Quote Originally Posted by Blarp View Post
His opinion is that the game isn't worth paying for. His opinion happens to be in the majority. That's all I was saying.
The majority weren't playing because the game itself had a bad foundation, which was true while the game was free for a year. They didn't leave because they had to pay, they left because the game was a broken mess. The "majority" who would leave now are generally the people who didn't even play/barely played or still wanted the game to be F2P because if you remember a lot of arguments from said people they stated even "FFXIV 2.0" is still only a "right step forward but still not worth paying for".

As someone said, if you compare those who play in-game versus the forum, there's no where near as much negativity regarding the game.

For example, on the forums people say crafting is the 'worst grind ever', yet stepping into Ul`dah all I see and hear next to the music is crafting sounds as well as emotes.

It's the majority of the specific forum community that says they will or will not pay, not the majority who play the game since not everyone uses the forums, for example if you combine poll results, they aren't anywhere the 30,000k it was "stated" to be the current population of XIV.