As the developer studio Square Enix announces in a press release, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn currently has more than 2.5 million registered accounts worldwide.
A significant contribution to the success is the fact that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn can be played on both PC and PlayStation. Another step towards 3 million was taken again yesterday: All PlayStation Plus members now have a free PS4 trial version available for download in the PSN Store. This trial version allows players to test the game for 14 days from creation and play a character up to level 20. On PC, this has been possible for several months now (here is the PC trial version of FFXIV).
In April of this year, the number of registered players was 2 million – an impressive figure for a formerly failed pay-to-play MMORPG that managed to impress critics and players with its remake. An increase of 500,000 accounts will likely be noted by Square Enix as a milestone. However, comparing the 2.5 million registered accounts to, for example, over 10 million active World of Warcraft subscriptions, it remains just a relatively small milestone.
Moreover, one should consider that there is usually a significant difference between active subscriptions and registered accounts. How many of the 2.5 million registered accounts are actually playing the game and thus paying about €12.99 every month to Square Enix remains unclear. Even if the active player numbers would be more interesting, a quick visit to the servers is enough to see that there is a lot going on in Eorzea. Overall, Final Fantasy 14 proudly looks back on a successful year, as was recently shown in an elaborate trailer.
In the future, players can look forward to the first expansion for Final Fantasy XIV: “Heavensward” is set to be released in Spring 2015. Here is the teaser for it:
