Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
Great leaders are often great visionaries, working towards an idealistic goal.

Right now many people have taken a break, or are playing less, waiting to see if the game becomes something that appeals to them. Currently, the future of this game is somewhat unknown.

Thus, I think it is appropriate to ask you to answer a simple question:
What is your vision for this games future, be it 1 year or 2 years, or even further down the road?
If you could magically re-design the game the way you want overnight, how would it look and feel? Would there be lots of dungeons? lots of giant roaming monsters? what would the average journey be like? etc.

Please just tell us what direction you would like to see the game go in, so that some of us can decide whether to start playing again and prepare, or wait a bit longer and see what changes come.

You don't have to commit to anything. It would just be nice to see how you envision the game in the future, even if it ends up being nothing like that. Just so we can have -some- idea as to what to expect.

Thank you.
1st, from my own experience (Figaro server) i see more and more people playing lately, but it might be different for other worlds.

2nd, as for Yoshi-P's vision, as he said before he wants FFXIV to become the FF7 of mmos. I'm glad we have him in charge as not only is he a great developper with a great career ahead of himself, he's also a big gamer and mmo player. He said it himself, he does play or used to play a lot of mmo out there... IMO only a person who has experienced MMOs first hand can understand what needs to be done and how to go about making a good mmorpg.