WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE splat

Geez, but everyone just. What a struggle. This genre is just Struggling

Meanwhile for BDO, players are calling for new leadership.

Not in a nasty way

But in a "you've clearly run out of ideas, let someone else have a go"

I mean, 10 years is a long run!

Nothing to sneeze at but

for ffxiv at least, we had a surge of membership as we always do at the start of a new expac and then everyone abandons the game

this is normal for us lol

Yeah, I recall from the time I tried it out

What a rollercoaster though

I understand why they do a sub model

Idk what's up with LA

Also, I am uncertain, but I believe these numbers are specific to NA

I am not sure if they include other regions

So it doesn't reflect EU numbers, or any other region since some games don't have servers in other regions that other games do

Like BDO has Asia (Southeast Asia, specifically). But I don't think FF14 does

ffxiv has EU servers, a Japan server, and one in Australia

but they're all like... i can make a character in any of them right now if i wanted to

and i can actually port my NA character over to the OCE servers for a visit and then bring him back, so it's a bit different

Yeah, that's completely different

theme park actually refers to the more linear nature of them

the MMO is a model for delivering content to you that they want you to do rather than a more open-ended sandbox model

and thus, once this content is consumed, the players leave the "theme park" until there's more rides

Yeah, BDO is in the same boat. I'm a launcher player, not a Steam player.

So ignoring the exact numbers, it's more just a pattern of fluctuation

but lol those theme park types look like a wild ride