gamrTV Weekly - The Imminent Death of Final Fantasy XIV

[Nuru]

You mean some dude on a gamer site is already biased for a game so he bashes another to make his point? IMPOSSIBRU!

And these people aren't even paid by those video game publishers for advertising/bashing other games.

or are they? >.>

[Misteyes]

These would be valid pretend points if there were actually that many people playing to begin with The reality is that what little revenue that is generated by the re-institution of subscriptions won't be enough to cover development costs for the next year(let alone the previous). FFXIV will most likely continue being what it has been for a while now: premium beta.

If it was my decision, I would have held off on the subscriptions until the UI overhaul. Regardless of how much content they add or how cool all those animations that lock you in place look, until the UI/lag fix man-douche will have a point: badgame.

They don't have to cover the development costs. SE is not hurting for cash - if they were, they would have shut the game down. I think that SE expects that 2.0 will pay itself off after its released, and until then, they'll fund it.

What they do have to cover is the game's operating costs - upkeep on the servers, CS staff, etc. The stuff which it wouldn't be good business to just keep dumping money in for no return.

And no, random internet video guy doesn't have a point. He just has opinions. Just because he has a camera pointing at him doesn't mean his opinions are facts. The only facts in his entire speech were the number of active accounts he gave for other games, which are not even relevant to the topic. Of the players whom I've talked to in game, about four-out-of-five are staying. Of those who are leaving, more than half of them said they'd be leaving for TOR regardless of whether or not subscriptions happened here.

The game's not dying. There probably won't even be much of a difference. Sure, I only have anecdotal evidence to back that up, but Internet Video Guy has no evidence.

[JackDaniels]

I think his predictions might actually be somewhat on the ball, minus the dying quickly part. It will be a very slow death because of how many fan-boys there are who would be willing to pay post 2.0 (which is nowhere near 4 million let alone 11 million)

[Sav]

People are entitled to their opinions, and I can't say his is unfounded. That being said, only time will tell. I'll be playing, at least.

[Ashra]

I do find it strange that he claimed it would die a quickly. It's already over a year old with a pretty solid, dedicated fan base. I'm sticking around, and I'd wager that most of the currently active players will as well. If this game does die, it's going to be a long, drawn out affair.

I also thought his suggestion that players will jump ship for Star Wars was a little odd. I don't think there is a particularly large or noteworthy overlap between fans of Final Fantasy and Star Wars.

I suppose we'll see. I think XIV will be just fine, personally.

[Murugan]

LOL Western gaming "journalism"

[Betelgeuzah]

Lets get this SWTOR crap out of the way fast so we can concentrate on GW2 and TERA crap.

Hopefully all three are out by the time of 2.0 so the game can rerelease without this silliness.

[Murugan]

Lets get this SWTOR crap out of the way fast so we can concentrate on GW2 and TERA crap.

Hopefully all three are out by the time of 2.0 so the game can rerelease without this silliness.

You forgot about The Secret World clearly that MMO will revolutionize the industry and destroy all competition.

Just in time for Everquest Next!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Hikozaemon]

this guy is a raging moron. F2p games have very limited lifespans and once they see drops in profits they bring the hurt to the players there is no such thing as f2p. It should be renamed Free-to-be-gimp or Pay-to-be-godly there is no inbetween in the F2p market. I'd rather pay a monthly fee and at least have a minute chance of being on a level playing field w/ other players.

[Gramul]

I refuse to watch anything that can't even spell gam[SIZE="7"]E[/SIZE]r correctly.

I had enough of that nonsense in the 90's, thank you very much.