We Really Need To Talk About The State And Path Of FFXIV

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Exactly, their both card game. These games don't HAVE to follow the current system. Games evolve and get better. Just because something was in FFVIII doesn't mean it HAS to be in FFXIV for the same reason Fallout doesn't need to follow FFVIII. FFXIV can be different then it is now. It doesn't have to follow the archaic systems designed to waste a player's time. It can be better unlike what Fyce is suggesting.

.....I think you missed the main point I was getting at with that analogy. Certain genres of games follow certain rules, that's how they stay within that genre. That's how the genres all have their own identities. You shouldn't find puzzles within a fighting game no more than you should find platforming in a racing game. Rules were made for a reason. We need the genres to have specific identifiers or players, as well as consumers, would never know what on earth they're buying into.

Games don't evolve and get better by breaking their own house rules. Technology and design evolves and makes them better. There's a difference. Blackjack will still follow it's own rules and so will Texas Hold 'Em whether they're both card games or not, and no matter how much they improve on the physical cards themselves.

You're not going to play Blackjack with another set of rules that weren't designed to be played with Blackjack.

MMO's have always been about grinds since Everquest. That's not going to change whether you care to admit towards it or not. An MMO is designed to keep players interested for a longer amount of time than a single player turnout can. Once you're done with a single player game, you usually never go back to it. The whole point of an MMO is to keep coming back to it since that's how the company makes money.

What you're suggesting is that they essentially and purposely sabotage themselves and go bankrupt by enforcing single player game rules into a multi-player game possibly or change the design, but you didn't really give any good ideas or substance regarding that.

You don't walk into a casino with a want to play Blackjack at a Poker table. That's not how it works.