Survey: How many of you subscibed(and remained subscribed) for the fanservice?

[silentwindfr]

you didn't try a lot of recent mmorpg, no one can offer the same experience actually, indeed the game have many flaws that i hope Se will correct fast, but outside this i'm there since 2009.

Dungeons & Dragons Online, Dynasty Warriors Online, EVE Online, Final Fantasy XI, Mabinogi, RuneScape, Star Trek Online, Wizard101, City of Heroes, DC Universe Online. NOT WoW rips AND came out shortly before or long after WoW came out. So... you were saying?

most of this game are old game have have already more of 3-4 years of existance. you want a game not a clone of wow more recent the secret world by example, that the only one that have some redeming feature for him... all the other that have come out recently are more than lackluster on many point... a lot of them did come out far too early.

[Chiramu]

The graphics in FFXIV is the way I would like to see WoW, more realistic but still cartoon-y. Also, the combat requires more focus than WoW. In WoW you smash buttons to heal or worse, people download mods to reduce their healing to two buttons on their mouse...

I play because I do support FFXIV. The devs look like they make this game to play themselves and that is the way I believe game developers should be when making a game.

[MicahZerrshia]

I have been here since beta v1 and I remain here to support Yoshi and the new devs. They have stumbled on a few things and cater waaaaaaaaaaaaay to much to the uber casual but they did a hell of a job in a super short amount of time and I am interested to see where the game is going.

I love the fact that I see little things here and there from past titles since that is what SE does. Every FF game has its constants, its like that old sweater you wear, its familiar and comfortable. If you are upset that Shiva, Levi and Gilgamesh are in ffxiv you completely don't understand what is Final Fantasy. Now will I stay past the first expansion? That remains to be seen, but they have my support at least until the new expansion is a couple updates in.

And seriously you lost me with the "WoW clone" argument. That's the argument ppl use when they can't come up with anything better to complain about. And frankly its the ppl who don't want to work for anything that did away with anything good and challenging about old mmos. Veruca Salt Syndrome has killed gaming, even single players.

[Cutie_McSnuggles]

Ah..the feeling of knowing that the person who attempted to label you failed miserably and is now leaving the thread so it can progress as normal:

You do realize that all you've really done is prove Volcano's point, right?

[Scootaloo]

You do realize that all you've really done is prove Volcano's point, right?

I could care less if people think I was trolling her(even though I wasn't), this thread ISN'T about it having WoW similarities. So, I'm happy with the fact I've effectively made them out to be an idiot labeler and the thread can now get back on topic.

[Pyreflye]

I could care less if people think I was trolling her(even though I wasn't), this thread ISN'T about it having WoW similarities. So, I'm happy with the fact I've effectively made them out to be an idiot labeler and the thread can now get back on topic.

While the thread title may say otherwise, your OP says this:

"The battle system is boring and simplistic, the classes/jobs are just...ugh over all, and similarities to WoW are so obvious, its painful to even read players trying to deny the fact that this game is WoW with a fancy final fantasy coat."

Don't act surprised when people bring it up.
Not to mention that you seem so hell bent on sticking with your own opinion, that you are just refusing to listed to anyone who disagrees with you.

I agree with Volcano, you seem like nothing more than a troll, and that silly picture you posted earlier did nothing apart from prove his point.

[Tiresias]

I could care less if people think I was trolling her(even though I wasn't), this thread ISN'T about it having WoW similarities. So, I'm happy with the fact I've effectively made them out to be an idiot labeler and the thread can now get back on topic.

Back on what topic?

If you don't like the game, just move on. Try out GW2. Try out Wildstar. Hell, just drop MMOs and go play WoW, DOTA2 or LoL like the rest of the planet. Seriously, everyone else on the planet is playing one of those three games.

Yes, I like the fanservice. I also like the gameplay, and the crafting system, and the graphics, and the storyline, and the millions of little activities that the game offers. But check this out: I also play GW2 and Wildstar. Why? So I don't get bored and end up making inane forum posts asking people if they are only staying because of a nebulous, hard-to-describe concept such as "fanservice".

[SirSaber]

I play FF14ARR because :

- I didn't expect much and was rather pleasantly surprised.
- I never played a MMORPG with so many frequent patches (not counting wow).
- The all class system and all craft system (you can do everything with 1 char).
- The story (not a story of the century but it really well told and the characters are great).
- Some boss mechanics are fun.
- Beautiful scenery.
- Minions !
- Chocobos
- The races (though my fav races are from TERA).
- The music (pharos sirius, ultima weapon, leviathan, ramuh etc etc).
- Yoshida san (because you never saw a lead game creator do so much for his community as him).

FF14ARR ain't perfect but at least I know that the Creators of this game care for the community and even though they do stupid things sometimes they do manage to please and amaze us with their work.
As long as I'll have the feel that I matter as a player and as a customer to them I will stick to FF14ARR.

I do not play FF14ARR for "fan service" or because "it's a wow copy", for me those two arguments are not valid.
It's not a wow clone.
And it's only merit is not the fan service, know why?
Whant to know about a mmorpg that tried to use it's name to make money out of it's fans? SWOTOR.
It's a heavy fan dependant game but managed to scare most of it's players away.

FF14ARR has it's good and bad points but I think people are not only playing it because they're fans.

[Illya]

I read the OP and wondered what 'FFXVI' was. Are we really already on Final Fantasy 16?

[Ilitsa]

I subbed to this game because I loved pretty much everything about it, I got an email to the closed beta phase 2 and after just a few hours had my money set aside for the CE of this as soon as it went on sale, never looked back and eagerly look forward to each patch (Even though 2.3 disappointed me somewhat, but I can't always be 100% satisfied, so I take the few bad with the ton of good, gladly.) I don't see this game as a WoW clone or "WoW with a fancy coat" or anything like that honestly. I see a third person MMORPG. WoW simply mainstreamed that so now everything seems to HAVE to get compared to it, and that's just silly and short-sighted imo.