Anyone Sad about the games Decline

[Peprika]

of course this game is gonna decline after two months, just like i predicted, this game is only gonna last two full months and then people are are gonna remain offline till their remaining subscription ends, at a much faster rate then people buying the game.

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

[Yurikitty]

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

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OMG stop already with its a WoW clone. FFXIV is a off shoot of its own game, FFXI, which predated WoW by 3 whole years. Not every game is a WoW clone, and WoW itself is a clone of all the games that came before it. Maybe you are to young to remember, but MMO's have been out for many years now, they didn't start in 2004 with WoW. And say FFXIV is dying all you want, at least this game isn't the F2P crap you see everywhere. Even WoW is F2P now. p.s this is not white knighting. I love this game, but it needs a ton of fixes to make it great.

[Aleksandr]

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OMG stop already with its a WoW clone. FFXIV is a off shoot of its own game, FFXI, which predated WoW by 3 whole years. Not every game is a WoW clone, and WoW itself is a clone of all the games that came before it. Maybe you are to young to remember, but MMO's have been out for many years now, they didn't start in 2004 with WoW. And say FFXIV is dying all you want, at least this game isn't the F2P crap you see everywhere. Even WoW is F2P now. p.s this is not white knighting. I love this game, but it needs a ton of fixes to make it great.

Yoshida saying he wanted the game to be more like WOW makes it a WOW clone. 1.0 was not like XI the goal of 1.0 was not to have it be like XI. These are the choices made by the people at the helm of the game at the time they were/are at the helm. People are right to point out it is a WOW clone because Yoshida's vision was taking a good look at WOW and making a game like that! He did it.

[Onolock]

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OMG stop already with its a WoW clone. FFXIV is a off shoot of its own game, FFXI, which predated WoW by 3 whole years. Not every game is a WoW clone, and WoW itself is a clone of all the games that came before it.

WoW did what every game failed to dothough, they innovated and changed and became something more and different. I don't know if you raided the bleeding edge progression in some of these games, but for example in Rift, they released raid fights entirely bugged and unkillable. This is piss poor testing and bad design. See Twintania in FFXIV, there are so many bugs in this fight it's not even funny right now(twisters, conflags, and adds in 2nd phase). If you want to compete with the market, you need to bring your A-game and have lots of content ready to forge yourself in the market, lest you end up like every other MMO which is nothing.

[Welsper59]

of course this game is gonna decline after two months, just like i predicted, this game is only gonna last two full months and then people are are gonna remain offline till their remaining subscription ends, at a much faster rate then people buying the game.

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

This game is gonna be just fine for a long while. What exactly is the measure of success for people? Having reached 11 million subs? Yeah, whatever. The games success had significantly surpassed expectations from launch, so realistically speaking, I'm pretty sure the remaining players for the next year or two will be more than enough (this is including inevitable increase/decrease of subs).

When new patches release, we'll see an increase of subs/players... then after a month or two, it'll drop again. It ALWAYS happens, even in WoW. That game reached where it did because it came out at a time when the market was becoming accessible by more people, and as a result, paved the way in terms of mainstream expectations in the genre (i.e. facerolling). Not to mention, it had a fairly strong backing by WC3 fans (and earlier).

[KiriA500]

of course this game is gonna decline after two months, just like i predicted, this game is only gonna last two full months and then people are are gonna remain offline till their remaining subscription ends, at a much faster rate then people buying the game.

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

I never understood statements like this.

"BLAH BLAH I PREDICT THIS GAME WILL DO BAD BLAH BLAH." Remind us all why you're here then.