Unrealistic? Lol I do that every month with minimal effort. I barely ever actually farm or grind for gold- I sumply do what I would do anyway in the game and make enough gold to buy a token for game time and plenty more.
And this is the very reason they implemented the tokens as a means to get gold for money in the game in the first place. Those goldsellers were destroying the economy. Not to mention all the work they had to put in to restore hacked accounts not needed anymore, at least not in any greater extent.
C’mon now. Regardless of what you think of Blizzard, you can hardly accuse them of being behind ‘all the scummy things in the world’.
100 mount ++++++++ an insane amount of pets, different colors for transmogs vs 10 mounts and 10 pets in store, oh my god this is so unfair.
Blizz so greedy, wtf.
Read the comments , i’ve never spent a single £ since the wow token has been introduced.
Don’t buy a sub , don’t pay for store stuff , haven’t spent any money buying bfa or shadowlands. Haven’t spent money on blizzcon virtual tickets either.
I didnt talk about blizzard exclusively here, just generally find statement “companies just doing business, so they can do whatever they want” silly. And blizzard gets praise when they do things right, and get critique when they do things not so great. Thats a natural thing.
FF14 sells items that are no longer obtainable (event stuff etc) for those that missed it (or haven’t played that long ago)
ESO sells crap but at least gives you the currency each month as a part of your sub (think it was 500 coins each month?).
Heck even SWTOR sells stuff, BUT you can also buy all that scrap through ingame currency (so long as anyone sells it in the auction house equivalent) and you ALSO get currency for cash shop (cartel coins) each month as a sub. Not to mention subbing grants you ALL current and previous expansions forever. So technically it’s enough to sub for 1 month every time a new expansion comes out and you get it.
Blizzard demands monthly sub fee, bi-yearly 50+ euro for an expansion (not to mention back in the days most of us started playing WoW, you had to buy all previous bull… AS WELL, not just the newest expansion), and then has the GALL to put more effort into creating a store set than they put into all of the BFA sets.
Seriously, a clown outfit has holes for ears, yet everything in the effin game CLIPS LIKE CRAZY because they can’t be arsed to adjust it for every race separately?
Next thing you know they’ll be severely disappointed and confused why their clown introduction video has 10x more dislikes than likes.
Blizzard already has a store with extremely overpriced merchandise (like Thrall statue they’re selling now for 500+ to 700+ bucks (I laughed that the unpainted statue sells for 200 more because there’s no chance someone painted it wrong and you can do it yourself)
Take this with a massive grain of salt but, where WoW is merging servers, FF14 added servers at the beginning of the last expac (of which the one I play on has a queue to get in)
Does not mean that FF has more players than WoW (i highly doubt that) but subs have at least increased enough to warrant them opening more.
And here we have WoW that can’t even split the load to reduce lag in Nazjatar. Because someone thought it was a bright idea to connect the most populated realms of all of EU together.
Even SWTOR splits population in the same zone into several splinters (each has 100 players max - but as blizzard is a ‘poor indie company’ they should start at like 30 per splinter if they even manage it - if they DO have a system for it, then it AIN’T WORKING DUDE) to avoid this. And you can switch into different splinters (for world boss groups etc) just by clickin on it in map interface.
Not really when actually ff14 players just said there’s 5 items that were avaible in game previously then put on store. So it’s not so honourable as you may think.
Thing is, if the subs were substantially increasing and the revenue stream of WoW was “top notch”, then it would be guaranteed that they’d mention it in the notes on the fiscal reports. This is after all the document that determines if you invest in that company or not. The fiscal reports always say the same on WoW though, a short explanation on why the revenue was worse than the previous year, which mostly comprise of “release of (expansion name) with no comparative release this year”. What’s interesting isn’t the time when they release an expansion, but the years between expansions. Those numbers - when looking at them from a financial stanpoint - states that WoW is in fact not earning that much on a normal year. They’re still earning enough to warrant investment mind you, but they’re not the mastadone they used to be.
Who has more players than the other is only speculations as we don’t have any metrics to work out from. I can only speculate out from what I’ve seen, and there’s a lot more activity going on in FF14 than in WoW, despite the server being “full”.
This is false.
Yes you need a 6month sub (should just be that you get it if your sub lasts 6months somehow) however that is not paying real money in wow.
You do not pay more to get them than anyone else that plays the game.
For PC every number i can find the highest number is less then 400 000 people world wide. (last time i looked was earlier this year)
For consoles i can not find numbers. FF14 is blown out of porportions on how big it is.
There are no numbers, neither for WoW nor FF14. There are speculations, but SE as Blizzard keep their card close to the chest when it comes to player population.
As said I can only speculate out from what I see in-game in both games. In FF14 there’s always people in the major cities, be it Eulmore, Limsa Lominsa, Ul’dah or New Gridania, there’s always people. At least from what I’ve observed, FF14 has a healthy population.