I wouldn’t be so sure about that this time.
It used to be as you said. People getting tired of wow, going to other games. Coming back eventually.
This time however, it won’t be so easy. a lot of people already permanently left this game for FF.
And it’s not about FF being a wow killer either.
Wow killed itself.
So much of wishful thinking. But the truth is that nothing will really change.
Some of you will be very surprised.
WoW will be anyway top1 mmo because it’s just really good game and quality will win in longer peroid of time. As always. There’s still no mmo on the market that’s really objectively better.
FF14 too will be fine. Same as GW2 is still fine and ESO. However it won’t maintain such popularity as WoW. These games offer too little for that to happen. Once ff14 marketing campaign will end “everyone” will again forget about this game.
Mmo players mood is changing no matter if they get high quality product or not. It was always like that. Also many WoW players never experienced real problems in mmo, so they’re chasing the mice in their heads. So even if Blizzard will do same things as always then at some point players mood will change anyway and they’ll be praising Blizzard for something (new patch / expansion / changes / […] even if quality of this content will be the same as right now).
Also current situation will be good for WoW. Cause some players will finally face real problems in other mmo’s and they’ll look more realistically at WoW after that. And they’ll miss those minor problems which WoW has.
Sorry to break your bubble, but it has been estimated that FFX14 has more active player/sub than retail.
You probably are blizzard dev on hidden acc who repeats that words to himself to justify every crappy content which he delivers, 9.1 for example.
Sorry to break your bubble, but it has been estimated that FFX14 has more active player/sub than retail.
Even if it had (what I doubt) then it was only for few days. Right now sites shows that WoW has more players again.
Also for us most important is EU population. And WoW is very popular in our region.
For example: in WoW I know hundreds of active guilds with people from my country.
In FF14 are just few - I can count them on fingers of one hand.
Why do you care so much about the population from Asia, while you won’t play with those ppl anyway?
While in WoW most population of players comes from NA or EU,
then in FF14 it’s mainly Asia. So most of their playerbase is anyway irrelevant for you.
FF14 is 250% less likely to give you carpal tunnel syndrome.
Its more safe to assume that China tops that. Not together but separately. WoW is also one of its dominant mmorpgs.
FF died after 12, so nope.
FF died after 12, so nope.
IMO after 10 actually.
Not me, tried it at the start and it was poor. Then they came up with ARR and it was generic with an FF flavour so it did better - fair play but to start that game now gives a huge and tedious slog - crafting is still the most horrible thing I have ever seen in an MMO
Actually I would say its the opposite. WOW has been around much longer and has an older player base, while this current version of FFXIV came out in 2013, so the player base would be younger.
Asmongold set the date for his streaming FFXIV at his charity event last weekend, so he has to stream it, I know he said he was going to try it but he never mentioned a date. My guess tomorrow will be a full blown troll a thon on how “Weeb” FFIXV is and how bad it is compared to WOW. It may break Twich records as he once said he would never ever play FFXIV.
That’s literally impossible in the content that is pugged. Savages and ultimates are different story, but then you don’t do them with total strangers.
Wont change my point. Also as i said it depends on context. The odds for one of your group reporting you for that in a savage or ultimate is well…pretty much 0.1% or something.
Do we need another topic like this? And starting it with “yea this is bait” yea…gg…from what I heard he didn’t even play the game and is already back on wow.
bloody hell. You went through ARR TWICE? No wonder you hate it.
That’s like going through BFA content twice in a row without even seeing the legion, mop stuff. That’s brutal.
I really hope his fans stay and hate FFXIV, we really don’t need their kind in the game.
He will only bring all the toxicity with him.
It’ll most likely end up like ESO, hes gonna milk what he can out of the current trend. Then go back to where he makes his money. FFXIV is good to play, not that great to stream.
I never watch any FFXIV streamers at all. I’m busy doing the content myself.
Where as in WoW i love watching proffs run Mythic raids and high keys. Simply because i don’t do that myself, and probably never will.
But at this point, people watch him for who he is. And not because of the game he plays.
My favourite bald streamer is playing a flashy weeb game? Oh man can’t wait to play it for 10 seconds then return to wow
Toxic how he is, I give him 1 month before get banned or back to wow.
But on the good side he will take all his toxic community with him out of wow.
Not me because I can make up my own mind and don’t need to boost someone’s ego and viewer count to do so.
It’s Pay2Win yet Genshin Impact is a game I’m currently playing, Final Fantasy has a subscription-based model!?.. and I don’t think I will ever play that game.
Some of the gameplay I’ve seen and heard about the GCD, which would make it feel like a turn-based game, which I don’t like, so yeah, Final Fantasy is not for me.
To be honest, I did go off to FFXIV to see what all the fuss was about after reading these forums, not for me to be honest, maybe if it had come out in 2006 when I started WoW, I may have given it a higher regard. It just seems so, boring and on rails, maybe just me, but I am glad I didn’t actually pay for it, as it is now uninstalled and lying amongst the ruins and remains of my other Steam titles.