gamrTV Weekly - The Imminent Death of Final Fantasy XIV

[kensredemption]

Leave it W-RPG fanboys to promote Western MMOs over J-RPGs. All I have to say for this video is:

"DERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPP-Pop-"

[Starlord]

And the funny thing about this is.. he only said like 1 sentence... FFXIV.. is Dead because of one MMO.. the end... Some Critic... :/

[Tsukino]

RPGSite: I’m sure once you release the PS3 version it will do well—I do know a lot of people are actually waiting for it—in Japan especially, that’s probably the case.
Yoshida: The one thing that we can do, no matter how many people decide to pay or not to pay—we have to continue showing how serious we are about keeping the promises we broke. Getting back the trust, showing them we’re serious, and that means some will come back for the PC version, and the PS3 launch. Perhaps if they see we’re working hard on it, maybe they’ll want to try it before the PS3 launch. We’re not going to change anything based on the numbers, we’re going to do what we’ve promised.

Basically they don't care how many people subscribe. Some money is better than no money while they continue to fix it up for next year.

[Alexis_Arteme]

What's funny to me is nobody seems to comprehend that XIV could have literally no subscribers and it would continue to 2.0.

They've made the investment. If they can get a little bit of their money back, they're going to try. But regardless, I'm pretty sure this project isn't stopping, no matter how much crying is done.

[Tanoshii]

I like how people can't deal with others opinions without ad hominem attacks *cough* Nuru *cough*

On topic, I wouldn't say the game is going to die, but I do think alot of people will leave. People claim there is a strong dedicated fanbase, but can you back that up with proof? I would like this game to succeed, and really hope it does, but I'm not going to blindly throw money at an inferior product where hardly any new content will be released before the game is to be relaunched. This seems to be the general consensus everywhere except on these forums, for obvious fanboy reasons.

[polyhedral]

Subjectively, it will be dead, to me at least, until 2.0 and it doesn't crash so often. Which ever comes first, or my rites of passage, whatever.

[Betelgeuzah]

On topic, I wouldn't say the game is going to die, but I do think alot of people will leave. People claim there is a strong dedicated fanbase, but can you back that up with proof? I would like this game to succeed, and really hope it does, but I'm not going to blindly throw money at an inferior product where hardly any new content will be released before the game is to be relaunched. This seems to be the general consensus everywhere except on these forums, for obvious fanboy reasons.

People will leave, and people will stay.

What I don't understand is why the critics make a big fuss out of it. The game's userbase is small as is, even if it gets smaller what exactly does it matter? If they think the game won't be profitable, here's a newsflash: the game will at least be more profitable than it is now.

For the past 13 months SE has not operated according the size of its playerbase. Why that would suddenly change now before 2.0 is even live is what I'd like to know. The game will lose players; and just like in September 2010, it doesn't matter. Ultimately they are saving the brand right now, not trying to make profit in the short-term.

More importantly, large companies manage their budgets for the next year around this time of the year. Lots of money is going into this project and the results of December 2011 won't change that (much). In the worst case they'll tune their 7th umbral era content quality to match the size of the playerbase.

[Murugan]

I like how people can't deal with others opinions without ad hominem attacks *cough* Nuru *cough*

On topic, I wouldn't say the game is going to die, but I do think alot of people will leave. People claim there is a strong dedicated fanbase, but can you back that up with proof? I would like this game to succeed, and really hope it does, but I'm not going to blindly throw money at an inferior product where hardly any new content will be released before the game is to be relaunched. This seems to be the general consensus everywhere except on these forums, for obvious fanboy reasons.

Can you back up anything you just said with proof?

Specifically:

-Hardly any new content will be released before the game is to be relaunched.
-This seems to be the general consensus everywhere except on these forums, for obvious fanboy reasons because people on this forum actually play the game.

[Alerith]

Can you back up anything you just said with proof?

Specifically:

-Hardly any new content will be released before the game is to be relaunched.
-This seems to be the general consensus everywhere except on these forums, for obvious fanboy reasons because people on this forum actually play the game.

The fact that they are releasing an exclusive story line and jobs contradicts her right off the bat. No fanboyism needed to prove her wrong.

[Andrien]

Not his fault for not knowing enough