Press and player reactions to the new XIV

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Originally Posted by neorei

well with GW2 coming out in Aug and pandaland coming out in September we need a good punch to get this game through or we might have to depend on china to keep this game afloat.

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The biggest problem we had last time was trying to beat Cataclysm. 2.0 just needs to be good on its own merits and show the people that it has changed. It's a different audience from GW and WoW really.

I've seen comments like:

"This trash is still alive?" D:
"Looks interesting, I hope it's worth my time to log in again"

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Originally Posted by Fear

Can't really demo an MMORPG, but I bet we'll be seeing a benchmark soon.

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Says who?
Dragon Nest had a demo.
TERA has demos.

If 1.0 was competing with Cataclysm, then 1.0 was a high school choir ensemble facing off against an NFL team

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Originally Posted by Churchill

If 1.0 was competing with Cataclysm, then 1.0 was a high school choir ensemble facing off against an NFL team

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Competing time-wise. It seemed like one of the many likely reasons it was rushed out the door, causing many issues. 2.0 shouldn't worry about the competition timing, just do it right and release it when it's done.

I stopped over to Game Trailers and their reaction is a bit more composed. I'm fairly impressed with how collected the community was in comparison, actually. People are watching to see gameplay footage - both Yoshi's crew and we will have to do our best to deliver on that as best we can.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

The biggest problem we had last time was trying to beat Cataclysm. 2.0 just needs to be good on its own merits and show the people that it has changed. It's a different audience from GW and WoW really.

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Yes, but right now MMOs in general are in the decline cause the market so so saturated with crappy MMOs, including this one (pre patch 1.19). People are hungry for a good new MMO. I'm not sure if we'll be a small market or #1 MMO, but i want this MMO to survive and be popular, i'm not sure the current base can sustain that.


anyways for me, i'm trying my hardest to convince people that this game is worth playing (even what we have currently is worth playing) without some real gameplay back up from SE, at least some new screenies.

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Originally Posted by Arcell

It's a different audience from GW and WoW really.

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The first half of that statement might be right.

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

It doesnt really show the game has been fixed lol, hipster won't like it and will start posting in every game site on how SE never learns anything and FFXIII was terrible game and only FFXIII fabula nova will saves SE from bankrupcy.

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I remember dickblankets like this. They're the same ones that said FFXI would bankrupt SE after WoW released.

From what I've seen of player responses on sites like Massively I really get the impression that people outside of the game really don't understand the significance of the changes that have happened already and the impact of 2.0.