Final Fantasy XIV is ridiculously popular now. Somehow, all the servers are full and SquareEnix temporarily halted digital sales of the game. What is going on?!!?
00:00 – Intro
00:42 – HOW?!
01:28 – Evidence of the hype
02:09 – It boggles the mind!
04:10 – The Asmongold effect
05:46 – This is temporary, BUT…
07:25 – Conclusion
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Tbh if ffxiv can hold on to even 10% of the new audience it would be huge for both the game and the community as a whole more people means more money being put back into the game
Been really liking your coverage of everything. I’m a WoW player who has been watching Asmon and Bellular’s coverage (which led me here) and I am curious of the game. What sucks is that I am a PvPer and I’m worried that it won’t satisfy me enough in the same way 🙁 everything else looks great though! I’m confident that it’s better than the current WoW overall just from observation, but if they really want to convert the rest of us they need to improve the PvP experience. I really hope they do. I’d love to make the switch 🙂 and I’ve played WoW for 15 years!
they don't want players to buy the game and not be able to login and play.
a problem that happened during realm reborn which yoshi said they never want to repeat.
also square enix u owe asmondgold like 1 mil by now lol
This is how you know blizzard tanked in subs 😆
Well that and their newest push for a 6 month sub with a mount incentive…I'm waiting for Ion to give his half-assed public apology, although I'm not gonna hold my breath for it.
It's very rewarding as a player to watch.
@Bwana –dude, can I just tell you how much I LOVE your videos lately! I'm so happy that you are posting more and more YT vids. Loving it dude!
Its a bunch of wow players leaving
My nephew downloaded the free trial Saturday night and we had to wait over 3 hours to get in on Zalera! I never thought I’d see the day we weren’t the low pop server any more.
i wont be surprised if i have to wait a while until i can log in XD. part of me is like yay my fave mmo is being bought more,other part of me i wont ever be able to log in!
Really… is it so shocking that a bunch of upset content creators have colluded into a narrative down this rabbit hole? That this has been agenda-driven to the extreme – it has nothing to do with FFXIV, sadly.
I am still on trial, just dinged level 47, and I couldn't even log in so that tells me sales of the game must be great and this isn't trial characters clogging up the servers. When servers are this full then free trial accounts can't get into queue. I totally understand that and agree that paying players should come first, but I hate that they totally closed out everything after I get the message saying queues were to big for trial accounts to enter queue. I had to reopen the launcher and everything to try again. I wish they could put me in queue, but allow paying people to jump my spot as they log in. I'd rather be in queue for an hour or more than have to reopen the launcher every time, put in my password, wait for the game to open, click start, choose my character to play, wait a bit for them to tell me I can't enter, and then have them close out my game and launcher to start over again. Also they should consider getting more server space if this is the game's trajectory
The first domino fell for wow.
well its because the LITERAL GOD is playing ff 14 so yeah thanks asmongold lol
I'm wondering if they will extend the free trial to 70 when Endwalker comes out or they will keep it at 60. or maybe they extend it by 1 expansion every other expansion, so the next one after endwalker will bump it to 70.
my big hope is that when Final Fantasy XIV becomes the biggest game on twitch, which it is now and everyone will be playing it. that Square Enix will invest more money into mking the expansion after Endwalker even better by paying their voice actors in full to do a full voice over of EVERY cutscene (SWTOR style). Then and only then will the game be perfect. it will require money, yes. SWTOR cost 200 million $ to make, so it's not cheap. But I would love for them to make every cutscene fully voiced.
By October, we will see these ex wow gamers on shadowbringer. And also in Bozja southern front. That place will be packed with people trying to finish relic before endwalker.
i am pleased with the influx of new players but their are some concerns i have mostly with just the game and less so the people joining.
its not big secret or hidden fact that ffxiv is dated now and its engine, servers, and crap coding cant really handle a whole lot of stress and so we end up with these impossible circumstances like these where servers are flooded til it becomes full resulting in lots of lag, increased load times, and big ques just to get into servers, and multiple instance spaces to filter people in an out of areas.
its my hopes that SE takes this as a precedence and move swiftly to accommodate all these new people by upgrading servers/adding in some more new ones, or planning for future reference to tweek their engine ever so slightly to be able to deal with the stress put on it.
the last thing we need is to have another 1.0……. situation where the game itself is actively working against the players and the developers just try to place bandaid fixes that dont really solve the problem long term.. an just hope for the best an place those annoying post it messages once more telling you to stop playing often ….. i pray and hope Yoshida has a plan but we will see.
Its fun tho.
Im a 12 year WoW refugee – And yes i recent swapped over.
A streamer friend of mine did a charity stream with a top goal number that if met they would stream ffxiv…. They met that goal in 3 hours.
Now no one will be able to buy a house plot 😀
I think the servers have run out of capacity. It is possible that they will start developing their servers to accommodate more mass.
Several big wow streamers started to play FFXIV. That's what going on.
Make it rain is coming and my fav moonfire fair🥰
My computers been down, from a thunderstorm but I was having a blast helping all the new people. Makes me feel good to see new people genuinely sticking with the game and being able to help them along their way. Heres hoping it gets back to working tommorow or tuesday so I can keep on keeping on.
I've said it once I'll say it again. WoW has been over valued and ff14 has been undervalued for ssooooo long. This is merely a market correction.
Wow ur camera is amazing