Yoshi-P on Character Growth

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Originally Posted by Vantol

Yes, it does? If reason is not death or money shortage, why would you stop doing something that brings you fun?

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Those are a bit hyperbolic. You can stop doing something without considering it "trash".

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

And Blizzard has said over 100 million have played WoW, but now they have less than 5 million subs. Does that mean 95 million people thought WoW was trash?

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Does blizzard still claim to have to have over 100 million players? All im saying is SE say they have over 6 million players.

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Originally Posted by Genaxx

Does blizzard still claim to have to have over 100 million players? All im saying is SE say they have over 5 million players.

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No, SE says over 5 million have PLAYED. They have never said they have 5 million active players.

Well at least I know the direction of the game more clear seem I have another mmo to look for and this be a secondary to come back to after several months/expansion.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

No, SE says over 5 million have PLAYED. They have never said they have 5 million active players.

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I did not say active did I?

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

It felt like he was dodging the question and used exaggerated examples to prove his stance.

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Yeah, he's used to it. I know 2 other instances where he did the same, and I'm sure there are a lot more in other interviews.

Also, he's imagining there is a fundamental difference between the never-ending grind by XP in others RPG, and the never-ending grind by equipment in FFXIV.

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To summarize the interview : making RPG is hard.
And he's not wrong, but his solution is to remove everything that make it hard, and it's actually what make them interesting. The result is a forgery with only some appearance of RPG. Plus, the "rpg like" features that remains aren't the most interesting ones (xp, level).

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Originally Posted by Vantol

Yes, it does? If reason is not death or money shortage, why would you stop doing something that brings you fun?

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RL obligations? Other games came out? People not playing the game anymore doesn't mean they only quit out of being sick of the game. As fun as this game is, I do like to play other stuff or do other things. It's how you avoid burn out!

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Originally Posted by TheJarvisMan

Yoshi P's choice to play it safe in terms of content for this game is what makes it a consistently pretty good MMORPG. It also is what keeps it from becoming the best and most innovative game in the genre.

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I just came back to the game, after I quit right before 2.1 patch (leviathan). I qued up mid day as WAR for leviathan. In total I had 1 hour and half ish wait, some guys didnt click then I had to wait even more. There is seriously something wrong when a player who comes back and kinda expect the game doesn't allow people like me to get things done way slower than it should be. I thought MMO was supose to keep the players in the game not run away every 2 months or 1? I'm only saying this from my perspective and the players? Rarely see people, even in Limsa, where it usually have a big crowd. I was told peopel leave every 1-2 month after HW came out and before I came back to the game I read there is a lot of active players? Aren't data centers connected to the server, so the one I'm in are connected to at least 3-4 more servers?

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Originally Posted by Genaxx

I did not say active did I?

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Then what was the point of bringing it up if there is nothing wrong with it being said? Over 5 million players is an accurate statement they can make.

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Originally Posted by Musashidon

the end is the best part it shows he really is thinking of everyone even though he won't make something super hard content the main attraction of the game he said he wants to do something like that to give those players something they will like too.

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Cause let's be real, at the end of the day, it's not really content to spend hours hoping RNG will give you a .01 to your combat skill, it's just a time sink. I'm glad stuff like that isn't put into the game.