Quote Originally Posted by Onidemon View Post
I remember seeing a gaming magazine back then who claimed FFXI had reached a 5 million players base. But the issue here is that FFXI does not appeal at all to casuals which are the biggest part of the market. As for the hardcore it is something like 30-40%. The game is focused on you spending 1h looking for a party and then grinding 1 type of monster for maybe days to get 5-10 levels. then move to a new area and repeat. The type of gameplay appeals to very few players.
Which is why nobody is asking for that aspect of FFXI. In place of ideas that failed in FFXIV, some of us want the stuff from FFXI that did appeal to people, enough so that even casuals like myself were drawn to it despite these flaws (exaggerated though they may be). I played FFXI casually for six years, and to be honest most of the people I met in game played casually too.