Casual players leaving for frustration or hardcore players leaving from boredom.

[Doki]

I've joined like 4 free companies now trying to do coil just to have them fragment & disband because people are tired of coil / failing at T5. I've also seen like 4 or 5 good players disappear a few days after actually clearing T5. I already have everything at 50, and outside of getting the rest of the luminaries, or grinding up my chocobo, I really am out of things to do. I suspect that 2.2 will be a day or two of clearing the new storyline, followed by a week or so of possibly maybe farming an easier T5... and then being stuff farming new tomes until I have enough gear to survive T6. MEH.

[Akiza]

Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn was never trying to be revolutionary or light that MMO genre on fire they just wanted to be the best Final Fantasy game and the best Final Fantasy will be an MMO. Elder Scrolls Online, Wildstar and Everquest Next are promising to be revolutionary and a new type of MMORPG but we all now that won't happen and they will use the same formula as the MMORPGS that came before and people will complain pans troll those games on the forum just like this one and quit after a month.

[Akiza]

This game is dying.

This game isn't dying it's just that the MMORG genre has plateaued. Over 1.8 million subs isn't dying

[Phaydra]

Ah the oh "I didn't like it so the game is horrible and everything you said is a lie" remark. Aion NEVER had WEEK lockouts. Never. You call it a "fail" title yet it had more subs than ffxiv EASILY. It had a lot of grind I give you that, but grinding isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about how much content it had, and it released with a lot. Without having to lock you out for a week. If you lagged during siege it was because your comp couldn't handle it. It was several threads about that lol.

Anyway main point is, Aion RELEASED with way more content than FFXIV and that was what, 4 years




/facepalm

It released in Korea still with all the content I mentioned.

Aion had grind not content. They used the grind to give them time to add content. Aion had a tiny game world at the start. It only had 2 end game sets for each class. One for PVP and one for PVE. Most NA players left the game before the 6 month mark, and they started merging servers less then a year after NA release. They had to go FTP to keep that ship sailing. I do not think it would be considered a good example for any MMO designer to follow unless they want lots of fail. I know what you think happened, and it doesn't follow what really happened. It didn't even have the content you mentioned for NA release. You were not the only person to play the game and some of us were there at release. We know how bad Aion's content was.

Just so you know NA release was September 22, 2009
First Server merger July 2010
Padmarashka's Cave was released in 2011 (2.7)
The only alliance content on release was fort sieges and mass pvp.

[Tiggy]

I'm really hoping so; it's quotes from yoshi naming this a casual game and nerfing CT because it was presumably going to be too difficult for players makes me nervous for future content.

Oh do tell me you want to do a dungeon with 16 random people from other servers that is so difficult you wipe from one mistake. Please tell me that's actually something you'd enjoy because the way I see it we already struggle to have half decent CT runs with 16 other random people when it's this easy. Maybe if we could create our own full alliances yes, but nerfing this content down to where it is was the correct decision.

[Nadrojj]

Gwaeron. you're in the minority. Vast majority of people in FFXIV have not seen Twintania nor have they beat all three primals. Cast whatever judgment you want on whether you think players are bad, or the content is easy.... but it's a reality.

Many hardcore players (or monday only players) think there is an overrepresentation of people in the same situation as them. Truth be told, they are probably in the top 5%.

Lol come to Wineport on Balmung on a monday night, 3/4 of the server is there.

[Khronikos]

You just went off on the game because the extreme fights aren't friendly to unskilled players looking to get carried through content. This would suggest that you want the game to be made easier, so that these unskilled players can do everything. Now you're saying FFXIV is one of the easier MMOs. I'm not sure even you know what it is that you would want.

You will find that a lot of these people are confused tweens who have absolutely no idea what they want. What they really want is infinite content so they can live in this game.

[SummonerSenah]

Lol come to Wineport on Balmung on a monday night, 3/4 of the server is there.

I have to call BS on that. Even on Sunday there are Coil groups in the Party Finder. 3/4 of the server doing it on Monday only is an exaggeration.

[Tiggy]

Lol come to Wineport on Balmung on a monday night, 3/4 of the server is there.

We have an estimated 28,000 people on our server. I'm on Balmung as well and my static runs every Monday. I sure as hell don't see 21,000 people on in Winport alone (3/4th of 28000). Hell the server can only support 7500 at peak capacity. You're extreme over exaggerations don't help your argument at all. Yes, while there are many people there on Monday you can't use that to suggest that most of the server fights Twintania, or even attempts the coil at all. Those of us challenging her are in the minority, and those of us able to beat her are in an even smaller minority.

People bum rush content on Monday after the caps reset. That one day alone is not an indication of how many people on our server tackle this content. At all.

[Doo]

I've joined like 4 free companies now trying to do coil just to have them fragment & disband because people are tired of coil / failing at T5.

Woo! nothing worst in this game then getting stuck at a phase. Repeat X amount of time for weeks till you get that phase down so you can get stuck at the next.