Let's be honest about the future of FFXIV

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Originally Posted by Platinumstorm

I think it's doable, the big question is will Square pull the trigger before the game's ready. I hope not; and so far they don't seem to be indicating that they are.

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Had to quote myself because obviously I was wrong about them not "pulling the trigger before the game's ready".

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Originally Posted by ShepardG

I'm bumping this because:

I called it.... friggin hours before the announcement.

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Translation of the above: "I said something completely different and now I'm scrambling to change the cards to make it look like I was right".

You called a complete shutdown of the game, which is as ridiculous as it gets. Your theory has absolutely nothing to do with what they announced.

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Originally Posted by ShepardG

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2b) Risk everything to gain everything...and succeed.

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This may sound new or strange to some younger folks, but about 30 years ago there was some nerdy bearded guy who went from company to company, trying to sell his own script. Everywhere he went, it was rejected: "Too risky" "Not good enough", "Can you give us some insurance this is gonna work?", "No, we are not interested". The poor guy didn't get discouraged, and kept trying different studios until in the last one, some young executive decided to take the risk and give him a chance.

The name of that nerdy guy was George Lucas and his "risky" script was Star Wars. 'Nuff said.