XIV is Not Being Remade for You/Us

[Jinko]

@ weeble Firstly did you notice the /sarcasm about the theme park .. guess you didn't.

maybe you should go back to ffxi since they made it a easy and boring game i hear.

I am happy playing FFXIV thanks all the same but if i were to go somewhere it would probably back to WoW.

You mention the moogle is harder than Ifrit well, WoW is considered a casual game and that has fights many times harder than Ifrit so I don't see where you were trying to go with that logic.

[RemVye]

old or not maybe u dont' get how they changed ffxi.. people keep repeating this but they still keep insisting ffxi is the place to go. also i left cause the game is 5years old.

LOL.

Also, capitalization is your friend.

[weeble]

@ weeble Firstly did you notice the /sarcasm about the theme park .. guess you didn't.



I am happy playing FFXIV thanks all the same but if i were to go somewhere it would probably back to WoW.

You mention the moogle is harder than Ifrit well, WoW is considered a casual game and that has fights many times harder than Ifrit so I don't see where you were trying to go with that logic.

sorry i dont' do sarcasm very well, lmao it goes over my head. but were i was going was, that the direction the game is going is harder ..each content will probably keep getting harder. yeah there will be casual stuff to do, but the second they go backwards and they become easier they will lose people. if they keep getting to hard, they will probably lose people. i had to peek at the op but i think this one was about all the stuff they took out that made the game more casual. i didn't play wow but i can bet the hard stuff was at the start, then easy, then slowly hard again? just a guess cause i read alot about vanilla days or something lol i dunno, not play it.

[Blarp]

So everyones supporting the casuals and saying xiv will be for the soloers and casuals and all the "hardcores" and "elitests" need to step back. Being a competitive natured player, can someone give me an example of a game that will satisfy my "hardcore" tendencies because all I see is a negative attitude towards those of us who are looking for an experience that requires us to step up our game.

Go try to solo mine (preferably in a Hulk) in low sec or 0.0 in EVE. You'll end up with PTSD and probably extreme paranoia. If you screw up in EVE you lose your shit. Fly safe!

[kensredemption]

yeah, this thread is 4 months old....

I've opened the floodgates, apparently.

[Jynx]

Hey guys is it me or is this thread C[SIZE=5]OLD[/SIZE]

[Teakwood]

I love you, OP.

[Isaveron]

I don't see how Yoshida is turning this into another WoW clone, or to put it another way, "targeting the WoW audience". He's attempting to take the good from both old and new styles of MMORPGs, while also differentiating it from the competition (many of his proposed ideas are things we haven't seen before in the genre). If you want a true example of a WoW clone, look at The Old Republic.

[Mirau]

I don't see how Yoshida is turning this into another WoW clone, or to put it another way, "targeting the WoW audience". He's attempting to take the good from both old and new styles of MMORPGs, while also differentiating it from the competition (many of his proposed ideas are things we haven't seen before in the genre). If you want a true example of a WoW clone, look at The Old Republic.

Or RIFT; but that's besides the point. It seems the game is just APPEALING to everyone. Not just DIRECTED at one single audience of gamers. Which I like; especially since I've been a casual gamer for awhile. I'm enjoying the new FFXIV.

[Winterclaw]

LOL, you do realise that most gamers in the market these days are casual, the market for hadcore MMO's is so small they aren't worth developing for any longer

You might be able to do a hardcore rules server if you want to appeal to that crowd, but otherwise I agree with you.


However I would like to point out a counterargument of that since so few hardcore games are being made for that crowd one that appealed to those players might be able to get a large chunk of the niche. Having half a million players that stay with you for 5 years is probably sustainable as long as you keep the costs under control during development.