sprouts, sprouts everywhere

[ryouma17]

last weekend there was only a few sprouts here and there in the starting cities but tonight theres hundreds of sprouts in all 3 starting cities and the starting zones i havent seen this many new players running around in ages when did ff14 become so popular all a sudden

[lezard21]

Famous WoW streamer Asmongold started playing the game recently and a bunch of veteran WoW players followed

[LisSquid]

Lots of free advertising.

Be sure to carry your watering can to make sure the sprouts grow up big and tall!

Edit:

It's not just WoW players. Of course there are a lot of those, but people have been going overboard with spreading the word about FFXIV. It's also summer vacation, so people are checking it out.

[Alxyzntlct]

I imagine it's likely due to a lot of other MMOs being overly hardcore in how they treat their player base (they think people are paying to play a 2nd job, I guess?), whereas Square seems to being actually interested in providing accessible fun for most everyone. ^_^

[van_arn]

Walk into the middle of a sproutfield and cast Nightbloom or Self-Destruct. Much confusion.

[Anienai]

Now if they would stop toggling their tank stance on and off.....

[Hycinthus]

The amount of attention is the highest it has ever been.

With WoW streamers and content creators joining, the buzz from the new Expansion trailer, the buzz from Soken battle with cancer, the buzz from IGN top 10 MMO with FF14 sitting at #1, the buzz of the free trial and the twitch collaboration with new mount.

[Soge01]

"How do you do, my fellow sprouts?"

[Enkidoh]

I've been remarking to my friends a lot lately that the three cities are starting to look more like nurseries with all the new sprouts!

It says a lot for the health of the game seeing so many new players joining continuously, and not just because of WoW's inexorable decline into oblivion and irrelevance - we are still in a global pandemic that is forcing many countries into and out of lockdowns repeatedly and there are still many restrictions on travel around the world so that creates a large captive potential playerbase, in addition to the northern summer (especially the US summer break). I'm so glad to see so many people giving FFXIV a go and stepping into Eorzea for the first time.

[ryouma17]

the buzz from Soken battle with cancer

i dont know what that is

"How do you do, my fellow sprouts?"

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