The fans will be here when it's all said and done

[Mags]

The fans stayed with 1.0 but we all know how that turned out and thats how 2.0 came to be so good luck with that.

It'll be how it'll be. FFXIV 1.0 was successful for those enjoying it. SE just wanted more subs and thought to gain by adhering to a modern MMO model overall. I can't blame them, I didn't play 1.0 more than a month. I've played 2.0 for 3 plus months now including alpha/beta testing.

[Maxthunder]

It'll be how it'll be. FFXIV 1.0 was successful for those enjoying it. SE just wanted more subs and thought to gain by adhering to a modern MMO model overall. I can't blame them, I didn't play 1.0 more than a month. I've played 2.0 for 3 plus months now including alpha/beta testing.

It wont be successful as you say if players keep leaving. Dont fool yourself players are leaving and they will continue to do so as long as this game remains stagnant. If there is nothing dynamic about the open world than it is stagnant and we all know that once you explore everyting once you cap your jobs on fates that the open world has no use. Dungeons are stagnant as well not to mention they are boring, they are always the same never change there is nothing dynamic about them either. Basicly 2.0 is a cash grab nothing more nothing less, the world should feel alive but it dosent and thats the truth, dont be blinded and open your eyes to the truth.

[Bizniztyme]

It wont be successful as you say if players keep leaving. Dont fool yourself players are leaving and they will continue to do so as long as this game remains stagnant. If there is nothing dynamic about the open world than it is stagnant and we all know that once you explore everyting once you cap your jobs on fates that the open world has no use. Dungeons are stagnant as well not to mention they are boring, they are always the same never change there is nothing dynamic about them either. Basicly 2.0 is a cash grab nothing more nothing less, the world should feel alive but it dosent and thats the truth, dont be blinded and open your eyes to the truth.

LOL the TRUTH....too funny!!!!!!

[Doo]

It wont be successful as you say if players keep leaving. Dont fool yourself players are leaving and they will continue to do so as long as this game remains stagnant. If there is nothing dynamic about the open world than it is stagnant and we all know that once you explore everyting once you cap your jobs on fates that the open world has no use. Dungeons are stagnant as well not to mention they are boring, they are always the same never change there is nothing dynamic about them either. Basicly 2.0 is a cash grab nothing more nothing less, the world should feel alive but it dosent and thats the truth, dont be blinded and open your eyes to the truth.

With crafting and leveling being so easy to reach max, I'm just wondering how the population will look like once most players have leveled all the classes they want to level to max.

How do you make money when everyone has multi level 50 crafts?

[Maxthunder]

With crafting and leveling being so easy to reach max, I'm just wondering how the population will look like once most players have leveled all the classes they want to level to max.

How do you make money when everyone has multi level 50 crafts?

Thats a very good point and to this day even I dont have the answer to that.

[Mags]

It wont be successful as you say if players keep leaving. Dont fool yourself players are leaving and they will continue to do so as long as this game remains stagnant.

Thus I said in my OP.. the fans will be here when it's all said and done. I never said it'll be enough for SE to keep the game going. However I am willing to bet you anything, that once this game launches a couple of expansions the content will be coming out our rears. I will not say this game is a failure now when it's less than 6 months old.

[Arale]

Thus I said in my OP.. the fans will be here when it's all said and done. I never said it'll be enough for SE to keep the game going. However I am willing to bet you anything, that once this game launches a couple of expansions the content will be coming out our rears. I will not say this game is a failure now when it's less than 6 months old.

I think this depends on how much they can push out in those 3 month periods. Other MMO's release small contant updates/additions/balances/etc inbetween big patches, so it eases things on the player, whereas ARR likes to pull it all into one shot. My worry is if patches don't add enough, then even the fans will get bored and eventually consider leaving. If they continue on this slow crawl, then I don't see content lasting past the first few weeks of each major patch.