Thoughts on players of the community.

[Dyvid]

Gaming Stereotypes

The people who are playing FFXIV are the ones providing feedback to the devs. Not sure why you have to break them up into categories of past games they played. Gamers are gamers and everyone has different ideas.

[Canadane]

Canadane: That is why I asked the question to hear the thoughts and opinions of people who where here from the start. Its not even a FFXI vs everyone discussion im asking about how the community looks atm.

Good thing I barely played XI! I actually quite disliked it, just as much as I disliked WoW.
My mention of XI is how I view a part of this games community, not part of the game itself.

[Bhuni]

I only played 1.0 beta for 10 mins then never came back again,

And since then played on 2.0 , the community back then was far more wonderful than now for example:

Back in the days in dungeos when I tell player to DPS marked target when they aren't, they apologize and DPS target then we all laugh and live happily ever after.

Now in HW, I tell them the same, they start arguing about how bad I am in my role (a Tank), nevertheless I argue bit of them till their true colors appear then I vote dismiss them.

Call me brutal but I need to elitist douchbag in my group telling me how to play my role (which I am not perfect at but managed to tank most extreme Primals and up to BC T6 pre-HW) when he/she isn't doing his/her role properly.

So yeah sadly more WoW babies mentality is slowly poisoning the game social and playstyle aspects.

Sorry but you sound just as much as a baby as these DPS that are slowly 'poisoning' the game, funny post though.

[setsua26]

I've found the community very nice and easy to get along with. I have a podcast that i do on this game and single player final fantasy games, i`ve gotten good feed back from this community and there support.

The podcast is ChocoboKnights if you want to listen to it and hear about the community

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ated-weekly%2A

[Yurimi]

@Skizzle: I am seeing that the game already flying close and almost ahead of WoW, as you can see 5m active subscribers in the game right now, thing is with more people the social aspects of the game won't be as good as when the game only had 1m or even 2m subscribers and it is apparant in my previous reply.

I really, really, REALLY am getting tired of the people who think registered accounts = subs. 5M active accounts does not mean in any way shape or form 5M active subs. Sorry for the derail I just hate seeing this touted so often by people. The game is doing well compaired to a lot of the market but please try to not misuse numbers given and make up statistics of your own based on them.

Trial accounts, people who played for 10mins and never came back, even the entire registered userbase of 1.0 whether they ever played ARR or not(since they got ARR for free) is counted into this number of "Registered Accounts" they state and they have never released an active subscriber number EVER.

[Arabian_Wolf]

Sorry but you sound just as much as a baby as these DPS that are slowly 'posioning' the game, funny post though.

It is simple and faster and makes my job easier if the DPS focus on my target, if they argue and flatout refuse to DPS my target = vote dismiss instead of wasting my time with them.

So I am a baby douche maybe, but I can't stand insisting on their mistakes then blaming me for it instead of apologizing and just do what makes a dungeon run smoother.

[Arabian_Wolf]

I really, really, REALLY am getting tired of the people who think registered accounts = subs. 5M active accounts does not mean in any way shape or form 5M active subs. Sorry for the derail I just hate seeing this touted so often by people. The game is doing well compaired to a lot of the market but please try to not misuse numbers given and make up statistics of your own based on them.

My mistake,I misread it.

[Moonleg]

Trial accounts, people who played for 10mins and never came back, even the entire registered userbase of 1.0 whether they ever played ARR or not(since they got ARR for free) is counted into this number of "Registered Accounts" they state and they have never released an active subscriber number EVER.

Trial accounts have been specified numerous times to not be included in the 5m number. I just hate seeing this touted so often by people. The game is doing well compaired to a lot of the market but please try to not misuse numbers given and make up statistics of your own based on them.

[Yurimi]

Trial accounts have been specified numerous times to not be included in the 5m number. I just hate seeing this touted so often by people. The game is doing well compaired to a lot of the market but please try to not misuse numbers given and make up statistics of your own based on them.

Sorry I should have made this more clear by trial account I dont mean the free trial where you can level to 20, I mean the use of the 30 day trial that comes with the base game (ie never paid for a sub) that is mostly used by RMT accounts for fraudulant purchases (the RMT city and tell spam bots) which are banned but never deleted.

[Bhuni]

It is simple and faster and makes my job easier if the DPS focus on my target, if they argue and flatout refuse to DPS my target = vote dismiss instead of wasting my time with them.

So I am a baby douche maybe, but I can't stand insisting on their mistakes then blaming me for it instead of apologizing and just do what makes a dungeon run smoother.

As a Summoner I will keep DOT's ticking on mobs even if it's just two in a pack like any half decent Summoner should.

So you're telling me you'd 'try' to dismiss me because I'm not ONLY attacking your target because you want your Job to be even easier than it actually is?