FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
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How do players who really played FINAL FANTASY XIV Online rate it? TrueGG Rating 88.2%

Release date: Feb 18, 2014 Data as of 2026-10-19 View on Steam ↗

Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Early impressions are weaker, so the first few hours tend to decide whether it clicks.

Good for

  • Players willing to push through a slow start
  • Players looking for hundreds of hours

Think twice if you are

  • Players who judge a game in the first hours (early ratings are lower)
  • Players relying on Japanese (Japanese reviews rate it lower)

A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How

TrueGG RatingMethodology ↗
88.2%
▲ +1.6 pt
vs Steam overall

Positive among players with 100+ hours (last 180 days) · 1,489 reviews

TrueGG, all time
92.3%
Steam overall
86.6%
Japanese, all time
81.6%

Early wall

Reviews written under 2 hours: 3.1% of all reviews. Their positive share is 27.3%.

This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).

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Does the rating change the longer people play?

Used for TrueGG Rating (100h+)JapaneseRight: reviews
Positive share by playtimeRanges from 100 hours up are highlighted. Exact values are in the table below.0%25%50%75%100%0–1 h20%461–2 h39%232–5 h60%1005–10 h66%12810–20 h71%17720–50 h82%25750–100 h87%221100–200 h81%242200+ h90%1,247Positive share by playtime0–1 h4620%1–2 h2339%2–5 h10060%5–10 h12866%10–20 h17771%20–50 h25782%50–100 h22187%100–200 h24281%200+ h1,24790%

Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.

Show chart values as a table
PlaytimePositiveJapaneseReviews
0–1 h19.6%50.0%46
1–2 h39.1%—23
2–5 h60.0%100.0%100
5–10 h66.4%33.3%128
10–20 h71.2%66.7%177
20–50 h81.7%100.0%257
50–100 h87.3%—221
100–200 h80.6%100.0%242
200+ h89.7%85.7%1,247

How long people play: half of reviewers had played 100+ hours. 84% had 20+ hours and 63% had 100+ hours (all time).

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Summary

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online has a TrueGG Rating of 88.2%: the positive share among 1,489 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 100+ hours, close to Steam's overall 86.6%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 92.3%).

Reviews written under 2 hours make up 3% of the total, and only 27% of them are positive. Some players bounce off early, but those who get past the opening rate it higher. Steam accepts refund requests within 2 hours of play and 14 days of purchase.

Beyond the first hours, approval is fairly even across playtime.

Negative reviews most often mention boredom. Positive reviews praise how fun it feels.

Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 81.6%, 6.6 points below all languages.

Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (85.9% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.

All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.

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Why it is rated this way

What drives the rating

Complaints center on the game's design (Boring / repetitive). These rarely change with updates, so the rating likely reflects the game itself. Judge by whether it suits you. It is also a game many people bounce off early (early reviews are much less positive than those of players who stuck with it).

− Most mentioned complaints

  • Boring / repetitive10% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players

+ What players praise

  • Fun & feel30% of positive reviews (17% of negative)
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Counted from 403 recent negative and 592 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count

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Checking the numbers

Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.

MetricPositiveScope
Official Steam rating86.6%All time, all languages · 85,974 reviews
Adjusted rating85.9%Weighted by trust (95% range 85.5%–86.3%), −0.6pt vs official
Japanese-language reviews73.9%All time, Japanese-language reviews (−12.6pt vs overall) · 395 reviews
Show the positive vs negative breakdown

Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.

ConditionPositive reviewsNegative reviews
Under 2 hours played at review1%12%
Very short text33%12%
Key activated outside Steam8%8%
Received for free0%1%
Owns very few games17%11%
Over 100 reviews written3%2%
Average trust (1.0 = full)0.810.85

The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 165.2 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19

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When did the rating change?

Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.

Reviews per month

■ Positive■ Negative
0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 2014-03: +83 / −8 2014-04: +46 / −9 2014-05: +44 / −11 2014-06: +140 / −20 2014-07: +97 / −9 2014-08: +85 / −6 2014-09: +55 / −9 2014-10: +80 / −7 2014-11: +90 / −8 2014-12: +89 / −8 2015-01: +90 / −11 2015-02: +91 / −7 2015-03: +130 / −10 2015-04: +121 / −7 2015-05: +150 / −16 2015-06: +219 / −29 2015-07: +173 / −29 2015-08: +129 / −16 2015-09: +117 / −12 2015-10: +143 / −14 2015-11: +112 / −20 2015-12: +156 / −22 2016-01: +156 / −46 2016-02: +152 / −24 2016-03: +141 / −21 2016-04: +89 / −11 2016-05: +92 / −14 2016-06: +114 / −17 2016-07: +117 / −13 2016-08: +85 / −18 2016-09: +101 / −15 2016-10: +77 / −18 2016-11: +469 / −34 2016-12: +138 / −40 2017-01: +177 / −46 2017-02: +161 / −34 2017-03: +132 / −20 2017-04: +113 / −30 2017-05: +144 / −19 2017-06: +260 / −49 2017-07: +333 / −205 2017-08: +134 / −50 2017-09: +118 / −35 2017-10: +125 / −33 2017-11: +401 / −21 2017-12: +126 / −24 2018-01: +122 / −28 2018-02: +117 / −26 2018-03: +135 / −33 2018-04: +95 / −23 2018-05: +87 / −20 2018-06: +141 / −26 2018-07: +103 / −27 2018-08: +79 / −26 2018-09: +67 / −33 2018-10: +58 / −23 2018-11: +454 / −25 2018-12: +112 / −33 2019-01: +120 / −46 2019-02: +132 / −53 2019-03: +129 / −48 2019-04: +133 / −40 2019-05: +137 / −50 2019-06: +785 / −79 2019-07: +1,166 / −120 2019-08: +175 / −72 2019-09: +109 / −54 2019-10: +461 / −41 2019-11: +1,443 / −45 2019-12: +955 / −68 2020-01: +798 / −89 2020-02: +667 / −56 2020-03: +703 / −84 2020-04: +914 / −136 2020-05: +833 / −94 2020-06: +760 / −95 2020-07: +845 / −109 2020-08: +939 / −134 2020-09: +730 / −82 2020-10: +595 / −78 2020-11: +852 / −58 2020-12: +689 / −69 2021-01: +718 / −109 2021-02: +741 / −91 2021-03: +709 / −84 2021-04: +712 / −94 2021-05: +1,130 / −142 2021-06: +1,356 / −232 2021-07: +3,230 / −479 2021-08: +2,758 / −325 2021-09: +1,738 / −164 2021-10: +1,306 / −118 2021-11: +2,575 / −135 2021-12: +2,273 / −685 2022-01: +1,190 / −176 2022-02: +1,054 / −143 2022-03: +727 / −165 2022-04: +736 / −144 2022-05: +713 / −114 2022-06: +717 / −127 2022-07: +839 / −137 2022-08: +731 / −149 2022-09: +644 / −109 2022-10: +559 / −97 2022-11: +907 / −116 2022-12: +593 / −107 2023-01: +698 / −163 2023-02: +555 / −111 2023-03: +577 / −133 2023-04: +613 / −131 2023-05: +496 / −110 2023-06: +437 / −102 2023-07: +711 / −167 2023-08: +593 / −102 2023-09: +371 / −75 2023-10: +419 / −110 2023-11: +1,082 / −104 2023-12: +479 / −89 2024-01: +612 / −128 2024-02: +426 / −88 2024-03: +655 / −155 2024-04: +617 / −113 2024-05: +621 / −127 2024-06: +765 / −170 2024-07: +815 / −216 2024-08: +500 / −135 2024-09: +368 / −94 2024-10: +347 / −56 2024-11: +647 / −64 2024-12: +452 / −61 2025-01: +323 / −95 2025-02: +287 / −73 2025-03: +305 / −77 2025-04: +268 / −73 2025-05: +260 / −88 2025-06: +249 / −84 2025-07: +249 / −94 2025-08: +568 / −582 2025-09: +238 / −140 2025-10: +224 / −92 2025-11: +435 / −78 2025-12: +277 / −100 2026-01: +341 / −90 2026-02: +240 / −57 2026-03: +253 / −73 2026-04: +260 / −74 2026-05: +403 / −96 2026-06: +320 / −84 2026-07: +309 / −63 2026-08: +330 / −85 2026-09: +260 / −60 2026-10: +144 / −25 2014/032015/012016/012017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Positive share per month

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Monthly data overall 85.2% 2023-10: update2024-07: update2024-11: update2025-03: update2025-08: update2025-12: update2026-04: update 2014-03: 91.2%2014-04: 83.6%2014-05: 80.0%2014-06: 87.5%2014-07: 91.5%2014-08: 93.4%2014-09: 85.9%2014-10: 92.0%2014-11: 91.8%2014-12: 91.8%2015-01: 89.1%2015-02: 92.9%2015-03: 92.9%2015-04: 94.5%2015-05: 90.4%2015-06: 88.3%2015-07: 85.6%2015-08: 89.0%2015-09: 90.7%2015-10: 91.1%2015-11: 84.8%2015-12: 87.6%2016-01: 77.2%2016-02: 86.4%2016-03: 87.0%2016-04: 89.0%2016-05: 86.8%2016-06: 87.0%2016-07: 90.0%2016-08: 82.5%2016-09: 87.1%2016-10: 81.1%2016-11: 93.2%2016-12: 77.5%2017-01: 79.4%2017-02: 82.6%2017-03: 86.8%2017-04: 79.0%2017-05: 88.3%2017-06: 84.1%2017-07: 61.9%2017-08: 72.8%2017-09: 77.1%2017-10: 79.1%2017-11: 95.0%2017-12: 84.0%2018-01: 81.3%2018-02: 81.8%2018-03: 80.4%2018-04: 80.5%2018-05: 81.3%2018-06: 84.4%2018-07: 79.2%2018-08: 75.2%2018-09: 67.0%2018-10: 71.6%2018-11: 94.8%2018-12: 77.2%2019-01: 72.3%2019-02: 71.4%2019-03: 72.9%2019-04: 76.9%2019-05: 73.3%2019-06: 90.9%2019-07: 90.7%2019-08: 70.9%2019-09: 66.9%2019-10: 91.8%2019-11: 97.0%2019-12: 93.4%2020-01: 90.0%2020-02: 92.3%2020-03: 89.3%2020-04: 87.0%2020-05: 89.9%2020-06: 88.9%2020-07: 88.6%2020-08: 87.5%2020-09: 89.9%2020-10: 88.4%2020-11: 93.6%2020-12: 90.9%2021-01: 86.8%2021-02: 89.1%2021-03: 89.4%2021-04: 88.3%2021-05: 88.8%2021-06: 85.4%2021-07: 87.1%2021-08: 89.5%2021-09: 91.4%2021-10: 91.7%2021-11: 95.0%2021-12: 76.8%2022-01: 87.1%2022-02: 88.1%2022-03: 81.5%2022-04: 83.6%2022-05: 86.2%2022-06: 85.0%2022-07: 86.0%2022-08: 83.1%2022-09: 85.5%2022-10: 85.2%2022-11: 88.7%2022-12: 84.7%2023-01: 81.1%2023-02: 83.3%2023-03: 81.3%2023-04: 82.4%2023-05: 81.8%2023-06: 81.1%2023-07: 81.0%2023-08: 85.3%2023-09: 83.2%2023-10: 79.2%2023-11: 91.2%2023-12: 84.3%2024-01: 82.7%2024-02: 82.9%2024-03: 80.9%2024-04: 84.5%2024-05: 83.0%2024-06: 81.8%2024-07: 79.0%2024-08: 78.7%2024-09: 79.7%2024-10: 86.1%2024-11: 91.0%2024-12: 88.1%2025-01: 77.3%2025-02: 79.7%2025-03: 79.8%2025-04: 78.6%2025-05: 74.7%2025-06: 74.8%2025-07: 72.6%2025-08: 49.4%2025-09: 63.0%2025-10: 70.9%2025-11: 84.8%2025-12: 73.5%2026-01: 79.1%2026-02: 80.8%2026-03: 77.6%2026-04: 77.8%2026-05: 80.8%2026-06: 79.2%2026-07: 83.1%2026-08: 79.5%2026-09: 81.3%2026-10: 85.2% 2014/032015/012016/012017/012018/012019/012020/012021/012022/012023/012024/012025/012026/01

Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.

Updates and ratings before and after

DateAnnouncement2 months before → after
2026-04-28 Patch 7.5 is live! 79% → 80% (+0.9pt)
2025-12-16 Patch 7.4 is live! 79% → 80% (+0.3pt)
2025-08-05 Patch 7.3 is live! 74% → 67% (−7.1pt)
2025-03-25 Patch 7.2 is live! 78% → 77% (−1.8pt)
2024-11-12 Patch 7.1 is live! 83% → 83% (+0.6pt)
2024-07-01 Registering the Dawntrail Expansion Pack 82% → 79% (−3.2pt)
2023-10-03 Patch 6.5 is live! 84% → 89% (+4.5pt)

Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.

Reviews per day, last 30 days

0 5 10 15 20 2026-09-19: +4 / −3 2026-09-20: +10 / −2 2026-09-21: +10 / −1 2026-09-22: +6 / −0 2026-09-23: +7 / −2 2026-09-24: +7 / −1 2026-09-25: +6 / −0 2026-09-26: +6 / −2 2026-09-27: +5 / −4 2026-09-28: +4 / −0 2026-09-29: +9 / −2 2026-09-30: +9 / −0 2026-10-01: +8 / −1 2026-10-02: +6 / −2 2026-10-03: +9 / −1 2026-10-04: +13 / −3 2026-10-05: +7 / −1 2026-10-06: +9 / −0 2026-10-07: +3 / −1 2026-10-08: +8 / −1 2026-10-09: +6 / −3 2026-10-10: +10 / −3 2026-10-11: +8 / −2 2026-10-12: +16 / −0 2026-10-13: +9 / −0 2026-10-14: +7 / −2 2026-10-15: +6 / −1 2026-10-16: +5 / −2 2026-10-17: +5 / −1 2026-10-18: +9 / −1 09/1909/2610/0310/1010/17
Show monthly data as a table
MonthPositiveNegativePositive
2014-0383891.2%
2014-0446983.6%
2014-05441180.0%
2014-061402087.5%
2014-0797991.5%
2014-0885693.4%
2014-0955985.9%
2014-1080792.0%
2014-1190891.8%
2014-1289891.8%
2015-01901189.1%
2015-0291792.9%
2015-031301092.9%
2015-04121794.5%
2015-051501690.4%
2015-062192988.3%
2015-071732985.6%
2015-081291689.0%
2015-091171290.7%
2015-101431491.1%
2015-111122084.8%
2015-121562287.6%
2016-011564677.2%
2016-021522486.4%
2016-031412187.0%
2016-04891189.0%
2016-05921486.8%
2016-061141787.0%
2016-071171390.0%
2016-08851882.5%
2016-091011587.1%
2016-10771881.1%
2016-114693493.2%
2016-121384077.5%
2017-011774679.4%
2017-021613482.6%
2017-031322086.8%
2017-041133079.0%
2017-051441988.3%
2017-062604984.1%
2017-0733320561.9%
2017-081345072.8%
2017-091183577.1%
2017-101253379.1%
2017-114012195.0%
2017-121262484.0%
2018-011222881.3%
2018-021172681.8%
2018-031353380.4%
2018-04952380.5%
2018-05872081.3%
2018-061412684.4%
2018-071032779.2%
2018-08792675.2%
2018-09673367.0%
2018-10582371.6%
2018-114542594.8%
2018-121123377.2%
2019-011204672.3%
2019-021325371.4%
2019-031294872.9%
2019-041334076.9%
2019-051375073.3%
2019-067857990.9%
2019-071,16612090.7%
2019-081757270.9%
2019-091095466.9%
2019-104614191.8%
2019-111,4434597.0%
2019-129556893.4%
2020-017988990.0%
2020-026675692.3%
2020-037038489.3%
2020-0491413687.0%
2020-058339489.9%
2020-067609588.9%
2020-0784510988.6%
2020-0893913487.5%
2020-097308289.9%
2020-105957888.4%
2020-118525893.6%
2020-126896990.9%
2021-0171810986.8%
2021-027419189.1%
2021-037098489.4%
2021-047129488.3%
2021-051,13014288.8%
2021-061,35623285.4%
2021-073,23047987.1%
2021-082,75832589.5%
2021-091,73816491.4%
2021-101,30611891.7%
2021-112,57513595.0%
2021-122,27368576.8%
2022-011,19017687.1%
2022-021,05414388.1%
2022-0372716581.5%
2022-0473614483.6%
2022-0571311486.2%
2022-0671712785.0%
2022-0783913786.0%
2022-0873114983.1%
2022-0964410985.5%
2022-105599785.2%
2022-1190711688.7%
2022-1259310784.7%
2023-0169816381.1%
2023-0255511183.3%
2023-0357713381.3%
2023-0461313182.4%
2023-0549611081.8%
2023-0643710281.1%
2023-0771116781.0%
2023-0859310285.3%
2023-093717583.2%
2023-1041911079.2%
2023-111,08210491.2%
2023-124798984.3%
2024-0161212882.7%
2024-024268882.9%
2024-0365515580.9%
2024-0461711384.5%
2024-0562112783.0%
2024-0676517081.8%
2024-0781521679.0%
2024-0850013578.7%
2024-093689479.7%
2024-103475686.1%
2024-116476491.0%
2024-124526188.1%
2025-013239577.3%
2025-022877379.7%
2025-033057779.8%
2025-042687378.6%
2025-052608874.7%
2025-062498474.8%
2025-072499472.6%
2025-0856858249.4%
2025-0923814063.0%
2025-102249270.9%
2025-114357884.8%
2025-1227710073.5%
2026-013419079.1%
2026-022405780.8%
2026-032537377.6%
2026-042607477.8%
2026-054039680.8%
2026-063208479.2%
2026-073096383.1%
2026-083308579.5%
2026-092606081.3%
2026-101442585.2%
Show daily data as a table
DayPositiveNegative
2026-09-1943
2026-09-20102
2026-09-21101
2026-09-2260
2026-09-2372
2026-09-2471
2026-09-2560
2026-09-2662
2026-09-2754
2026-09-2840
2026-09-2992
2026-09-3090
2026-10-0181
2026-10-0262
2026-10-0391
2026-10-04133
2026-10-0571
2026-10-0690
2026-10-0731
2026-10-0881
2026-10-0963
2026-10-10103
2026-10-1182
2026-10-12160
2026-10-1390
2026-10-1472
2026-10-1561
2026-10-1652
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Recent sentiment

PeriodPositiveReviews
Last 30 days85.2%290
Last 180 days82.1%2,439
All time86.6%85,974
Japanese, last 180 days76.0%25
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