Make FFXIV more like FFXI and less like WoW

[Ahzarhuuk]

Exactly Reeth, perfectly stated. This is absolutely not the game many real FF fans were hoping for. The spiritual FFXI-2 if you will. But it is passable. But passable only keeps people for so long and then bye bye to all those subs and money. You know, we also have to think about mass appeal games that tanked. Looked at the SWtoR debacle. All that money, a sure fire win IP... and *BOOM* (flames). So sometimes it can go either way. But as you said, we will hang here for a bit before we move on.

Having the IP and all of the money means nothing. SWtOR Suffered because of horrendous imbalincing issues that were left unaddressed long enough for it to cause them sub losses, and the fact that they blew most of their budget on their Voice Actors.

That it was associated with Electronic Arts didn't help the Customer Support department at all either.

[Shadex]

Having the IP and all of the money means nothing. SWtOR Suffered because of horrendous imbalincing issues that were left unaddressed long enough for it to cause them sub losses, and the fact that they blew most of their budget on their Voice Actors.

Exactly. Having the Final Fantasy IP with all of its rabid fanbase and a bunch of money to rebuild 14 doesn't guarentee it's a good game. Poor design decisions or lack of compelling content beyond a raid treadmill left unaddressed for long enough will cause sub loss. Interesting factoid, just before launch the SWtoR devs said of their beta testers that their opinions really didn't matter and that they had long ago decided how the game was going to be made but it was important for the testers to feel they had an impact. Yoshi's recent 'deal with it' post regarding his decision on FC housing prices was an uncomfortable parallel.