For Legion, Day 1 sales was what was sold on Day 1.
For BfA, Day 1 sales included all preorders.
For Shadowlands, Day 1 sales included preorders for a much longer period than BfA.
For Dragonflight, hype doesn’t seem to have brought in people who bought because of hype in the past. There were a lot of preorder specials. But even so, numbers were down.
So none of these numbers are really comparable.
Ha ha ha ha no.
Define major? The problem with FF numbers is they don’t include anyone on the free trial up through Heavensward. A lot of people are in there due to the price of sub in their country. Also the game is just not built the same so it fluctuates a lot over the patch cycle. First 8-10 weeks are popping and then a fall off until new raid tier.
Wow and FF basically trade off on who has more active users based on content cycles.
That said most of us vets are taking a break. So we don’t get burnt out. Since 7.0 is going to be massive for the game with the graphical overhaul. Also the patch cadence is 4 months instead of 3 months this expac because of how hard they pushed during Covid and Yoshi P running the FFXVI team as well.
I’m fairly certain WoW’s getting the bulk of its revenue from the shop and services, not subscriptions.
We don’t know much about how many players there are, but we do know there was like 3 million DF sales and that there’s always a drop off after launch of an expansion.