How much revenue did FINAL FANTASY XIV Online make?

$26.3M–$70.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FINAL FANTASY XIV Online sell?

Q: How many copies did FINAL FANTASY XIV Online sell?

4.8M to 7.8M copies, based on its 85k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.8M–7.8M; $26.3M–$70.8M after Steam's cut $47.9M–$108.9M before the cut; from 85k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left FINAL FANTASY XIV Online out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including FINAL FANTASY XIV Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.5M–21.4M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like FINAL FANTASY XIV Online

The middle of these games

≈ 7.5M–21.4M copies

≈ $93.0M–$166.4M after Steam's cut

from ~161k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MMORPG (2 of 3) and Open World (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 43 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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SMITE® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.5M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayMOBA
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Elder Scrolls® Online 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $30.5M–$82.1M after Steam's cut $55.5M–$126.2M before the cut	$19.99	161k reviews Very Positive	RPGMMORPG