[Gratitude] PS2 Limitations

[Alhanelem]

Now, if you know anyone playing Runescape or Everquest, you might find converts there. World of Warcraft, maybe, but if they like the gameplay there they'd like FFXIV more.

You know, I signed up to FFXI while waiting for WoW to come out. At the time I was into the Warcraft RTS series (i.e. warcraft II and III) and I was excited about the prospect of an RPG in the universe. But a friend got me into FFXI and I ended up sticking with that. Even though I did play WoW for a while, it was just a lot more repetitive and it had very little actual story at the time- It wasn't until many years down the road that they started putting any real effort into a storyline. FFXI had more jobs and a lot more variety in its content, these were the main things that kept me on team Final Fantasy over team Warcraft.

I will accept that you're mostly correct that anyone in FFXIV who knows about FFXI are largely former or even current FFXI players or people who know but either think it shut down or aren't interested. But that's not to say there's no one there who isn't playing now that wouldn't be interested. And the upcoming FFXI-themed raid in another month or two will likely have some people asking questions.

Modern WoW is a dying game.

Yeah, gotta stop you there. While WoW Classic (which is not locked to a particular era like everyone here seems to want, but rather is just like 5 expansions behind the current game) has been a boon for Blizzard, helping to keep subscribers between patches (it's included in a WoW subscription, its not like they get extra money for it), Modern WoW is absolutely not anywhere close to dying. Maybe you were living under a rock when they announced not just one but a series of three full expansions? They've got a minimum of several more years of new content coming their way.

Your dislike for modern MMOs is leading you to believe things that simply aren't true. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with you not liking today's games . Even I have grown a lot pickier about what I play and find myself going back to a lot of classic games over buying new ones. But you wanting modern games to be dying doesn't make them actually dying.

FFXIV:ARR -*only*- was successful because FFXIV 1.0 failed and WoW was failing.

Who'da thunk that making a bad game would pressure them to make a better one? But it had absolutely nothing to do with WoW.