Catering to the Majority

[mr_wazzabi]

We understand that most people wants an instant win button. But there is a niche of hardcore MMO gamers that demand a hardcore MMO. Eve Online is the only thing out there to satisfy these players currently. FFXI started off great but devolved too far over time. We want a game that feel like a virtual reality, not a simple button spam game where you win faster than some single player RPGs. We want a game where getting to max level actually means something and where there are real satisfying rewards and accomplishments. Modern MMOs are a joke.

That's not to say I hate FFXIV. I love it for what it is otherwise I wouldn't be here. I just hate the community and I hate SE giving into every cry baby demand.

The masses sell dude. In the end, it's about the almighty dollar.

[busta]

The masses sell dude. In the end, it's about the almighty dollar.

There are these things called niche markets. Every person is a unique individual. Each person has their own values, preferences, tastes, etc. If you only focus on what the majority want, you are abandoning a MASSIVE number of people. But you do have to have a target audience. It can't literally be everyone. So some smart entrepreneurs out there attempt to fill that void in the marketplace and satisfy the demands of those people.

MMORPGs were born as alternate realities that you could live in. It could take years to have an incredibly well developed character in classic MMORPGs. MMORPGs have devolved into multiplayer versions of single player RPGs. They have become Call of Duty-fied. They are no longer massive worlds to get lost in. And I don't personally have a problem with that. I'm just waiting for some companies to come along to satisfy us hardcore players who enjoyed games like 2003 era FFXI and won't give into crybaby demands to make their game easier.

[Stryker]

SNIP

Nope not true. Only in the true theory of a niche market is every individual seen as unique, but the world has shown this not to be true. Niche markets are now groups of people. There is no such thing as a specialty store that caters to everyone because then that would become the masses. It's like true communism. It's completely different than the communism we have now comrade.

And by definition if you are catering the majority, you are not abandoning the MASSES unless you want to specify that the masses is actually a small group of people. Otherwise it just means you're not catering to the minority.

Many mmo's like this one will continue to offer a buffet style and continually tweak that until they can offer what WoW did. Before that many games were very niche based including FF11. Now that's not the case. Whether that's the best business decision for this game and for other games to come who knows. Maybe in 5 years the landscape will change and it will return back to more of a niche market. But this game needs a big win and that win being the almighty dollar.

Well in this economy it might be the BPS rather than the $.

[busta]

Nope not true.

I'd advise you take some economics and marketing classes. They'll enlighten you.