Quote Originally Posted by Rannie View Post
Vicus please do me a huge favor stop referring to the new JOBS as classes the are not classes. They require a soul crystal to even be used which auto equips when you equip the weapon. Unlike a class that you can equip the weapon and not have a soul stone on. I'll bend that they could have put the stuff outside maybe but at this point in time all the of the new job "guilds are located in ishgard. Maybe they could have put a starting npc out side but I don't know have it take you to inside the city once you accept the quest. The good news is that in later expansions they will streamline the MSQ but as of right now per his interview on zam he wants people to experience the story. Secondly why do you keep saying is bad business seeing as there are 4 million + active subs as it is even before the expansion came out? It may not be wow numbers but with 4 mill he's got to be doing something right.
My apologies, saying class is just habit. Good news is I think everyone knew what I meant.

As to the 4 mil subs, I am very happy the game is doing well (I don't know the numbers so I am going to assume they are correct) but just because it has a high sub rate doesn't make certain practices "good business". You stated "it may not be wow numbers" but why can't it be? Getting WoW numbers doesn't mean the game is going to turn into wow. If you are a business, which Square Enix is why not actually shoot for higher numbers while making "Good Business" changes. The changes we all have suggested doesn't make the game any easier or take away from the story, they just make it more accessible to people. You can read multiple people on this thread state they had friends give up due to the shear amount of "catch up" they felt they had to do. So that 4 million could easily be 5, or 6 or more if some of those stuck around. At the very least all the players that did do their research and read that HW had a large MSQ grind to catch up and decided to pass on the expansion, if instead some aspects were accessible to them a bit quicker, they might of spent $40+ on the game. Thats a lot of money Square Enix left on the table. Thats a lot of money they can push toward advertisements, new hardware, few more devs, paying the current devs salaries so they don't have to cut staff (which makes content come out faster), etc.