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How Big FFXIV will be?
nordamax
Member Posts: 92
Folks,
I am not a FF fan. However, the game looks very interesting. I am going to give it a try. Since wow still rule the big pie. What's you guys opinion about how far FFXIV will go?
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I plan on looking into it.. I have it on my "watch" list.. If the game is somewhat polished, balanced and fun, I'll play it.. If the end game is a repetitive grind, then I'll quit and wait for the next game.. Good Luck to FF14 and SWToR.. and a few others
Well if you were a betting man you could probably say that most games will flop and you would make money sooooo....heh. I hope it's big.
I wouldnt count on it being much bigger than FFXI was at its prime. Its basically XI with a face lift, and XI was, along with L2, the textbook examples of unholy grind.
all this talking about west ofcuz, asians and specially japanese will go batshit insane with it
It's hard to give you a proper answer because I have nothing to relate to except XI which you have not played I assume.
Alright, I'll try. This is speculation (informed speculation though) so take it with a grain of salt;
Initially, I assume there will be 5 bigger "regions". These regions are quite large, and it will take a long time to get from one side to another. There will be some dungeons (not instances) and maybe even "secret" areas in each of them. The regions will be one initial region for the 3 main cities, one region for the 4th city for higher level players, and a region to connect the 4 other regions.
The next update or the update after that, 3 more regions will be introduced.. They will possibly have some beastmen tribe towns and such to explore, so lot of content to do there. Also probably some harder GuildLeves. The storyline will continue there.
In the 2nd, maybe 3rd update depending on how often we get them the last 2 regions will be released, the ones with the ruined cities. There we will see the epic climax of the vanilla storyline and set up for the first expansion, also the level cap should start raising at this point so there'll be some higher level content to do.
After that the first expansion is probably about to be released and level cap will keep rising during the expansion. We will probably get to go to the Garlean empire at that point.
All this is based on how they handled XI.
Oh, also a wild hater appears!
I think it will be bigger than FFXI. Due to the massive influx of people new to the genre in the last 5 years add to the current FFXI players a small chunk of that and it should do exceptionally well.
I doubt it will hit WoW numbers ever, due to it's niche focus, but it will still be successful due to the pedigree alone. Guess we'll have to revisit this thread in a year or 2 and see what happened.
I think it will be a solid game with solid numbers. There is a good following for the FF games and Square makes good games. Personally its not something im interested in but I appreciate the quality in the franchise.
WOW isnt great because it has 12 million players. WOW has 12 million players because its great.
For me. I was expecting Aion to be big. But, somehow it doesn't went very well. From the official site of FFXIV. At least it looks really b-e-a-utiful. And seem the combat system is interesting as well. I hope it will be good in player interaction and in-game communication.
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I doubt it. The audience has grown a lot thanks to WoW but its also become much more brutal and unforgiving ... thanks to WoW.
If its true that the game isnt much more than an updated FFXI with prettier graphics, I doubt it'll be a hit here. Japan was never really big on MMO's either.
Who knows though, im hoping its good and all the stuff theyre still keeping quiet about turns out to be great but I get the feeling theyre keeping quiet because they know itll hurt sales.
FFXI numbers would be successful, i think at its prime it had 500k steady subs . If I had to bet I'd say that or maybe a bit more.
in Asian (mainly Japan) it will be bigger than jesuschrist tho...
700k. WoW dropped that number to 500k though.
Simply PS3 users will probably bring it to close to a million already, even if PC users don't care.
Remembering that FFXI in its prime was bigger than anything other than WoW and Lineage.
that goes without saying
I am really looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV because it looks to be a mmo that was made strictly for the fans of Final Fantasy XI. They dont care about getting record subs or trying to appeal to the mainstream. It looks like they just made a nice solid mmo and thats what I want.
PS:
I dont think Final Fantasy XI was never bigger than Lineage. Lineage had millions of subs and I think today still has 1M or more active and thats not even counting Lineage 2 which also had millions of subs.
it hit a mill subs at its prime
i think a mill subs at least it already has 130k pre orders just for na
No it did not, Hyan is correct.
I still don't see it hitting a mil, especially with no PS3 for a while, but anything around 500k is perfectly successful.
for the very little amount of coverage it gets in NA (compared to other AAA titles), i would guess 500k subs 3 months after release, which like others have said, is perfectly succesful
maybe 500k from Na subs
yea it did... square even annunced it unless that was characters made
I'm thinking about the size of FFXI. So big enough for me :P
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500-750k box sales at launch. Big drop off after the 30 day free period ends as people discover that FFIXV isn't a WOW-esque game and actually requires more than a small measure of thought to become profieicent at the game. Population will plateau out around the 3 month mark and, if SE have the game's core systems working as intended, population will slowly rise due to a slow influs of gamers looking for something different.
Haha how true...
Wait is this a land-mass, box sales or forum ego question? /Icanttellanymore
I am looking forward to a huge world to explore meet strange beings and kill them, a healthy server population and decent community over time and I hit 110 posts so... I'm feeling pretty good today.
Haven't seen anything to give an estimate of how big the world is. Hopefully it compares to open world type games like EQ2, WoW or FF11. Aion, AoC and WAR felt smallish or at least boxy.
My estimate would be 1 million in it's prime (first few months) and 500k steady just like FFXI. There is too much competition coming out soon for it to really break past that barrier. Most of the subscribers will be from JP.
Note: These are still fantastic numbers and I'd assume FFXIV will have great player retention like FFXI and maintain those numbers for years to come.
100k US/North America
150k Europe
750k Asia (bulk of it being Japan)
~1 Million in its prime and will hover in the 800-1 mil range for 3-4 years minimum.
Don't underestimate the rabid and devoted fan base SE/FF has. I am one of those people.