Current State of the Game

[Axidrain]

i dont even understand why he bothered to put crafting in the game. kill it. kill gil. theres your game ultimate game yoshida. since thats pretty much the direction hes going with.

[Laf]

that would be 1.8 mil minus...ya...not very much.

Those are not subscriptions. Copies sold or total characters(I have 5 of them for example) on active accounts.

[Autymnfyres]

I knew this answer with pop up sooner or later. It's time to accept that XIV was never meant to be XI-2. this is its own game with its own engine and mechanics.it's not for people to relive the glory days of 11.

>>>>And even if all the 11 guys left now the subscriptions would still be high enough for square to consider this game a cold total success.

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LOL. Unbelievable.

<<<<Hey you with the rose-colored glasses on, gtfo cuz you are so inconsequential if you all left legitimately in the next month of subscriptions it wouldn't make a dent in the financial success of FFXIV ARR. Leave us and stop with the suggestions for changes which shows you care. We really don't, we're just here to have a few minutes of fun and if/when it goes down the tubes, oh well, it was ONLY a video game - not something compensatory in place of problems we have in our own life like YOU...you irrelevant legacy players you.<<<<<


Ridiculous. But go right ahead and keep insulting those who have been the most loyal - putting their money where their mouth is, being active in the Final Fantasy online communities, spreading the word - free marketing to countless numbers of others who then joined...yea, don't let the door hit you in the kaboose Legacy players. Ba-bye.

***Nods with respect to Legacy players. There, I'm a white knight forum poster for the Legacy constituents among us! So very glad you are here, have been here and hopefully will continue to stay in order to balance the tide of here-take-my-money-this-isn't-really-important-in-my-life-gamers. Thank you.

[Vigoram]

Yep.

You guys realize you're not even 10% of the game's current population right? As is stands now, if all the hoppers decided to leave, that would be 1.8 mil minus...ya...not very much.

BUT THERE'S MORE THAT'LL LEAVE TOO!

...and then of course many many more starting and/or coming back. This is a great game, has great potential, has great building blocks, and will be around for a looooooooooooooooooooooong time.

Live with it.

1.8 million =/= subscriber numbers. Continue to make up facts to prove your points.

[Imapooonu]

but here is the kicker, we don't have to. Most of us probably wont. You cant sit and make a broad generalization like that because quite honestly, you have no clue how many people feel the same way. If something isn't done to improve the longevity of the content, than no, it wont be around for a long time. As it stands SE cant even deliver content that lasts the 3 moths it takes to push out another content patch.

“Most of us….”

But here’s the kicker, people with this point of view are not “most of us”. They’re just not. This game has PLENTY of content to keep the casual-serious gamers occupied for a very long time. It DOES NOT have enough content to fulfill the insatiable appetite of the “mmo consumptionist”. No game does…anywhere…ever….in the world.

And yes, I’m pretty sure I have a clue that the vocal minority saying this game has nothing to do does NOT represent the sentiments of a majority of the player base.

This game will be added to, improved upon, and going strong for a long LONG time after this minority leaves. Happens every single time.

1.8 million =/= subscriber numbers. Continue to make up facts to prove your points.

Fine. 5%?

[Demetirus]

I haven't even completed all the dungeons and trials available. I've never capped my myth for the week. Yet, I still no longer feel compelled to log on anymore.

And I'm the opposite. I haven't completed all of the dungeons and trials available, nor have I capped anything for a week ever yet I just keep logging in. I feel like everyone is so far ahead of me and that I'd just be a nuisance to them, but I just keep finding more and more things that I'd like to do. I just keep setting goals for myself and my tiny Free Company and don't worry about what others and the game itself tries to tell me is my main objective.

Psh, I'll get to the HM primals, ct, wp and ak eventually.

[Errors]

Yoshida, "1.8 million players around the world, 6.7 million characters created, over 400 million hours played"
Source: http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/13/540...tart-for-naoki

1 person represents 0.0000006%(rounding) of the population (doesn't matter if you are a die hard fan, hard core, casual, whiteknight, pessimist, optimist, etc..).
5% would mean 90,000 people
I'm not seeing 90,000 actively using these forums, otherwise they'd blow up.


Lets just be a pessimist and say that only half of 1.8 million are active subscribers (which is low balling in any MMO estimates).
90,0000 actives.
1 person represent 0.000001%(rounding)
5% would mean 4,500 people
I can see 4,500 people actively using the forums at maybe peak times when the game is being patched for maintenance. If they were active users then you'd see a crap ton more topics, posts, replies each day.

Folks need to understand when they say things like "most of us" and "majority" that they have no clue what they are talking about.

[Edenholt]

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Vocal minority? MMO Consumptionist? Man, I didn't rush to the end game, I didn't and still don't feel the need to get everything right way but I've done all coil many times, my raid team takes less than an hour to finish the entire thing, we jump to weekly primal and kill them without wipes, we farm items from them and still we end up without anything else to do. All you need to be good in this game and finish all the content is to have at least a grasp of the skill necessary to play an MMRPG with scripted mechanics and big red circle you're supposed to move out from. If you wanna play this game like a button mashing platform game or action game, then you will fail. This game is no hard at all. So, stop pointing a finger at people's face and saying it's pretty much their fault for finish the few end-game content this game has (EASy end-game content, btw...).

We all know what we have now is just a game release's amount of content, the problem is that the content is way tooooo easy and we won't get anything added to it, they will just nerf the old and add new, making the easy easier and soon enough after the patch we will still have people complaining they have nothing to do in the game.

[Lumiin]

Yep.

You guys realize you're not even 10% of the game's current population right? As is stands now, if all the hoppers decided to leave, that would be 1.8 mil minus...ya...not very much.

Last time I check when they released ACTIVE SUBS numbers it was only around 600k and that was months ago. They do not have 1.8mil ACTIVE SUBS.

I agree with everything the guy in the video said :<

Ya know people can look at your profile right? Just say there's nothing YOU want to do. You wanna raid? Fine go raid. But don't say you've exhausted everything this game has to offer when you haven't.

And there's plenty of mechanics that don't involve red circles.

Why do people keep using this argument? And then will turn around and say "You shouldn't have done everything you play too much"

You don't have to do everything in a mmo! It's plenty of mmos where people only run dungeons and still have fun or only touch a little part of the game and they are still satisfied with the content because it's not watered down.

[Imapooonu]

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Ya know people can look at your profile right? Just say there's nothing YOU want to do. You wanna raid? Fine go raid. But don't say you've exhausted everything this game has to offer when you haven't.

And there's plenty of mechanics that don't involve red circles.