Sentient_Nebula said:
patronmacabre said:
The big question now is when will it finally overtake WoW (which has seen a rapid drop and now stands at about 7 million users.)
Personally, I am glad to see it doing well. I never found WoW particularly fun, but FFXIV had a certain charm to it that made me enjoy it much more than most MMOs. |
I doubt FFXIV will ever overtake WoW any time soon, since that "5 million registered users" figure is somewhat misleading. Even those who only made an account to try the 14-day trial are counted towards that total. I'm sure the actual number of current subscribers is around or under 1 million.
If we counted all registered accounts for WoW, I'm sure that game has well over 20 or even 30 million registered accounts.
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In China.
WoW is "free". They don't have to buy the main game or the expansions.
They have to buy the time card.
It costs 5 US dollars for 66 hours.
source: www.warcraftchina.com / https://www.offgamers.com/pc-games/massively-multiplayer/wow-cn
Even the time card has only 1 cent in it, it counts as a subscriber.
This is why China has 8+ million subscribers easily.
