I wonder where all those players came from? =P
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Yay another FF14 is great thread!
We get it you all can stop making FF14 threads now.
I’m still not playing FF14.
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We need to circle back in about a month and see how many of those are free trial accounts.
Not only that, let’s say I quit after I play for 2 weeks. Does my spot free up or stays “occupied”?
WoW also has servers/realms with queue.
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Good for them, now just like FFXIV had to do when it’s game was failing, Blizzard will need to take a long hard look at what it needs to change.
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Exactly! And that is why this is good news. Blizzard needs to hit rock bottom and change for the better.
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The bigger question is will SE actually spend money on more server capacity?
Sadly we all know the answer~ Spending money is a big SE no no.
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They will be at the molten core by the time they decide to add Ear sizes customaztion. Wooo.
This is actually good news. It goes to show there’s still a lot of interest in MMOs. Now we need Blizzard to rise to the occasion and be competitive.
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Yes. In fact, they’ve been trying to throw money at any new infrastucture, but the global supercapacitor shortage is making it incredibly difficult for them to do this.
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Guess this should have been done years and years and years ago but who could have seen that coming?
Better to wait until you absolutely have too.
Can’t wait until they have to take a second look at that Frankenstein engine.
You’re like one month old. The servers have queues and character creation is intermittently turned on and off. They haven’t even installed any new servers yet because of the global shortage of CPUs.
I’ve been playing on-and-off last 1.5 weeks and the games not a “WoW” killer as people want it to be. The base game looks like a low budget PS3 game (probably the ugliest looking MMO maps I’ve played in the last 10 years) and you have to wait until later expansions before the quality starts going up. It’s story + narrative blows WoW out of the water, but everything else inbetween is different.
Both games can essentially co-exist because they target different audiences. One isn’t blatantly better than the other.
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Amazing game deserves their success. But its OK to like both games. I find myself playing FFXIV more these days. I just log into WoW to do some mythics to get garbage RNG end of week. Once i get KSM i think will unsubscribe will be back later.
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They were on track to upgrade all of their data centers for the release (or shortly after the release) of Endwalker. They could not have foreseen that Blizzard would bungle Shadowlands so completely that a mass exodus to their game would come to pass. They’re doing the best they can, and at least they actively communicate what they’re doing, what their plans are, and where they currently are on their execution timelines. When’s the last time Ion addressed anything about the state of the game? I can’t remember it.
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seems like the kind of issue a subpar mmo would have
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Gonna lol when people kiss their butt for not having the infrastructure to support everyone who will want to play the Xpac.
You can bet they wouldn’t let Blizzard get away with that.
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who cares
ffs enough of these
It’s less of a Shadowlands issue, but more of the result of a streamer surge. Asmongold can play any other game he wants and isn’t tied to the hip to WoW. So it draws in interest and people obviously want to try it out. I.E. its free press. I would have never even considered trying FF14 before then.
Playing FF14 it would need to seriously invest into overhauling the base games textures and graphics.
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We let them get away with that in a lot of earlier expansions.
The big difference between these two companies is that we get a written statement from the lead guy at FFXIV, and when something goes wrong over here we get radio silence these days.
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Not sure if you’ve seen, but Blizzard has stepped up communication recently, and that has more to do with the new co-president who just replaced the guy who left.
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A written statement changes nothing.
The head guy can write whatever he wants, but it won’t get me logged in.
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