How many people play FFXIV? January 2024 player count

Final Fantasy 14 has been on the rise ever since its re-release in 2013 with its 2.0 update, A Realm Reborn. With the new expansion Dawntrail already announced and coming in 2024, is the game still popular?

Every announcement and expansion in the past has brought many new players into Final Fantasy 14, and Square Enix’s second take on the MMO genre is quickly growing. Many players are jumping into the game’s free trial to test out three out of five Main Scenario expansions and over 16 classes.

The game is still alive and well, with regular content updates, so here’s how many people are playing Final Fantasy XIV as of January 2024.

How many people play Final Fantasy 14?

According to Naoki Yoshida and Square Enix, it was announced during the Final Fantasy XIV Tokyo Fan Fest of 2024 that the game has surpassed the 30 million players mark.

This is three million more than the last official update from the Final Fantasy 14 team back in October 2023, where during the London Fan Fest, the player count was 27 million players.

According to the mmo-population.com website, the game is in Rank #5 out of 140 tracked MMOs in terms of player population. The tracker also states that the total player count in history is 49.34 million players, and almost 1 million play it daily.

What’s next for Final Fantasy XIV?

Dawntrail, the new expansion for Final Fantasy 14 and the first chapter in the game’s new saga is coming in 2024. Alongside the expansion release, the game is still receiving its regular content updates, with the 6.55 Part 2 update coming on January 16.

The second part of the “Growing Light” patch will tie all ends left by Endwalker and set the stage for the Warrior of Light’s adventures in the new world of Tural. Those eager to know Tural will have to wait until Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail releases sometime during the summer of 2024.

The game has an updated free trial since 2023 that includes all content up until the 2017 Stormblood expansion and 70 free levels. This means that you won’t need to pay for the full game or its monthly subscription until you finish all this free content or decide to start paying for extra benefits.

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