Incredibly, the game even sold out of digital copies. Since 2013, FF14 has steadily increased its number of players, reaching 22 million registered players in August. The response was so bad that developer Square Enix scrapped the game and rebooted it as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn in 2013. These are the kind of battles gamers hunger for.įF14 initially came out in 2010 but received harsh criticism over its lacklustre controls and presentation. "I think that the reality is people have always been wanting to play an MMO, it's just that, a lot of the MMOs recently have been bad, and people haven't really wanted to play them."Īmongold's waning interest in WoW led him to jump onto another MMORPG: Final Fantasy XIV. "The downfall of MMOs in the past 10 years has been completely self-inflicted by the developers," Asmongold said. He has a Twitch following of over 2.3 million. One person who's watched the decline of WoW and MMOs in real-time is Asmongold, a longtime World of Warcraft streamer. Subscribers to Classic slowly began to dwindle, even after the recent addition of the game's first expansion, The Burning Crusade. Millions of players returned to experience "vanilla WoW" in all its glory. The release of World of Warcraft Classic in August 2019 helped halt the subscriber bleed. In the meantime, WoW's subscriber base also began to dwindle. Competitors like Everquest 2, Lords of the Rings Online and Star Wars: The Old Republic either folded completely or went free-to-play to cope with a reduced player base. WoW reigned supreme for the rest of the 2010s with other MMORPGs laid by the wayside. Blizzard's MMORPG sucked the oxygen out of the room, reaching a height of 12 million subscribers in 2010 and essentially eliminated all competition. The '00s were the heyday for MMORPGs but the release of World of Warcraft in 2004 marked the beginning of the end of that golden age. The big dog of the MMO genre: World of Warcraft. Why? This return to prominence could be attributed to - strangely enough - the game that caused the genre to become stagnant in the first place. But the rapidly growing Final Fantasy XIV, alongside its upcoming expansion Endwalker is also playing its part. With a ridiculous 1 million people already having played as part of extended beta testing, New World is part of that change.
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