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Please refrain from making such definitive statements. As pointed Amyrae, Yoshi-P already said there will be content for "both" type of players. You CAN have content that pleases everyone, just look at that MMO with 14M subscribers.

No, man...a game cannot please everyone. Not a single game can. Every person has its own preferences so, unless you make a game with universal options where every person can set it the way they want, you won't please everyone.

An example is FFXI. It's a hell of a game...surely of of the top 5 FFs ever made...still, not everyone like it. FFVII? Awesome, but some don't like it either...Rock Band? Mario Kart? Cooking Mama? Resident Evil? The answer is always the same...no game can please everyone. The day someone discover a game who pleases everyone, he will take over the market.

And here we get to the point Xtash said...this proposal of "trying" to please everyone is actually what is f'ing up FFXIV...not because he's putting content oriented to certain player groups, but because he's splitting the effort between them. If you look at FFXI you will see that it is oriented to HC and party play...and this is why it was successful. They knew who they wanted to please so it was much easier to do it.

Here we have a proverb..."Those who try to please everyone pleases no one."...i'm not sure if there is an english version of it, but this says it all about what Yoshida is trying to do.

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And you CAN NOT have servers to seggregate people.

Forgot to say...i agree completely with you about this. I support the global server concept, which means the very same servers to everyone. I'm against any kind of server seggregation, no matter if based on region, language or PvE/PvP or any other kind of preferences.