Abstract
- Ultimate Myth 14 has noticed a relatively huge drop in avid gamers between the discharge of Dawntrail and Patch 7.1.
- Fortunate Bancho has claimed that over 1.4 million avid gamers have been energetic all over the discharge of Dawntrail, regardless that numbers recently take a seat at simply 1.03 million.
- On that present trajectory, Ultimate Myth 14 will most likely fall under 1 million energetic avid gamers, with little or no content material getting extra informal avid gamers to stay round.
Ultimate Myth 14 is in a gorgeous bizarre spot at the present time. Numerous individuals are nonetheless roughly disillusioned with the tale, even after Patch 7.1’s makes an attempt to check out and spice issues up a little, and numerous court cases at the moment are usually being leveled on the loss of issues to do.
New content material just like the Global of Darkness Chaotic Raid and Echoes of Vana’Diel Alliance Raid are beautiful cool, with a degree of issue that avid gamers to find refreshing, however there are not any long-term grinds which are truly attractive extra informal avid gamers to stay round.
Ultimate Myth 14 Is Seeing A Massive Participant Drop Following Dawntrail
In reality, there is so little to do at the moment that Ultimate Myth 14 is experiencing rather a big drop in energetic avid gamers. A Japanese blog site called Lucky Bancho (shared by Reddit user Impressive_Wafer_287), that tracks participant numbers for Ultimate Myth 14 throughout quite a lot of expansions and patches, has published that Dawntrail in reality misplaced an important selection of avid gamers between Patch 7.0 and Patch 7.1, while different expansions in reality grew in avid gamers.
Consistent with Fortunate Bancho, over 1.4 million avid gamers have been energetic upon the discharge of Dawntrail, whilst simply 1.1 million have been energetic upon the discharge of Patch 7.1. When compared, Shadowbringers and Endwalker had 943,000 and 1.3 million avid gamers upon each and every enlargement’s release, which then rose to at least one.2 million and 1.7 million upon the discharge of patches 5.1 and six.1 respectively.

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It is also claimed by way of Fortunate Bancho that avid gamers are nonetheless losing relatively briefly after Patch 7.1, with the energetic participant rely going from 1.15 million to about 1.03 million. On that present trajectory, Ultimate Myth 14 turns out poised to drop under 1 million energetic avid gamers for the primary time in a excellent lengthy whilst, which must be elevating alarm bells for Sq. Enix, considering Final Fantasy 14 is the game that is propping up the entire company.
After all, a drop-off in avid gamers is all the time anticipated after a big enlargement, however Dawntrail’s numbers are relatively being concerned. It does not assist that many of the content material launched after Dawntrail has been catered in opposition to high-end raiders, with little or no for extra informal avid gamers to spend time on. That are supposed to exchange as soon as the relic grind, box operation, and new deep dungeon are sooner or later launched, however because it stands at the moment, Ultimate Myth 14 is not tempting avid gamers sufficient to stay round.
