April 5, 2021 FFXIV has reached more than 22 million players.
It looks like patch 5.5, Square Enix reveals the Final Fantasy XIV player count has now hit 22 million ed s.
FFXIV reached 20 million players in July 2020, just ahead of generous expansion of the MMORPG still has plenty of room to get even bigger.
Final Fantasy XIV has undergone some impressive growth in the last few years. The Shadowbringers expansion helped the game make the jump from 16 million players to 18 million as of December 2019. For a bit more context, the total ed count was reported as ten million in August 2017, so that's another twelve million in the (almost) four years since.
The plenty more in store for the game. Here's hoping it lives up to the lofty standards FFXIV has now set for itself.