Final Fantasy XIV Is Now the Most Profitable Game in the Entire Series, Surpasses 24 Million Players

Crazy how well they turned around a disastrous launch. Always wanted to play, but monthly subs just aren't for me 🤷

Great..., so now we will get less singleplayer quality gaming from final fantasy and square enix..

Quality sells. 😁👍

Well deserved.

I wish they will release this as a singleplayer at some point. Will definitely buy it.

It is $15 a month and we still on the hook for $40 to get the expansions. But people complain about SE GaaS games 😉

Anyway, Was in "La familia" for years... The game can be tons of fun, but at this point lost track of them or even what expansions I am missing.

I rather spend the $15 on GamePass, so doubt I'll ever go back. But still a good game and worth it in general.

It’s just brilliant. I’m not a big multiplayer fan but the instanced dungeons work magnificently and the community are lovely and really help you through them. If you stick past the admittedly slow first 30-40 hours then you’ll get sucked in. I played 100 hours in just over a month.

It's the ultimate comeback. Yoshi P is our Lord and Saviour.

@Jtheripper Unlikely. They know how difficult it is to make it work. Avengers is the latest wake up call on that regard.
It's YoshiP, and they only got one of those.

There is a RIDICILOUS amount of single player content in this game @Jtheripper

Better than some of the mainstream releases!!

The fact that endwalker isn't even the end of the game but of just one arc is insane. I'm here for it though, this game is fantastic

@Jtheripper lmao did you miss the XVI trailer? It could turn out bad for all we know, but what little theyve shown already looks amazing

I see, glad for the good news then, thanks guys.

@Kalvort i thought it's an mmorpg, good to know. Seems you can play solo? Offline? But you need subscribe i guess each month.
@Judal27 i didn't even know of 16 no, will check it out for sure, glad to be wrong then.
It's a singleplayer game 16?

There is soooo much content with this game. I haven't played since LVL 55 was the cap, but I maxed out all the skills and jobs available at the time. There's just soooooo much. I can't even imagine trying to jump back in now.

Unlike other MMOs, FFXIV doesn’t drop beginner friendly content with each expansion 95% of the game can be played solo. For the other 5%, there’s matchmaking and, unlike other MMOs, the matchmaking is very very good. The story of each expansion is huge and continues the story of the previous expansion, so at this point FFXIV is basically XIV plus 4 sequels. Oh also the base game and first expansion are free, which is like 400 hours of gameplay, so there’s that.

Cannot praise this game enough. For everyone worried about it being an MMORPG, just know 90% of this game can comfortably be played solo. It's essentially a single player game, if you want it to be.

For my money, the best story in any FF game ever. That includes all the "legendary" FF entries like VI, VII, Tactics, whatever. Trumps them all in my opinion.

The content is ridiculous and very fanservice-y (in a good way). Golden Saucer, Triple Triad, chocobos, etc. If there is anything you ever liked in a FF game, it's in here somewhere.

Community is top-notch. Everyone is super helpful in general.

The first 30 hours is a tutorial. Remember that going in. The beginning quests are basic as anything but there is a method to it, to ease you in.

This is the only game in my life I would say, yes, it is literally an 11/10 game, but only IF you are ready to invest some serious time into it and can stomach the subscription fee. Two big IFs to be honest but worth it and so much more.

Fantastic game. I've spent thousands of hours in Eorzea and even though I'm an antisocial old git, I've made many friends throughout Europe from it.

@Jtheripper yea they announced it a while ago though. All that they've showed points to XVI being a single player game

This brings a smile to my face

This is the sole purpose of my PS5 these days: to play FFXIV. And don’t take that as me dissing the PS5, FFXIV has taken over 95% of my gaming time entirely.

@Broosh you can play the game for free up to level 60, and that’s not just “part of the game”, that’s the base game plus the first expansion story arcs in completion, and that expansion is still IMO one of the best Final Fantasy experiences ever.

@Tharsman I'll have to give that a go! I was discouraged because my PSN was evidently linked to an old Square account that doesn't have permission to play for free. Maybe PC then...

@Judal27
Yes i watched the trailer now,,looks less fantasy though a lil,kinda like a dragon age.

This is great news. I've always maintained for people willing to put in the hefty time investment (and sub investment too) it's an immensely rewarding game. I genuinely believe It's got some of the best storytelling in video games hands down. I let my sub lapse for a little over a year now but I'm thinking I'll probably jump back in once endwalker releases

@Tharsman If you need a sub surely it isn't free?

I got a free month in this but was ridiculously busy, just moved out with my mate, had a new job, was meeting a lot of new people who I only see rarely now. I put the game on once and both times ended up staying in the starting area for like 2 hours before turning it off as I either had to clean up or ended up just talking to people and then hanging out. If they had offered me that trial a year before or after I would have given it a real shot. However, this was the ps3 version, as well.

Oh and since I've experienced a demanding game like Genshin I very much doubt I'd catch up in this one. I feel I can just about catch up in Genshin by putting in a lot of time.

@Jayofmaya you don’t need a sub to play the free portion of the game, that includes the entirety of the Heavensward expansion (lvl 1-60 and all related quests and jobs.)

The only gotcha is if you enjoy it so much you decide to subscribe, you can’t ever downgrade to the free to play 1-60 game, even with a brand new character.

The demo used to be just like one month, but these days it’s a perpetual demo until you decide to subscribe.

@Tharsman So I could take as long as I want to 100% that first part? Then when everything is done I could move on to a sub and do the added parts?

@Tharsman And do you mean that that 1-60 content is no longer available or you just have to keep paying for the game from there on to even play that part?

@Jayofmaya like @Tharsman said, you can do all the content you want of the starting game and the first expansion pack, heavensward. And you can level up till 60, All free. I think you have some limitations with the max money you can have, you can not sends mails etc. But you can enjoy the game to your heart! And believe me, you are gonna enjoy it. Its a fantastic game.

If you like the game, and decide to pay to continue your adventure, you can not go back to free mode. But at that point, I think that's fair, and you still have access to all the content, just not free anymore.
Don't worry you have a lot of hours of free fantastic content until you have even start to think about to pay or not

@Jayofmaya there are few limitations, if the top of my head you can’t use the auction house (all gear you would ever need is earned from dungeons and quest rewards anyways.)

You also can’t use the zone wide chat channels.

If you have ever subscribed in the past, you can’t go back to the free tier, even if you never went past 60 content.

Once you hit 60, and finish all story content in free mode, you can continue replaying that content all you want, you just need to subscribe and buy the expansions to actually progress past 60, play the new jobs or use the auction house.

Honestly between launch game and Heavensward expansion there is a TON of content. Not only the main story, but a ton of raids (24 total 8 player raids I think by that point, and 24 player raids), by today standards these raids are rather “easy” but still have side stories associated with them, so more fun content to do. Each job has its own story quest line. I still have not done everything Launch + Heavensward has to offer, and could see someone playing just that for a very very long time, especially if you enjoy just chatting with people in zones (that will slow down how you eat through content.)

As for the feeling of “catching up”, I would not worry much about that. If you jump in just enjoy the ride. There is a level syncing system that means you can’t our level stuff, the advantage of being level 80 is not huge when doing level 30 or 60 content, and there should you ever subscribe, you can skip tons of the non-level based progression. You don’t have to grind for months to jump from 60 to 61, and they always boost XP gains of older content to accelerate the pace to catch up. Your biggest roadblock to “catch up” will usually be getting through the story, but that’s the most fun on the game!

If playing on PlayStation, there is a chance your Ps3 demo tied your PSN account and it might make that PSN account ineligible, but you can give it a shot and see if it lets you. IF it won’t let you, you still can always simply play on PC where you can easily create alternate accounts that are not bound to console profiles.

@Tharsman Thanks. That's a lot of information! I'll give it a go then and let you know whether I can get on with ps4 still. Raids are interesting, I've never managed to play an MMO long enough to be part of them.

@Nekomichu Great! If all that is free I might be able to convince my pc user friend to play with me, too.

@Tharsman @Nekomichu So, I just checked and the "Final Fantasy XIV Online - Starter Edition" was £20 (with only 30 days free) for my main account, so I figured it might be the account and switched to a US account I rarely use to buy US sale games with psn top ups and it's 20 dollars there (still with a month limitation). Is it perhaps only free on steam.

@Nekomichu @Tharsman Nevermind. I had to register to Squeenix with another email (used the one from the US psn account) and it worked. Tried to make me use a laptop at first but fumbled to a ps store page where I added it and then a new trial was visible on my main ps4 account.

@Jayofmaya It worked then? It's the free trial version, not the starter. Hope you enjoy the game

@Nekomichu Yes. Got the download, 43 or so gb. Says free trial at the end. Think my friend is downloading tomorrow so will start then.

@Nekomichu and thank you!

@Jayofmaya cool! Hope you enjoy the game.