Popularity of multiplayer role-playing game Final fantasy xiv from company Square enix continues to grow across the board. According to the data Steam charts, this past weekend MMO has updated its record for the number of simultaneously playing Steam – the second time this month.
- April – 30,178 people
- May – 37,347 people
- June – 40,067 people
- July – 58,043 people (July 11), 47,538 people (July 4)
However, Steam represents only a small fraction of Final Fantasy XIV’s million-strong audience. The PC version has been distributed through Square Enix channels for many years, and there is also a console user base on Playstation 4 and Playstation 5…
In the fall, the game should receive its next major expansion, called Endwalker, and the other day the developers said that in terms of the dynamics of pre-orders, it bypasses the previous one – Shadowbringers – by 160-180%…
Experts attribute the rise in popularity of Final Fantasy XIV in recent months to positive word of mouth and the activity of popular streamers specializing in other top MMOs like World of Warcraft who decide to try Square Enix and, as a result, generate interest in their audience.
Anyway, yesterday on the official website of Square Enix the keys to the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV ran out… In addition, newbies complain that they cannot create a character, as the servers are overloaded. Due to the influx of audience, the company is currently restructuring and expanding the server system… Millions of dollars have already been allocated for this.
In April, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XIV had 22 million accounts.
Final Fantasy XIV Development Lead Naoki Yoshida in parallel acts as a producer Final Fantasy XVI for PlayStation 5…
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