Is SE's Marketing / PR department -severely- hurting the games chances of success?

[Azurymber]

WoW was first picked up by WC3 fans and then word of mouth
FFXI was first picked up by FF fans and then word of mouth. It also had -really- good reviews
FFXIV was picked up by FFXI and FF Fans and failed, then gained a reputation for being a failure in the MMO community.

If your right though and SE needs to attract new players who havent heard of the failure and don't do research they should seriously just make skanky outfits and put lots of cute things in the game and then have commercials with cute or hot girls. Thats how F2P MMOs do it and it works.

Edit: also i liked the game at release. I think it was a much better game than it is now. When they changed the SP system and everything became coblyns and leves the game seemed to die. Before that you could fight a whole variety of stuff and there were all-day-long parties going on

[darkstarpoet1]

WoW was first picked up by WC3 fans and then word of mouth
FFXI was first picked up by FF fans and then word of mouth. It also had -really- good reviews
FFXIV was picked up by FFXI and FF Fans and failed, then gained a reputation for being a failure in the MMO community.

If your right though and SE needs to attract new players who havent heard of the failure and don't do research they should seriously just make skanky outfits and put lots of cute things in the game and then have commercials with cute or hot girls. Thats how F2P MMOs do it and it works.

Edit: also i liked the game at release. I think it was a much better game than it is now. When they changed the SP system and everything became coblyns and leves the game seemed to die. Before that you could fight a whole variety of stuff and there were all-day-long parties going on

while this true to an extent about post sp change you also must consider the amount of active people the game had then also. if you can find 2 or 3 people willing to do something now you could easily get 15 people to do it then. if you have less players in game you will have less people willing to do the same thing.

basically the law of averages. if 1 of 1000 people are willing to do something and you have 500k people in game you have 500 people doing that over the total servers. if you have 30k people playing only 30 people over the entire server base is willing to do that.

granted the sp change did hurt it was not the only deciding factor. it's also not as easy to get leve parties together unless you have a static crew you have been doing them with for a while due to the lack of players in the servers.