I don't know what can honestly be done for Final Fantasy XIV at this point.

[R041]

The immense irony of trying to using sources like Lucky Bancho, MMO-Population and XIVCensus to make a point while dismissing one of the only hard data points we have ever had access to.

Lucky Bancho has incredibly misleading methodology that has evolved over the years in ways that very conveniently inflates the numbers he provides.

Thinking that 7.0 will surpass the Endwalker launch is an inhuman level of copium abuse, and demonstrates a complete and fundamental lack of understanding of what lead to the EW population spike in the first place.

Just HODL for the next big wave bro, it's comin'!

[Ardeth]

Forum posters are the vocal minority.

100% accurate. The overwhelming majority get their information from the launcher, and even that is a minority. Most just load up the game.

[R041]

Lucky Bancho and XIVCensus pull from the lodestone to give a reference of player activity across all platforms which *gasp* is going to be more accurate than steamcharts where the extreme minority of players are at. The majority of people playing this game are playing the non-steam pc version and on console.

It's too bad we don't have an accurate representation of the other platforms like we do Steam. Because 'Active Characters' doesn't tell us much other than players having alts. 'Active Players' means nothing when we have Free Trial.

Woah, would you look at that - It looks like Twitch matches Steam patterns almost exactly.



So, how many players do you think are on each platform exactly to make Steam seem like a minority?

[Ransu]

At this point, I'm completely indifferent to the other continents.
Meracydia will be dragon stuff again, like we didn't have enough dragon content.
I'm also not interested in the history of the dragons anymore, no matter what it will be, it will be boring.
We killed all the bad guys.... end of story. Yoshi killed Final Fantasy 14 with his stupid choices.
Nobody asked for a single player game. No one asked for lousy content that actually isn't content.
Island Sanctuary is a bad joke. This is for the stupid people ... here you have an island, now click something 1 million times so that you level the island, build useless buildings for your mammets.
This is not content, this is nonsense. I'm tired of going to places that are in ruins only to look back through our echo and see how great that ruin once was, while now we wade through piles of shit.
Nobody wanted to see the 12, let alone fight it. That ruined so many things.
Garlemald was completely destroyed just because Yoshi was fed up with what his predecessor created.
If the next expansion came out in the next few weeks, I wouldn't buy it. If nothing really exciting happens from 6.5, then that's it for this game.
Because then there is no turning back for the train, which is heading straight for the wall.

A new continent means entirely new lore, new enemies new everything. Not our fault you're weirdly bitter about the game.

It's too bad we don't have an accurate representation of the other platforms like we do Steam. Because 'Active Characters' doesn't tell us much other than players having alts. 'Active Players' means nothing when we have Free Trial.

Woah, would you look at that - It looks like Twitch matches Steam patterns almost exactly.



So, how many players do you think are on each platform exactly to make Steam seem like a minority?

FFXIV has NEVER been popular on twitch. Using twitch as a metric for a game's population is the weirdest and most idiotic thing I've ever seen. Go doom and gloom somewhere else instead of wasting $14 on a game you clearly don't like.

[Aneshda]

A new continent means entirely new lore, new enemies new everything. Not our fault you're weirdly bitter about the game.

No it has not. We all know that Meracydia is about Dragons .... we all know that saving that Dragon from the 13th will leed to the next boring Dragon Story. Was Heavensward not enough Dragons? I am not bitter, I am bored .... and that is much more worse as just to be bitter.

[Ransu]

No it has not. We all know that Meracydia is about Dragons .... we all know that saving that Dragon from the 13th will leed to the next boring Dragon Story. Was Heavensward not enough Dragons? I am not bitter, I am bored .... and that is much more worse as just to be bitter.

Then unsubscribe.

[Hurlstone]

No it has not. We all know that Meracydia is about Dragons .... we all know that saving that Dragon from the 13th will leed to the next boring Dragon Story. Was Heavensward not enough Dragons? I am not bitter, I am bored .... and that is much more worse as just to be bitter.

To be fair, whilst Dragons are almost certainly going to be a main focus of Meracydia there will be more to explore there then just them. For example, seeing the races and cultures that worship the Warring Triad. Plus I think I think so long as the story hits different beats then Heavnsward, another dragon-focused story would not be so bad. I have long wanted to know just what they have been doing over there.

We also do not know for sure if we will be going there in 7.0. I mean, it feels very likely, but this could also be setting it up for the future akin to how Shadowbringers was set up in Heavensward.

[Aneshda]

You know Garlemald got full destroyed cause Yoshi didn't wanted a Stormblood 2.0 ... but Heavensward 2.0 is totally okay.

[Demolisher]

Then unsubscribe.

[RyuDragnier]

You know Garlemald got full destroyed cause Yoshi didn't wanted a Stormblood 2.0 ... but Heavensward 2.0 is totally okay.

There's a new writer for 7.0, and this is all he has done. Meaning don't expect another HW.