Majority of the FFXIV playerbase plays on the standalone launch not Steam, we also have PS4/PS5 players too. FFXIV is far from dieing.
Nice try tho
the currently online players on the steam charts.
We have two pieces of evidence.
50% playercount drop in a month + rampant botting even after the 1M bot ban.
This coupled with the fact that AGS employees don’t know/won’t disclose suspected bot accounts shows that the last remaining 50% of players are most likely infested with more bots than they care to admit.
I’m a New World veteran, if anyone has gotten burned by AGS hard it’s me and the other NW fans. We’ve seen everything happening in LA from a mile away, trust me we’ve been through this before lmao.
hmm idk that’s a bit much but cant confirm or deny as we have no idea , u just assuming stuff u don’t know i guess
New World dropped 90% of it’s player base in a month because the game was buggy laggy dogsh*t. You know how many players in NW were bots? A LOT. Did that stop people from enjoying the game? No. Stop being so hyper focused on so many things out of your control. All people do is complain, 24/7, on these forums. Enjoy the game or quit. Simple as that. Go play some Final Fantasy or some GW2. Maybe even some WoW. Kek.
also, stop assuming man. just makes you sound like you have a tinfoil hat on while you type all that garbanzo.
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Funny you say that, most people here are out of your control.
50% quit a month in with more to follow.
If posts like this trigger you then stop hurting yourself by posting here, just go post in other threads where no one complains and everyone just talks about how great the game is.
You have PTSD from New World. It’ll be ok man. Like I said, play the game if you like it, don’t play if you don’t. People will keep quitting, that’s just how MMOs go. If you’re surprised by this, then, I don’t know what to tell you my dude. Give it a few months and the baseline of players will be solidified. Gonna guess it’ll be around 100k-150k. Being worried about 600k players playing after launch is nonsense. Hell even call it 300k since half are bots (according to all whiners on this forum), that’s still quite a bit of players.
Sure, no one is arguing this.
You chose a discussion that you clearly don’t agree with just to post about how much other people are complaining.
Don’t you think you’re just as whiny as the people you call out?
That wasn’t the point of the post. Maybe go reread it then re-comment. Thanks.
Maybe we lost half the player base because they banned a million bots? My server is flourishing. It really only slows down after midnight because the majority of us work for a living.
This, my server has a ton of people. 0 problems doing any activity any time of the day. It’s great.
The point of your post was that MMOs are gonna lose pop, no one is arguing that nor was the point of this post lmao.
The game is statistically losing half it’s playerbase, AGS changes are not what people want and on top of that people are slowly leaving en masse.
Everyone who defended NW to the death said the same thing “If you dont like then quit” and then everyone quit.
I see the same happening here, a game that hit it’s peak and on it’s way out with people defending it to the death blindly.
it’s actually dying. 600k players in less than a month is a huge loss. You will figure out later that here in the West we don’t like Mobilish games wher you make a couple of daily activities and then wait for the next day. You had to make the game more “western” rather than censoring skins…
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As long as we don’t wait for any matchmaking longer than 2 minutes, for both PvE and PvP, it’s great. I’m getting PvP matches within 2 minutes, between 3am and 5am, which is insane. I wasn’t getting that even in WoW back when it was extremely popular. I had to wait for at least 20 minutes to join any BG or Arena, after 1am.
well, Lost Ark is actually following exactly the same trend of New World. New world didn’t moved from 900k to 20k in one day
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The only difference between this game and New World is that this game works. How many bugs have I seen in the past month? One. Where my cloak was bugged through the world.
Do you even realize that they banned a tonnnn of bots? This armchair reddit statistician spiel just has no backing and is based solidly on conjecture. And it’s boring as hell. Caring about player numbers is so annoying.
Now, if they game sucked, and it was buggy as hell, and there were people exploiting and duping with terrible combat…I would agree with you. I would 100% be worried about 600k players playing after launch, because I know that number would be going down to 25k active players.
And they came back with speedhacks and teleports and are in bigger numbers, they’re even outbidding real players in chaos rifts and running chaos dungeon groups.
Nice job banning bots in a F2P game, wow looks like they solved it forever 
Wow, really got me sport. You’re getting worked up over literally nothing. Go outside, touch some grass.
But it’s not following the exact same trend because the game actually functions.
Wait, so you are comparing a LAUNCH with people literally taking vacation time to a weekend in the future?
Apples and oranges aren’t in the same basket.