Any countermeasures planned for declining player population?

[Winrie]

Screw another server merger, i got enough fun from kujata morons on my server, if that happens ill be takin my happy ass to 14, which at the moment is a much better game. This game died when abyssea ruined every bit of content that was alive at the time to appease casual gamers. Sorry to break it to you, but keeping casuals happy on a 10 year old game is an idiotic viewpoint.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Screw another server merger, i got enough fun from kujata morons on my server, if that happens ill be takin my happy ass to 14, which at the moment is a much better game. This game died when abyssea ruined every bit of content that was alive at the time to appease casual gamers. Sorry to break it to you, but keeping casuals happy on a 10 year old game is an idiotic viewpoint.

Expecting others to stay after 10 years of the same game, gaining little new content is much more idiotic.

Disliking FFXI and then moving to another SquareEnix MMORPG is even more idiotic than the previous.

[Spiritreaver]

Screw another server merger, i got enough fun from kujata morons on my server, if that happens ill be takin my happy ass to 14, which at the moment is a much better game. This game died when abyssea ruined every bit of content that was alive at the time to appease casual gamers. Sorry to break it to you, but keeping casuals happy on a 10 year old game is an idiotic viewpoint.

That Abyssea 'ruined' content that came before it, is a telling commentary on said content. SE's reaction to the generally positive player reception of Abyssea-style content is telling also. As well as continually disheartening.

@the bold last sentence of the quote, that is completely backwards. As a business, you do not brush off the majority of your customers to satisfy a select minority. And you definitely don't do that when there is zero difference in what each group is paying into the company.

The HC players are gonna burn through content faster than the casual players. And after they are done lording over those 'lesser' player they leave for greener pastures. Who is left still paying that monthly and proping up FFXI's revenue-stream then? Exactly.

And as to going to 14...are you insane? I mean you have seen firsthand what SE will do when they no longer give a care about an MMO property in their control, and you'd let them have the chance to do it to you again?