Quote Originally Posted by Amas View Post
It's cute that the handful of hardcore endgamers still playing think they're top of mind for Yoshida right now.

FFXIV needs to be in a state where they can generate revenue from it, if it is to have any future at all.

Most of an MMO's revenue comes from casual gamers.
Thus my example why easy MMOs such as WoW are on top. It's painfully clear what the team wants done with this game, however as the other thread title stated awhile back that I didn't initially agree with given the undertone of "I'm better than you" - Casual gamers think they're the most entitled to everything these days, and want the game designed for them.

While they are making content, that's a given:

Once there is more variety of content
There will be a variety of content designed for casual play, especially since you opened your post with:

It's cute that the handful of hardcore endgamers still playing think they're top of mind for Yoshida right now.
So you pretty much realize this game is basically going to be nothing but a casual playground, which is fine for those who like it, but will drive away another portion of their playerbase when your goal is to try to get as many players as possible and both hardcore and casual gamers exist in the MMO world.