adieu FFXIV people

[Arcon]

There's no pleasing people like you.

Very untrue, I'm quite easily pleased. Why else would I be playing XI in its current state?

The main gripe you have with FFXIV is that it has had a bad effect on FFXI but tbh it hasn't made a blind difference it's just how you perceive it. FFXI will always have gone the way it has, with the existence of FFXIV or not, either way it would have been replaced by another final fantasy because they have to move with the times to survive. Try running a business or making a game and you will understand.

So I assume you understand them better than me, because you have made a game and are running a business?

They admitted themselves FFXI is running on a low crew right now, they frequently use it as an excuse not to implement very simple features. Assuming they aren't lying to us, what kind of company lets its most profitable venture in their entire history run on a skeleton crew, while increasing the developers on a game that brought them nothing but disgrace in the eyes of the public and was a huge financial flop?

In case you can't guess, it's the kind of company who would sacrifice both their profits and their loyal customers to erase a black mark on their record. They're trying to save face. And it's not really helping their outside appearance either, because people will not forget that XIV existed because of this. It hurt their image, no matter what XIV will turn out to be now. Many people will not even try it because of their opinion of the original. In a market with such a growth and new MMORPGs popping up in every direction, some of them even free, others with massive fan bases (such as The Elder Scrolls Online, which will actually coincide with the XIV release), how many do you think will go with "the remake of a horribly screwed up game" compared to any of the alternatives?

Trying to rescue XIV was a bad move in almost every logical way, yet they went on with it. Don't give me that "they're a big company, they know better than you" bullshit. If they knew better they wouldn't have lost assloads of money on that game. Even big companies can go broke, that's no argument for anything. Either tell me why I'm wrong or stop defending them.