Second Most Popular Subscription-Based MMO

[AckersFury]

WoW is only no.1 because most of its subs have been playing it for the past ten years and simply can't turn there back on it, which is understandable, it's not a bad game, just personally don't think it deserves the amount of subs it has, if it had been released in today's market it wouldn't be nowhere near where it is...pure lightning in a bottle,....but good for them!

[Xaela]

Pretty sure FFXIV will bypass WoW very soon!

[Nadirah]

Pretty sure FFXIV will bypass WoW very soon!

I hope not.

Bigger doesn't always mean better.

[Darkstorms]

WoW is only no.1 because most of its subs have been playing it for the past ten years and simply can't turn there back on it, which is understandable, it's not a bad game, just personally don't think it deserves the amount of subs it has, if it had been released in today's market it wouldn't be nowhere near where it is...pure lightning in a bottle,....but good for them!

Honestly pre WoD i still would have said that it was the best theme park MMO on the market by a fair margin...... however that expansion sucked so bad and with such a large amount of people working on wow and all the $$ they have available there is really no excuse.

I think FFXIV is in a pretty good place but i feel the actual number of people playing and subbed to the game is a much more modest number than they would have you believe ,square can't get complacent and i believe their needs to be less barriers of entry to new players in order to keep the game on an upward trend.

[Xaela]

I hope not.

Bigger doesn't always mean better.

Agreed, but at least WoW has been around long enough to be dragged very far down the drain (this isn't a WoW hate post btw, I used to play the game for many, many years).
Whatever negative potential higher popularity will have on FFXIV, I doubt it will be instant. If it happens, it probably will be over time and not something to worry about yet.

[Warlyx]

but still has sub based options so can fall into that categorey aswell XD

aion , eq1 and eq2 has sub option too , so do lots of "f2p" that doesnt make those game p2p

[Zenif]

I recently came over from GW2 and i gotta say i'm really feeling the P2P difference. I hope more games will go P2P giving me all the content for my sub, rather then having me watch things go into cash shops, while the base content sufferes from updates once in a blue moon.

At any rate i hope FF XiV will stay on the P2P ship, and show it can be done, even when the start was more the just rocky. Because most failed P2P didn't fall because of the business model, but because being a terrible value for their price. Repeat that few times (ESO, WildStar) and everyone thinks P2P is the harbinger of doom...

[Kaedan]

I hope not.

Bigger doesn't always mean better.

Why do you hope that SE doesn't get more money, ensuring that we'd get content for a long time to come?

I never understood the irrationality of statements like this. Just because a game becomes popular or gets a large population doesn't affect the quality of the game. SE and Yoshi-P are going to continue to make FFXIV like they have been, regardless of if it surpasses WoW's players. The only thing that could change the game for the worse (or possibly better) would be if Yoshi-P and the developers changed.

[Chevrefoil]

who's still playing WoW? there're so many better games than that and a lot of them a B2P and F2P.

I know.

But if they haven't left WoW yet, they probably aren't going to. I have alot of friends who still play and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. I guess it's a habit? Dunno. I know the only reason I stuck around for so long was because of my friends who were playing but even that eventually became not enough.

[DragonFlyy]

WoW, EQ, EQ2, FFXI, FFXIV, EVE, LOtRO. I'm sure I missed a few.

Just a personal opinion, but if there is an F2P option, then I don't count it as a sub based game. So EQ, EQ2 and LotRO are out of that list ... for me anyway.