A 20 year old game. Yeah. Why is it that MMORPGs are getting screwed. Why is it that FF14 is now down to 6 digits worth of players. Why is it that most MMORPGs fail miserably shortly after they launch.
Guessing the topic is a lot more difficult to call than any of us here have been willing to call, heh. for no matter how long we’ve been posting.
Ard, I’m aware of his history enough. I watched the diatribe involving alts and who can report who and how, and how many character switches.
If he wants to talk, I’ll be fine with hearing him out. May not go well, but, if he wants to speak, I’ll hear it out.
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Because it’s back to it’s normal growth patterns. The only time it broke over a million was during the end of Shadowbringers/beginning of Endwalker during the WoW exodus. Once that bubble was mostly gone, it actually showed growth lol.
FF14 has always had a steady growth curve, it never had a WoW level explosion like WoW did during Vanilla-Wrath, which the game is still running off of, by the way.
I’ve been a healer for years in this game, and I most definitely wouldn’t want to try to heal with a controller. There just aren’t enough buttons to handle all my totems, heals, and other utility without doing some complex face button control-scheme-switching nonsense. And trying to heal on such a tiny screen is a non-starter for me as well.
No offense, but, most would scream bloody murder if Wow ever even remotely dropped that far. The claims that FF14 picked up millions due to the blizzard HR debacle. And yet now, why is FF14 down to 6 digits by their own community’s admission? What’s changed?
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MMORPGs are a big finical gamble.
Particularly these days but if anyone ever created one with a decent hook it could potentially re-invigorate the market as these days there hasn’t been anything approaching a WoW killer in years.
Was never a thing, only trolls on the WoW forums said that lol.
Nothing, the game is still growing. More people playing the game now than at the start of Shadowbringers.
… Err… Seriously? The FF14 volunteer brigade, were never anything you ever acknowledged here? All these many years?
Only trolls? I mean, sure, trolls were a problem, but cripes, they sure had a fair bit of help.
You never saw any of them?
when blizzard’s HR silliness happened, which side did you take?
Well, this just got more interesting, heh.
Yeah. It was a wee smidgen of a train wreck. Media had a field day. Several sponsors, artists, etc decided “NOPE, NOT HAPPENING”. and basically bailed on sponsor and association.
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Ok, still didn’t answer the question.
There was a fairly nasty bit that came up. Hammer blizzard to the wall, or don’t. Went over on either side about as much as a lead balloon. On our forum, and FF14’s. They were gloating about it, the ones here desperate for this game to fail, the same.
A fair bit of drama for a time here.
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Neat, still didn’t answer the question on ‘sides.’
My apologies. Which part were you confused by?
When the drama showed up, what was your opinion against or for them?
Playable on controller (subpar performance) = coming to the console market.
Yeah, I think there might be a little more to it than that.