Final Fantasy XIV: Exceeds 5 million registered users worldwide

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Sentient_Nebula on 23 August 2015

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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deskpro2k3 on 23 August 2015

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.

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.