Shut down this monstrosity before you humiliate yourselves
even more.
Your the laughing stock of the MMO community right now.
It's getting so bad that I feel for you guys...regroup and relaunch...
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Shut down this monstrosity before you humiliate yourselves
even more.
Your the laughing stock of the MMO community right now.
It's getting so bad that I feel for you guys...regroup and relaunch...
Uh thats what they are doing? Right now we are basically beta testing for a relaunch when the PS3 version is released.
I am enjoying the game and looking forward to the new changes!
You are more than welcome to stop playing if you dont enjoy the game sir.
SOME of us ARE though.
So don't ruin that ok?
I don't care if WoWfags laugh at me, they don't even have a life
I doubt SE will have some great epiphany because of your words. We have no idea how much money they have to spend, what they have planned for the future, and you certainly have no idea what the entire mmo community wants.
I try not to feed the trolls but I had to just this once. :S
I didn't want to post in hopes that people would let the troll post be buried.... why do I believe in the forum community?
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That's EXACTLY what they are doing idiot. Perhaps you should look into the game's information before you embarrass yourself. They've reformed the dev team and have been redesigning the entire structure. They are, as you said, regrouping and relaunching the game starting the 23rd.
"Hmm, how do I say this politely, SE why you so suck? No offence!"
PS3 launch is gonna be a hard sell. Since the games initial launch reputation is gonna be there when they hear XIV, Stigma!
I think by regroup & relaunch he means Shut down, Rename and Re-launch. So the game has a clean slate.
In the west maybe. There was a decent surge of JP consumers buying the PC version of XIV the past few months, not anything to write home about, but it was enough to show there is still interest there and it's also a console nation.
100x more wiser to just rebuild the current game like they're doing. It'll cost a lot more money to redesign the game from the ground up as something new than it does to redesign flawed aspects.Quote:
think by regroup & relaunch he means Shut down, Rename and Re-launch. So the game has a clean slate.
There wasn't a ton of fanfare at the original launch. Through enough advertisement along with it launching on a console instead of the PC, I'm sure they can mostly overcome any stigma that was built up. Perhaps they could go so far as to add on a subtitle or whatever to emphasis that it isn't the game it once was.
Really the main thing I'd worry about is how they're going to convince the current XIV community to move to a p2p plan. I'm sure several will have a bit of a hissy about that regardless of how the game changes.
Wow. Why complain. just get out already. we dont need your QQin. wait. did I just get troll'd? ; ;
This thread brings out the immaturity of so many. But I disagree with OP. And I also don't think PS3 is going to be its life saver.
I don't get the question....
They're banking on us hoping to bring people back and will no doubt use expansion packs to market the game more. Now PS3 might get released same time as expansion, that doesnt mean the PS3 release will make it better, it will be the past 8 months + w/e months ahead + all the new content that will make it better and hopefully bring more. Sadly though with other games it's going to be very tough. Even if every person was paying now it would be losing a lot of money and never break even. The game will be how it is now for a while and probably go to about the subscribe base of XI for a few years and maybe in the future we'll see, but competition is fierce and high now unlike back in XI's days and even then it took them couple years to break even with a payment plan from the start.
But in the end the game will most likely survive, the "image" of a FF game is all SE have and they passionately want to keep the franchise "successful".
This current discussion in the topic reminds me of something I read on Gamefaqs when doing some searching for certain keywords.
About a month ago I saw a thread on the gamefaqs FFXIV forum for the Pc version asking when the game was coming out. The poster didn't know it had released because he had never seen any merchandising or advertising and was genuinely shocked that it had been out for almost 6 months without hearing about it. Of course the thread then deteriorited into a bunch of gamefaqs trolls slamming the content and claiming things that had been fixed as far back as decemeber. But its gamefaqs whatcha going to do.
The point is, in the US and europe they did a piss poor job advertising the game which might save them if they DO advertise for the PS3 launch.
Oh god.
/10charismas
The Japanese players keep to themselves so that won't add anything to the game for me to be honest community wise.
on topic the only game I know that shut down it servers and relaunched their game was cloud nine previously holic. From what players said, it was done due to the amount of hacking and botting was going on and it was the only way to do it. Oh and the game evony..... due to the bullies. (which was called something else in beta just when launched had a name change.
No one will give me a refund for it :/
EA, RTW, Steam, or the people who bought the rights to publish it as FTP. They all refuse and say one of the others is the person responsible. Worst 60 bucks I spent just to recreate Velma Dinkley and run around in a mystery machine shooting bad guys.