Newest interview (abyssea was a mistake?)

[Luvbunny]

People loved it as it was, FFxi was very highly regarded despite its smaller player base before ffxi and was the 2nd highest income subscription based mmo for a number of years up to abyssea, which didnt change that. (right under wow).

I never met these so called people, all the people I know of love abyssea and very happy with the way the game is now. But then again there are many types of players in this game. Some like you, wished to the old days, the others 90% like the way things are and very very happy. Otherwise no one will bother doing dominion and instead they will make old school 6 man party, heck with exp increase and auto repeat from the book, old school party is beyond awesome - yet no one in their right mind, even bother to do it at all - which surprise me since the xp is really good.

[Natasha]

FFXI was never second anything. Maybe if you completely ignored korean MMOs FFXI came in the Top 4 for awhile.

No it was second, there were some korean mmos doing better but they were non-subscriber mmos.

[Kimble]

Sorry, wasnt speaking of you personally.. Im talking aobut those supporting abyssea, I see alot of 'it brought more people into the game'.

Edit: and like i said, last time i saw it, it was in 2008

It didnt bring MORE people into the game, it just brought people back who quit between 2008-2010. I'm better sure FFXI has been hovering around 500k users since 2007ish.

[Natasha]

I never met these so called people, all the people I know of love abyssea and very happy with the way the game is now. But then again there are many types of players in this game. Some like you, wished to the old days, the others 90% like the way things are and very very happy. Otherwise no one will bother doing dominion and instead they will make old school 6 man party, heck with exp increase and auto repeat from the book, old school party is beyond awesome - yet no one in their right mind, even bother to do it at all - which surprise me since the xp is really good.

really? then who was playing the game before 2009? People who hated it? right~

[Kimble]

No it was second, there were some korean mmos doing better but they were non-subscriber mmos.

And at this point, im going to say the burden of proof is on you to back your claims up.

[Molech]

Take a look, worlds were shut down after abyssea... people came back to see what was changed and they didnt like it which lead them to quit again. Many of the players who quit before abyssea did so to start up on ffxiv and simply didnt return even with the unhappy events around that.

I came back when several friends talked up Abyssea to me, they told me it was the best time to get back into FFXI and that starting over from scratch was about a months affair as opposed to the years affair as it used to be. When I got back and jumped into Abyssea as a player who was as hardcore as they came back in the day that spent up to 9hrs a day camping kings + had a mule watching Tiamat when her window opened I loved what they did with Abyssea.

I started FFXI as a 22 year old, now 30, I loved the fact that I could just log on and get into something that wasent serious or required a lot of investment and the loot was mindblowing compared to all the HNM gear I used to have. As the transition from Abyssea to Voidwatch began, I wanted no part in it, it felt like I been there and done that and dealt with the lowdrop rate mess years ago that was Salvage, Dynamis, Kings and so on, I instantly just lost the will to play because the game was starting to go back into that lowdrop rate mess again.

I was a player who had just about all endgame gear back at 75, I only came back because the game had changed from a mindnumbing grind to being able to jump into abyssea for two hrs a night and make progress. Voidwatch seems to bring me back to the days of slamming your head against a brickwall trying to get drops.

[Natasha]

It didnt bring MORE people into the game, it just brought people back who quit between 2008-2010. I'm better sure FFXI has been hovering around 500k users since 2007ish.

"Square Enix announced that the total number of active characters exceeded 2 million for the first time" granted some of those had to be mules and alts but i highly doubt the ratio of normal characters to mules alts is 1 : 3

[Kimble]

Care to cite your source? That means nothing to me, lol.

[Natasha]

Care to cite your source? That means nothing to me, lol.

Its taken from an official statement.

[Kimble]

Its taken from an official statement.

Ok, and can you link this official statement? What year it took place?