Final Fantasy XIV: The most profitable offshoot of the entire series - player number

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Games producer Naoki Yoshida revealed at a recent event that the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has meanwhile show more than 24 million players. Half a year ago, there were 22 million players.

A heavy start

The title put a sensational fault in 2010 in 2010. After Square Enix had to deal with heavy criticism, they announced a relaunch. In August 2013, the online roleplay eventually appeared for PS3 and PC. Implementation for PS4 took place in April 2014.

They all know how hard it was for us with the original Final Fantasy 14. Since then, we have succeeded in transforming the title into a title that makes a great contribution to the profit of our company, says Yoshida.

According to Yoshida, a player number of four million was achieved in 2015. The ten-million mark was broken in 2017. Accordingly, the number of users have been more than doubled since then. In addition, the many years of producer assures that developers continue to invest money and diligence to provide a pleasing gaming experience.

With EndWalker the next extension package will be published in the coming month. The PlayStation Store sells the already fourth enlargement at a price of 44.99 euros. This further curbles the number of players. In fact, Square Enix can show 160 to 180 percent more pre-orders than Shadow Bringers (the previous extension).

In addition, Yoshida was commented on the Playstation Blog to the community that is very important to you: We look at the XIV team not only as a player. They are our friends and part of our family, we play this game together.

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