Almost a year after the release of the expansion “Stormblood,” the number of registered players of Final Fantasy XIV rises to 14 million.
What happened 5 years ago? With the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV in 2013, the development team achieved remarkable work. Never before has a company successfully revived a failed MMORPG. This event is now celebrated every year with an in-game event and a 14-hour stream from the developers.
14 million is not equal to 14 million: The director and producer Naoki Yoshida has more good news for the MMORPG’s birthday celebration.
Final Fantasy XIV has surpassed the threshold of 14 million registered players. That is four million more than last year at the release of the expansion Stormblood.
However, it should be noted that these 14 million are not equivalent to the number of active players. The 14 million are merely “all players who have ever registered an account for Final Fantasy XIV.”
It is undoubtedly an impressive number, but it is not the number of active players.Number of active players not known: The exact number of active players who maintain a subscription is not known and can only be approximately determined through rough estimates and unofficial sources.
These unofficial numbers are calculated by the number of players who have, for example, completed certain story sections of Final Fantasy XIV. This can be seen by the companions and mounts displayed in the character profiles on the official FFXIV site Lodestone.
These estimated numbers are therefore only slightly reliable.
The community is currently hotly debating whether a new trademark from Square Enix could hint at the name of the next expansion of Final Fantasy XIV:
Is this the name of the next expansion of Final Fantasy XIV?
