I would love to know what % of XIV accounts will go inactive when they start charging for it. That begins on Jan 1st? Maybe that will be an eye opener for them. Honestly I don't wish failure on XIV. I just hate that they thought loyal XI fans would be muscled over to that title. Even if it had launched without any issues I had no intention of walking away from 8 years of hard labor on XI. So I could start from scratch just to get some fancy graphics? Not top on my list of wants. Give me some content, and storylines. A true challenge, and not some epic magian trial grind BS. An expansion with new zones, and a new open end game area like Sky/Sea without time constraint crap. That's all I need to be happy with XI.

Could XIV turn a profit at some point down the road? Possible. Am I willing to invest my free time into a product that choked, stuttered, and wheezed it's it's way out of the gate? A title that won't even live up to the hype of what it should have been opening day until XIV 2.0 rolls around in Dec 2012. In today's MMO market with ever increasing contention for MMO players to fill existing titles, with several monster titles on the way my decision is clear. No way.

Just such a shame that XI has to suffer when a modest investment into it's development would have kept it's user base content while keeping them open towards XIV, because they were happy. How can an error that blatant go unseen?