 million from the Q3 2014 call that listed WoW at 7.4 million subscribers.



As Blizzard is a public company, it has to follow the laws, in this case, it needs to be transparent to the share holders. Which means, they have to show subs. So its a straight up legit 10 million subs after the launch of Wod in a 10 year old game. Pretty amazing for an MMO.

With Blizz releasing their sub numbers does it make you want to know FF14's sub numbers so the community knows where it stands regarding the games popularity?

Also are you disappointed that Wow still has such a high number and that FF, Wild*, ESO, SWTOR and the like hasn't done all that much damage to Wow.

Thoughts on the matter.

[Illya]

WoW isn't the enemy of mankind, and how many subs they have has no bearing on whether FFXIV is successful or not. Good on Blizzard for keeping that gravy train going as long as it has, now that they have canceled Project Titan they will have to work extra hard to keep WoW fresh after 10 years of operation. From what I hear a lot of WoW players are really happy with Warlords of Draenor, when they are able to login that is.

[Shneibel]

I don't know why you include FF in the try-to-DMG-WOW list. Afaik this game have not say any words about it try to beat WoW.

[Nestama]

My thoughts: who cares? People can like one game or another or even both. Heck, I'm finally getting a decent computer on December and I'm going to be trying WoW out for the first time (amongst others). FFXIV does get boring due to the lack of (rewarding!) difficult content :T

[Ahmbor]

Who cares!

[Zaft]

Turns out multiple online video games can exist at one time.

[LunaHoshino]

Are you really surprised that a game that has been around for a decade has more subscribers than one whose current incarnation has only existed for a little more than a year?

[Arrak]

I just resubbed to WoW for the WoD story. I'll probably cancel the sub after I play through it and get bored. I'm sure I'm not alone. The expansion released like two weeks ago. O.o

[Rufalus]

FF XIV probably should have 10+ million subscribers. It is excellent.

[Zumi]

A lot of people buy wow expansions to level up their old characters and see the new storyline. But then they don't stick around for end game and come back when the next expansion comes out.