Thoughts on a shared subscription?

[Alhanelem]

The age of the game is part of the reason it's good, it didn't add all the zoomer trash mainstream players love these days. If they ever do remake ffxi, they will add all that garbage into it.

14 players can enjoy their 8 year old mmorpg with overpriced baseball caps and whale mounts in the cash shop, while playing the latest Nier Automata or PSO dungeon in a FF game. They can enjoy the ridiculous over the top blinding skill effects that take up 99% of the screen every time you press 1 and being in fear of interacting with the community because it's full of twitter potato people offended by everything.

I watched the latest 14 trailer a few days ago and the zoomers were like woooow look at all those big swords when he does a skill!!, that's so cool! and I was thinking how stupid it looked to have all that ridiculous over the top nonsense every time you use a skill. Then keeping in mind everyone else in the party is doing those over the top nonsense effects too, and all the time you have to dance out of red circles for the whole dungeon like you're playing a dancing simulator.

Yeah, let those people stay over there please. I love "old game" filter, it's working great.

FF14 players who can appreciate FFXI as it is are playing, the rest...no thanks

You really need to get it out of your head that there's any way an FFXIV player could like or want to play FFXI. Just because they're enjoying their fanservice hotbar MMO doesn't mean they can't enjoy something different. I know because I'm one of those people.

The game needs at least the occasional new player to be sustainable. This idea is simply one way to help find and secure those people.

You might hate the idea of some younger person playing "your" MMO, but again, for the 45th time, you do not speak for the community.

It is a modern psychopathy, the notion that that nothing is beautiful unless it has been pushed to the maximum limits, the idea that only the latest shiniest toy is worth playing with. It is a form of cultural madness.

The thing is, the people who are wowed by the stuff that comes out today will be saying the same thing you just said about whatever comes out 15-20 years from now. There's nothing wrong with today's generation liking today's things. (There's also nothing wrong with today's generation liking yesterday's things, unlike what Pixela seems to think)