@@piedpiper1185 yeah. The best thing to me is seeing how they have very similar systems to WoW but that are executed in ways that are miles ahead. And also NO content is outdated after an expansion, there’s always people queueing for everything in the game 24/7.
I'm guessing Asmongold playing FFXIV recently also had a good impact on the playerbase About FFXIV, ask anything to a FFXIV player about the game and their answer will include: it will get better later in the game.
Tried playing it two days ago. Outlevelled the base content without getting halfway through the story and gave up. I just don't care to run back and forth delivering messages anymore.
@@attilapataki46 That’s true for a lot of things though. Yeah the original 2.0 was kind of bare-bones by comparison, but you have to understand it was basically turned around in two years. As the expansion to happen, the areas and gotten better, the voice acting has drastically improved, and the overall story arc is getting intense. That isn’t to say that a ARR is horrible, just in the scheme of things it’s the starting point. So a lot of things are going be get slow at first to kind of build up.
"The most successful wow expansion was classic, a release that removed almost 20 years of updates." I like this better, has more punch~ Josh Strife seems pretty based~
WoW finally got killed as well. People been waiting for a WoW killer, apparently FF14 has surpassed WoW in subs. (From the data that can be mined because Blizzard stopped releasing sub numbers)
The toxic sheep always follow mainstream products so they can flex buying the most expensive cosmetics. Too bad they didnt stay in their lane. Now this will get ruined with annoying weirdos.
@@ionseven probably the truth, band wagon kids always follow the biggest streamers and the better a game is the more streamers it gets naturally. So I won't be surprised when toxic dillholes continue to ruin good games. Its just a symptom of success sadly.
FF14 is has revitalized my love for MMOs. The content ramps up perfectly. It starts with you being able to be asleep at the keyboard, to having to read the boss' movements in order to be able to accurately dodge the upcoming mechanics. The lack of DBM or Weak Auras allows for a more intense experience.
@@jmroz311 Yea, the low level content is pretty easy and the MSQ (Main questline) is designed to be easy. For challenges there's side content you can do for mounts and currency. If it feels too easy, don't worry each job's rotation and abilities flesh out the more you level. Around Heavensward 50-60, is when every classes kit becomes a lot more interesting IMO. Keep in mind you can swap jobs at any time so if you don't like your job you can swap it up, but I suggest at least getting to lvl 60 before deciding if you like a job or not. If you tell me what kind of classes you enjoy playing I can suggest some though. In general, Paladin and Red Mage are amazing at solo content/learning new content so everyone leveling those is a good idea.
Give it time. When something goes popular it gets ruined. Happened to gaming itself now being riddled with insecure mainstream sheep fighting over who can buy the most expensive cosmetics. Hate to be a downer but pick any game that went pop.
Not only does this game have a story that is on par with the other final fantasy games (and can be played just like one) it also made with love and care. Yoshi P clearly cares about his team and they listen closely to the fans, just an all round good recipe. I don't know how others can still play WOW and support activision-blizzard, especially after seeing how those teams are treated.
@@christianhagel6835 Yeh, I've heard, isn't Yoshi on record parsing in like the top 5% of one of the savage raids on a black mage no less, certainly impressive.
I just started playing FFXIV last month, and just beat the post ARR quest line. Going to start Heavensward later this week. I am loving the absolute crap out of this game and this community. Raiding is Epic, trials are intense. I usually never get into MMOs but this is so so worth playing if you can. I’m glad I joined coincidentally at the same time as a bunch of other new sprouts!
it does not make sense. Any lifeservice provider with multiple servers has to have flexibility with those and being able to expand/shrink their server pool at a relatively fast pace. Less so for mmos but they still are able to do that & they know way more in advance that they will need more servers than other services.
If you would've watched the video they clearly state the same reason you do. The thumbnail is clickbait. They actually don't have a problem with it selling out digitally.
This game has come so far from where it started, the greatest come back in video game history. this is what happens when you actually care about the game, when you actually listen to your fans/community and when you actually personally play the game your creating!!
I left wow at the end of BC when they destroyed gladiator gear and pvp was no longer a world thing. Went to final fantasy 14 and never looked back. The game is actually a masterpiece.
MMOs isn't a genre of previous time, the holy grail of MMOs is just hard to attain, it's a big investment and companies rather not take that risk, they prefer to make a simple arena shooter or battle royale which are infinitely easier to develop.
I seriously hope that a lot of developers don’t just jump on the bandwagon and start making MMO’s. I remember about 15 years or so ago maybe a little bit longer it was so many mmos it was nuts. Oversaturation is a bad thing, doesn’t matter what it is. We see it with the battle royale genre. Not that MMOs are bad. They are fun and they have a certain appeal. But the problem is when everybody jumps on the bandwagon and that’s all anybody makes, the other market suffers as a result. Like with about a royale craze. It seems like everybody was doing online only competitive sales battle royale style games, you were single player sorry driven experiences were kind of forgotten for a while.
@@fisherinfocus Yeah. It was getting ridiculous. I mean don’t get me wrong I love my online competitive shooters like overwatch and everything else like the next guy but it seemed like for a while there that’s all that was coming out from anybody. Sometimes I just wanna sit on the couch and chill as Nathan Drake or Kratos etc.
Big companies won't bother with mmos anymore. Amazon went into mmo scene because they don't understand games at all. Why spend hundreds of millions and years upon years developing mmos when you can make same money with mobile/gacha like games e.g. Fifa ultimate team or genshin impact. Amazon will make a genshin like game when their mmo fails eventually.
@@blakbear6528 I have been playing Final Fantasy for about five years now they will take? So I definitely wouldn’t say nobody. And now that 14 has become wildly popular just like everything else do you know how people jump on the bandwagon. I guess we’ll have to see what
Funny enough they announced months ago that for Endwalker (the next expansion in November) they are planning a multi-million dollar upgrade to the servers and adding a oceanic data center. They anticipated the increase but not this soon I guess.
@@koladearasanmi2005 no, despite all the rumors, it is NOT the last expansion, this will be the final parts of the hydaelyn and zodiark arc. After that, its a brand new story, this arc has been going on since the beginning. So basically, the major over arching story is ending, but more will come.
Important note about why the uptick of WoW refugees at this specific moment: Shadowlands came out in November, and patch 9.1 only JUST came out a couple weeks ago. WoW players have gone for the longest period of time between a launch patch and the first major content patch in WoW history. Pretty much everything was riding on patch 9.1 being the absolute best content WoW has ever seen, and it turns out that this patch actually took everything good about Shadowlands and completely threw it in the trash, so that's why everyone is jumping ship now. Shadowlands has been well-received, but the development is far too slow, and after waiting all this time, players got garbage content, so that was kind of the last hope which has now turned into the last straw.
I'm glad they are sold out. In just the past few months I've started experiencing wait times even on off-peak times! I'm on one of less popular servers and it's always full. I can't imagine the wait times on the places popular streamers stream!
Maybe you guys can ask that brother of yours to... I dunno maybe do A REVIEW OF THE GAME! We all know he has played it already and is caught up to current content.
With the new expansion coming out. There are new data centers/servers for the Australian/New Zealand players. I came from ESO and been enjoying my experience
ARR isn't nearly as bad as people say, it's just pretty generic for a JRPG, HW is a much better story, ShB even more so, but ARR is still good. Personally, I liked SB too I just think it has some rough bits here and there but it's also pretty good regardless, although the best parts are in the post-SB patches.
The reason people say "ARR bad" is because they remember a different ARR. They changed the experience quite drastically with enormous XP gains and changing up and cutting out quests. The time needed to get to level 50 now is a fraction of what it used to be back when the game released. I actually quit the game for a year because levelling was such a tedious and time-consuming task. Now, the MSQ gives you so much XP that you basically never need to do dungeons to catch up. The story is so much more well paced without having to grind. Even if they didn't change the story itself, it just flows so much better.
@@MelvaCross yeah, leveling is pretty quick in the game, mostly to encourage players to play different Jobs as well as get new players caught up. When a new expansion drops, you can get to max level pretty quickly as you follow the MSQ.
@@MelvaCross thing is, a lot of the side quests in ARR actually are great world building and flavor, and the main story was paced with those in mind. Many people still complain about the pacing of the story quests in ARR because now instead of spending time in the places you visit and being a general hero, you are whisked from one location to the next and barely connect with the realm you're there to protect. I did ARR when that was all that was in the game, and i genuinely enjoyed the leveling process despite a few intensely grindy parts. It felt like an immersive, proper RPG experience. I do think the newly trimmed MSQ giving enough exp is a general improvement, but i also think people miss a lot of the well crafted atmosphere nowadays. Between that and levels 1-50 previously giving you your entire skillset, ARR is fundamentally diminished in multiple ways as a necessary sacrifice to enable story progression.
Nice stuff, guys. In the 14 hour interview it was announced that SE would be investing multi-millions in upgrading infrastructure. I think it is safe to assume that the motivator was to accommodate the unexpected sell out and population increase. At that point in time (during the interview) they had already sold 3 times more Endwalker versions than Shadowbringers in the same time frame. They expect to be able to accomplish the server upgrades before the November release date.
A third possibility, SquareEnix has used up the licence numbers for the game. Given the millions of players throughout it's history, it's safe to say there's been tens of millions of account opened for this game, each needing an unique licence plus extra for the expansions. I'm not sure of the number of digits in the FFXIV licence code, but there can't be that many combinations that also meet whatever security code SquareEnix has inbedded in the licence key.
You absolutely should get in to it! I have been a player since A Realm Reborn released, was very concurrent I have finished all the main story expansions - I'm currently taking a break but will be returning for Endwalker!
@@bananasean5145 coz the other brother Ralph has a separate channel called skillup and he left a few months ago to focus on his own thing that’s why people unsub these days
I haven't played Final Fantasy 14 in nearly 3 years crazy how it justs blown up out of no where feels like I'm missing out but don't have time or money for it anymore
This is the best thing to happen for that game. Hopefully more people can jump in soon, because it's got people like me even considering trying it. Not a huge FF fan, but I appreciate good games.
I'm guessing they 'sold out' for 2 reasons. 1 as said, to maintain servers and keep the player experience as positive as possible. 2nd, though, I think is they've done a cost benefit analysis and they see that it's possible to have too many players and have the game burn out. Having a max of players and being able to predict income as well as creating a degree of scarcity with which can help their long game by keeping demand higher than supply perpetually.
Is it just me or does no one want to point out how many Twitch streamers are now playing FFXIV? I don't mean those who have been regularly playing, but all the streamers who are new to the game. And some of them have very high numbers of followers who are going to jump into the game as well just because their favorite streamers are now playing.
Welcome to FFXIV guys! Remember to pet every lalafell you see! Enjoy yourself at the Golden Saucer and help all the little sprouts out there and be patience with them, you were once a sprouts too!
I have player FFXIV at the original release, at the ARR release, and a few times as expansion have come out. If you are new, make characters on a server designated for new players if available (during non-peak times if character creation is locked). While playing for the first time follow the MSQ and any blue unlock quests. If you start trying to do everything and every side quest it will feel like a grind, many players will burn out quickly.
Just saying, maybe they are just claiming the keys sold out to drive up more interest while making those on the fence want it more because they can't have it. You know. Like Nintendo.
Been playing it since the PS4 beta. I take breaks for a month every now and then but the game is epic. Always happy to return when there's new content. The devs are awesome too so it's great to see it making headlines. They deserve it
Square Enix is going to expand the servers again next year seems like. I hope they don't shuffle the existing ones again but eh, better that than a crash.
So basically they have a cap on it because their Servers can’t keep up with that many Players and it will be bad experience for Gamers but doesn’t it mean more money in their Pockets if they open another Server and sell Digital Games again plus don’t People already pay Subscription monthly
I remember the queues when trying to log into WoW back in the day. Blizzard found a way to drain the pockets of everyone willing to pay. Just needed to wait in line.
It is better than adding new servers to satisfy "unlimited" keys and then have to combine unpopulated servers later. It is not a new born MMO after all.
Come play on the non-official English servers Tonberry and Kujata for better ping for AUS and NZ until the official Oceanic servers launch on the first patch of the expansion (Patch 6.1).
FFXIV is an example that got their core game done right (2.0 at least) but lacked enough quality of life features until recent years. I’m shocked to find out how many features that are new in the UI that would have been deal breakers for me had I started playing in 2013. As a result of all these recent changes, the MMO has aged gracefully, unlike WoW and how boring it is to level a character.
The simplest reason would be that keys are simply answers to math problems. While you can have equations that have a huge number of possible solutions, the total solution set is still a finite number. This would suggest that the game far exceeded the expected number of sales or that Laymen's "bad actor" uncovered the algorithm and Sony had to disable some (or all) remaining keys that solve the equation. The game will likely need to be patched with a new keygen system before sales return.
SE should give Yoshi & his team more resources and let his team grow, we could really do with more (raid) content (but keep the "quality over quantity" mentality), ... besides an easy fix to growing numbers (too many keys,)is "add more servers or datacenters", in wich SE should already be investing in for Endwalker
Good thing I started at the beginning of last week. Currently playing FFXIV right now while listening to this. I too am a WoW refugee but was a more casual player grinding a few months at a time since Burning Crusade. FFXIV has just been much more engaging then WoW with its content and it's clear that who ever is in charge of WoW right now, they don't know what they're doing. You just can't have a content drought for the first six months of a new expansion, especially when they've been pushing customers to take out six month subscriptions. As for server population Ragnarok (The EU legacy server) looks to be at capacity because I always need to queue to log in (which is around 20-50 people at the moment).
Been switching between WoW and Ff14 and they seem to have their weight not distributed evenly. Ff14 seems to have the story/community bit very refined and wow the smoothness in mechanics and immersiveness of the world.
I consider myself an ignorant plebe when it comes to mmos' logistics & upkeep but I'd think if Square Enix was confident the population increase wasn't a temporary surge & a new standard level of players then just add a new server for the more subscribers. Of course I've never played FF14 so I don't even know if FF14 has different servers.
Sadly I don't think 14 NA servers are not going to see any relief in the short-term. As the devs are waist-deep in Oceania data center launch. Even then it's going to be a hot minute because those aren't even scheduled to be at launch of EndWalker.
During the Live Letter this past weekend they've said they have server expansions planned to be coming alongside the Endwalker launch. Maybe not more new servers, but at least more capacity for the current ones.
Maybe you start watching Asmongold then you get an idea why the players are storming FF14. At least a big bunch of, including myself^^ I startet to play again last week.
Kudos to Square Enix that they made the decision to rework to the game instead of doing the thing that 95 percent of all MMO developers do in that situation: killing it off (yes I am looking at you, NCSoft)
Or tries to keep the game on while 'patching' hoping that it will be fix when you know the core of the game is terrible and can't be fixed (Eg. Anthem)
your gonna try ffxiv? hold thru, early on it can feel stretched & tedious story, quest & gameplay-wise (at lv 50(×) main quests, it starts to pick up, lv 80 is NUTS), .. focus on main & class quests (keep side quests for later and for alt classes, when u have a mount and can fly) .. and recommended trying out Pugilist/ Monk ("Hokuto no Ken"), Rogue/ Ninja ("Naruto") Lancer/ Dragoon (best glamour in the game?).. or maybe Arcanist/ Summoner (the only "double class", u automatically level up dps Summoner and a healer Schooler class parallel).., those classes are fun and engaging early on (and definitely Samurai too, when reaching lv 50)
