Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

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People have fun by "Beating the game." and playing with friends. People don't like being left behind or excluded. Many people have stated that it makes them feel like they're not getting the complete game. WoW also learned from this. In vanilla WoW only 4% of their population got to see the end game raids. So what did they do? Dropped the raids to 20 man as opposed to 40 man. Still, the majority of the population weren't seeing them. Solution 3? Make an easier form that is 10 man and have the harder form that is 20 man. Each expansion (up to cataclysm) increased it's player base so obviously what they did was right. You want to allow the majority of the player base to complete content or they're not very happy players.

Then your vision of games is completely different to mine. For me a game isn't only fun when you finish it. I enjoy all the ride, not just the nice CGI at the end.
You say "People don't like being left behind or excluded", my answer is: "socialize". Meet new people, try to make friends in-game. Be nice with them and beat the stuff together. Maybe then you'll change your opinion about what is fun in a game.

You said WoW learned from this, when its highest peak of players was right at the launch of Wrath of the Lich King. And that is thanks to the success of Burning Crusade, an expansion with really hardcore end-game which only a few was able to accomplish: Kaelthas, Lady Vashj, Sunwell Plateau...

So you talking about an issue with the population of WoW as just a 4% of the ppl saw the end-game in Vanilla, but is fun to see that the decrease on subscriptions started right when they made the game accessible for everyone.

"Each expansion (up to cataclysm) increased it's player base so obviously what they did was right." You're completely wrong with that. Please double check that information before assuring anything. As I said, the highest peak was in WOTLK (like 12,5 million subs), and as I said that was thx to the success of BC.