FF14 drought.
Balan Wonderworld was a colossal failure
No other games released.
DLC for a game no one plays.
Yea makes sense.
Eh, we will see a small spike come August â due to the FF15 collab event and then in November.
This was before the influx of people to FFXIV.
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The ADR trades in the U.S. Down 1.8% right now.
For comparison purposes, ATVI down 2.0% right now.
Remember â free trial. Meaning you dont have to pay. If you have a massive influx of people you have to adjust for and they arent actively paying for said content â it means you are losing money.
Why are we still posting stuff about Q2 when the big controversies have happened in Q3. Q2 ended on 6/30, since then ff had to stop selling digital copies due to server load. I mean the copium on these forums is insane. Also isnât everything from square flopping besides cinematic viewer 14? While the major thing driving revenues at blizzard has to be WoW. Overwatch, D3, and SC2 are basically dead games, and seems to be the direction wow is heading.
Activisionâs earning call gushing about classic numbers, means nothing but trouble on retail.
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Itâs a little disingenuous to put FF14 in the title, considering all reports regarding quarterly earnings related to that specific title under the Square Enix umbrella has reportedly seen growth.
Again, not specific to FF14.
The purpose of this topicis to make it appear that FF14 is failing, when it clearly isnât.
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I guess people were willing to cheerlead for FF but not actually buy the game and pay a sub for it.
Guys, it canât end this way. FF was meant to be the one. The forums predicted WoW would die by the end of summer, and FF would take over as King of the MMO.
Which was before the latest influx. That didnât happen until July. The numbers you posted are for June. And ended in June. Nothing about July.
Again, These reports mean nothing to players.
People keep trying to use quarterly reports to mean something.
MAUs being down does not mean WoW is gonna be shut down. Theyâd probably put it in maintenance mode. Profit doesnât mean theyâll start putting more money into the game.
FFXIVâs report before this latest thing has nothing to do with post-July stuff.
And even then all that is just for business people. Unless you are a suit with your hand out waiting for your cut, it means nothing.
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Yes, I brought that up.
Wait til next quarter.
âDigital Entertainment, Amusement, Publication and Merchandising business segments.â
This is not a Final Fantasy 14 thing, this is their entire company. Like trying to get WoW data of Activision-Blizzardâs total performance.
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Rent free.
Not sure why youâre posting this, quite sad and pathetic really.
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The company that is producing is failing financially which means thereâs going to be cutbacks and lay offs if they continue to have bad quarters. Itâs a repeat of what happened to NCSoft and GW2.
Which likely includes Avengers, which failed horribly.
Steam charts still show it up 10k average users since the end of June and having a steady increase since April.
Because yes, it makes logical business sense to cut back on an actual successful product, instead of the ones languishing. 
Both GW2 and FF14 have expansions coming out in the next couple of months, it doesnât appear like theyâre going anywhere.
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Youâre right but itâs likely cinematic viewer 14 is not one of those failing franchises. They will cut the bad products and move on with the successful ones. Just like wows carcass will be put on maintenance mode, and carried by profitable games like call of duty.
WoW will eventually die one day or another. Could be next year or ten years for now.
One thing is clear. Looking at their segment breakout of total rev and a stupid wild a** guess of the portion for FFXIV, WoWâs dev budget probably dwarfs FFXIVâs budget by more than 2x. Amazing that they can put out a decent mmo that can take share with a comparatively smaller budget.