Despite its flaws, i like this game a lot

[Mikita]

I appreciate it being free to play, but if SE were to start charging tomorrow I would gladly pay.

To be honest I think the people giving their ideas on what the game should be are hurting it more than SE is, and SE is hurting the game by trying to please everyone. I hope they remember at some point that it's impossible to please everyone, and while opinions are good there is a point where they have to say 'we need to do what WE need to do to get this game done', stay on course and finish this game.

+1!

I do not mean to dismiss the point that the are many things that can be improved in the game.
Neither am I dismissing the people who are unhappy with how FF14 is now.

But here on the forums we often hear from people who are disappointed with the game.

The people we mostly don't hear from are the ones who are happily playing the game now.

If SE is listening, then they are getting an imbalanced view of how people feel and what needs to be done.

I hope they realize this fact.

[Azurus]

I appreciate it being free to play, but if SE were to start charging tomorrow I would gladly pay.



+1!

I do not mean to dismiss the point that the are many things that can be improved in the game.
Neither am I dismissing the people who are unhappy with how FF14 is now.

But here on the forums we often hear from people who are disappointed with the game.

The people we mostly don't hear from are the ones who are happily playing the game now.

If SE is listening, then they are getting an imbalanced view of how people feel and what needs to be done.

I hope they realize this fact.

Unfortunately it is a very balanced view, as the people who are unhappy far outnumber the people who are happy. Take the unhappy people that still play out of the game and the game would die. The happy people are not enough to keep this game alive. SE needs to make the unhappy people happy for this game to survive unfortunately.

[Xatsh]

The Question would be how to make people happy, because people are pissed for opposite reasons.

Half the people are rage quitting because it is not XI, half because it is not WoW.

Some say the game is way to easy with nothing that gives the feeling of accomplishment, some say it is nothing but a horrible grind with to many time sinks and it lack everything that is casual.

SE needs to try to make as many people happy without driving away their fanbase that is still watching/playing the game. The game cannot survive without the fanbase support... its image is too tarnished to attract enough mainstream players now.

Ask anyone who plays mmos but are not playing XIV what are you waiting more for GW2 or the revamped XIV.... I bet 49/50 of those people say GW2. Why would SE design the game for the portion of the fanbase that will just bail... How many tro...Disgruntled players(sorry) keep posting I can't wait for Tera/GW2/ToR to come out. Why should SE make a game for someone who will not stay anyways.

Square cannot afford to lose the FF fanboys, but probably cannot afford to lose all of the mainstream genre players either. But I would say atm the potential subs is much higher in the fanboys category then mainstream... even if mainstream outnumbers the FF fanboys 50 to 1.

In short SE cannot make this FFXI-2 they cannot make this WoW-2.... in both those cases the game will fail. It has to make the existing and lost fanbase happy, and then try to get some of the mainstream.

[Mikita]

Unfortunately it is a very balanced view, as the people who are unhappy far outnumber the people who are happy. Take the unhappy people that still play out of the game and the game would die. The happy people are not enough to keep this game alive. SE needs to make the unhappy people happy for this game to survive unfortunately.

Yes, you would definitely get that feeling if you judge by the tone of the forums.

I humbly beg to differ based on what I see.
Maybe because I'm naturally chatty or the fact that I speak both English and Japanese, but I have many friends across 3 active Linkshells, plus many non-LS friends who I see and play with for hours every day.

Almost none of them are on the forums -- either English or Japanese.
Instead, many of us are much more active with our Lodestone blogs, sharing our pictures and in-game adventures.


But to your point, I hope SE continues to improve the game and that they are able to turn some of the unhappy players back into happy ones.

Like others have already said, that is ultimately what we all want -- to have fun playing this game.

[Mack]

Yes, you would definitely get that feeling if you judge by the tone of the forums.

I humbly beg to differ based on what I see.

Wait wait, stop please...FFXIV had about 600K preorders, based on that alone you would infer that more people hate the game than those who like it. If SE is building a game ground up again, they want to target the people that left, not the people that stuck around because quite clearly the people that stuck around are easier to please considering they pushed through the agonizing first few months of the game. And even if the people who stayed just up and left because of changes the game sees, it would hardly harm the game any more than its already harmed, considering SE is probably aiming at 500K to 1000K player base as opposed to the handful that play today.