Popularity and the number of players hit a new high! “FFXIV” was once stopped for sale | Game | New head shell Newtalk

The multiplayer online role-playing game “Final Fantasy XIV” produced by the well-known Japanese game company Square Enix is ​​suspected to have stopped selling the digital version in its online store because of the large number of online players.

Many players have discovered during the weekend that the purchase button of the digital version of “Final Fantasy XIV” in the Square Enix online store has been replaced with a button for waiting. Like other MMORPGs, there are many servers for players to choose from in “Final Fantasy XIV”, but the most popular servers are often crowded. Although crowded is not the same as full, but in this situation, players will not be able to create new corners on the server.

Many servers in “Final Fantasy XIV” are still in a state of unbreakable corners. Figure: Reversed from Square Enix

Although the exact reason for the official emergency removal of the game is still unknown, many foreign media believe that the removal of the game is to prevent new players who have just started the game from falling into the dilemma of being unable to create a corner when they log in to the server for the first time. Currently “Final Fantasy XIV” in the Square Enix store has been relisted, but after observing the server data center on the official website, it can still be found that most of the servers are still crowded and cannot create new corners.

In the absence of new content, Final Fantasy XIV hit a record high in the number of players at the beginning of this month. The number of simultaneous online players on the Steam platform once reached 47,542, surpassing the 41,200 record set by the game in 2020. Square Enix is ​​expected to launch a new version of “Final Fantasy XIV” “Endwalker” on November 23 this year. In addition to adding new stories, the update also includes two new classes.