One Year Later - Opinion Poll

[mysterytaru]

Obviously if you filter out people who dislike the game (i.e., those who think SE are not adding stuff fast enough, changing stuff for the worse, and think it's a crap game), then all that's left will be people who like the game (people who like the speed of progress, the changes, and think it's just an all-round fun time). So it's statistically fallacious to gauge popular opinion by asking only the latter group of people, which is what you do when you conduct a poll in a FFXIV forum where most of the people who are unhappy would have already left, and hence be unable to participate in the survey.

So the people who didn't like it.....left. Imagine that. Maybe you should consider that option because, with all the trolling you do of both the people who enjoy it and the dev team, you clearly don't belong here. As long as you enjoy trolling, and I don't mean trolling trolls like people do to you and others like you, there will be people with a sense of justice to continue to report you and get you banned from the forums til they outright ban your SE account.

[Eunys]

The only one I find interesting is I find it hard to believe people marked they are willing to start paying for FFXIV in this state. The content just isn't there yet, not to mention combat system isn't final. Overall I like the direction of the game so far, but it's just not there yet to keep my attention for long.

[User201109011315]

I'm just saying that this survey is not statistically thorough. That's not "trolling" or whatever other bourgeois word you like to call it. The population of this survery is simply not a representative sample of "popular opinion".

[User201109011315]

The only one I find interesting is I find it hard to believe people marked they are willing to start paying for FFXIV in this state. The content just isn't there yet, not to mention combat system isn't final. Overall I like the direction of the game so far, but it's just not there yet to keep my attention for long.

If you just started playing, you might get a good month or two out of it...

[Neptune]

Compaired to other MMO's and SE's other tittles it is average, which is still pretty good. And it's only getting better.

With all due respect, cut the bullshit, this game is not average, is not even close to average, and to call it that even among SE tittles is just Bullshit!

You two have got something on your mind but I don't think it's FFXIV..

[Zalasta]

You two have got something on your mind but I don't think it's FFXIV..

Whats a bunch of tits...

I kid, I kid...

[Psytic]

Personally I feel this game hasnt advanced quick enough ( look at how fast Rift pushes updates out). As you can see by my charecter lvls Im not in love with this game as alot of you are. The thing is I really enjoyed FFXI and the classes in it and I think the reason why I still check on XIV is that I hope it can one day be as fun as that game but with bettter graphics. Im one of those few people who perfers to lvl in groups instead of solo questing. There isn't many of those games left and I dont think this game will be focused on that either in the end but I feel it has a better chance then WoW at providing that playstyle to me.

[Xatsh]

Personally I feel this game hasnt advanced quick enough ( look at how fast Rift pushes updates out). As you can see by my charecter lvls Im not in love with this game as alot of you are. The thing is I really enjoyed FFXI and the classes in it and I think the reason why I still check on XIV is that I hope it can one day be as fun as that game but with bettter graphics. Im one of those few people who perfers to lvl in groups instead of solo questing. There isn't many of those games left and I dont think this game will be focused on that either in the end but I feel it has a better chance then WoW at providing that playstyle to me.

Atm I see the other, I am with you with the group leveling and that is the main draw that keeps me from looking else where.

They are putting many group level thing. Bstmen settlements, dungeons, they are adding SP bonuses for chaining mobs in a party (XIish like system), and changing mob placement and respawn to better allow for group play.

The game lacks content but so far they seem to focusing alot on group leveling in the future which is why I am still on the positive side of this game's future.

[Azurus]

Its not biased at all and its not even attempting to poll everyone. However, it will give a nice picture of part of what the community thinks. To be completely honest, non-fans have no right of even offering suggestions, comments, or even being allowed to poll seeing as they aren't even involved with the game, so giving them that kind of opportunity on some off-site is what would be moot.

This is as false a statement u can make...What about the 100s of thousands of people that ledt this game? and because they left they cant post in the forums? Do these people opinions not matter? The very large majority of people who own a copy of FFXIV do not play it. and this is FACT. So yes polling a small sample of people who all obviously have the same mind set besides a very few is a moot poll. There are so many people that own this game that cant poll so you are only getting the biased opinions.

[TonyMontana]

I am glad the ffxiv official forum community in general gives the game a C+(as long as its free to play and we arent talking about trying to get others, namely PS3'ers to play) I would say that is an improvement over the scores this same group of people would have given 30 days after release.

But is a C~ really good enough?

One thing is certain by far and away we all agree the game isnt ready to try to sell to a new customer and most people agree its not ready for a monthly fee.

What does that say about the past 12 months? I have heard people on this forum say many time "the game was released a year to soon" but after a year we still dont think its ready for a fee and we sure as hell dont think its ready for new customers. So was the game released 18 months to soon? Or did the dev teams just not get enough accomplished in the 12 months they have had?

I think these poll results will be skewed by white knights and trolls alike to further whichever side of the argument they are on.

For me personally the results of the past 12 months havent been enough. I recently got lucky enough to get myself and my wife into closed beta for path of exile. So I will be taking a break from FFXIV. I plan to keep checking on it from time to time but after a year(even including the changes coming in the next couple of weeks) its just not enough to keep me interested.