Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
In most games though, if you don't enjoy something you have the choice of skipping it or doing it differently. However, whose to say that they wouldn't enjoy something? We wouldn't know, and they wouldn't know because they never got the chance to not do it.
But we're talking about the core of the game here as something they may not enjoy. We're talking the combat/crafting/gathering/etc system. We're talking about the focus on story (which is a huge thing for FFXIV content). I mean, the story is so important to the devs that this is the very reason they give us as to why the new jobs are locked. Chances are, they'll eventually find reason enough to remove this story lock if it gets out of hand with difficulty to complete as time goes on.

Let me put it to you this way, if someone is interested in playing at all, they'll play with that interest. If someone was flaky to begin with, and just the name or idea of something like Dark Knight is the only motivation they find to want to play, they'll be hesitant and critical of every little thing. This is just nature. They might have fun, sure, but their fun will only last for so long. Some exceptions do exist, but not enough to truly turn the tide on adding to the population. Quite often, it's not the game that doesn't give the player a chance to try, it's the players own hesitation or reasons. Like you pointed out earlier, it's something they'd have to pay two times over for just to get the game. I would hope they have more reason than just the name of "Dark Knight" to at least have SOME interest in playing lol.