How popular is this game?

[Remus]

First I will say don't be fooled by the PR when they say more than 5 million players. That is just registered accounts to the game not active subs. It's not more popular then WoW and i can't say for Blade and Soul because they haven't said how many people are playing at this current moment. I can say when I play Blade and Soul I see more people around compared to Final Fantasy in different zones with each zone having multiple channels so i think that is a good sign that quite a few people play Blade and Soul (channels can hold quite a few people in it).

Right now Blade and Soul feels more alive than Final Fantasy XIV at this current moment too be honest i consistently see new players in starter zones high levels in multiple zones and this is only one server and its not a high population one. People believe that Blade and Soul failed but in reality it didn't. I see so many people playing it, streaming and watching it so people have a interest in it no offence but sounds more like salty people who believe their game is the best.

If I have to be honest with you currently at this moment there isn't that many people online on Final Fantasy XIV, but a patch is coming out next week so the amount of people you see online will go up but then after a few weeks it will go down again. New players do come into FFXIV in my opinion I don't see that many of them and i go into main city areas often maybe its just the time i play? I don't know.

Also about Black Desert Online most people don't know that game has no end-game. When it releases people will not play it all that much. People just hype it up because of how good it looks.

Just to say you may get some bias opinions so i don't think things will be accurate. Final Fantasy XIV is popular as a P2P mmo (even though there are hardly any left so isn't much competition except for WoW) and there are people playing it but recently people have begun slowly drifting away due to the same content cycle which some got bored off.

[Lexia]

Does it matter how popular the game is or are you just following the crowd to determine what you play?

[OMGAFLYINGPENGUIN]

Final Fantasy XIV A Real Reborn has broken the World record for the most con-current logins in the history of a MMO. It actually made it into the Guiness book of World records.
It also broke a second World record Most subscribers in 90 days. A Realm Reborn hit around 2.5 million accounts in 90 days and then has hit 5.5 million at the 6th month period after launch

Hey do you have the source for this?

[Canadane]

About 5 million "players" according to the advertisements.
Who knows what counts as a player.

[Haprimac]

About 5 million "players" according to the advertisements.
Who knows what counts as a player.

RMTs are players too!!

[Synrin]

You know what this game has and other MMOs don't? Constant developing.
No matter how many people play WoW, that game is still shit. And I am a dumbass for preordering deluxe Legion.
Compared to other MMOs (take SWTOR or ESO as an example), this game is doing great. And seeing people with green leaves next to their names in low level areas makes my heart all warm.
So it's up to you, whether you want to play a popular shitty game or a not so mainstream game that will appreciate the fact that you pay to play it.

[l---------------l]

To be honest, and I know I whine a lot in the forums about the game... I still love it way more than B & S. The reason is basically the subscription fee model, the p2p. In my opinion paying a subscription is more serious in business, more consistent, and more fair toward all the other players, we all play the same, and only skill determines our progress.

[Kewitt]

For a monthly sub game it's pretty high up there.

[Alahra]

It's difficult to know how many subscribers are paying for the game. A couple months ago, someone did a Lodestone census (compiling data from it) that suggested around 700k people were actively playing (but there may be more subscriptions current than that). In a vacuum, that number's not very useful, of course. WoW stopped providing subscription numbers as of this year, and we don't know how many of those subscriptions were active players even back when they provided them.

We can guess that the game's successful, at least, as it's the only subscription-based game in recent memory that hasn't moved to a free-to-play model that I can think of, and it's been out for 2.5 years now.

The "5 million" accounts number includes existing accounts that aren't actively paying for the game, I'm pretty sure. My guess would be that, at most, the game has between 750,000 and 1 million subscribers right now, which is fairly impressive for a subscription game in the era of free to play stuff.

[Remus]

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Yet from that amount of active players only 150k-200k did 3.1 story lol. I am sure it will go up when 3.2 comes out because the expert dungeon is apart of the MSQ.