“Console limitations” excuse will not hold up in 2020..

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Firstly, wow, I didn’t know that about WildStar lol. I never played it so it’s a shocker to me that it’s in decline due to it being hardcore. That sucks and all, but my only arguement to that is: Remember 2.x and 3.x of FFXIV when things were fairly difficult and kind of hardcore? Especially the favors patch in HW. Crafting was absolutely brutal back then. From what I remember, FFXIV did just fine during that time, unless you can show me sales statistics of it failing then.

Plus, it’s Final Fantasy. A huge franchise in the gaming community. I just don’t think many people would let the game die due to hardcore activities. I just find accessibility to be slightly insulting to die hard fans, especially. It’s even more insulting when developers refuse to put in at least a few more hardcore activities with worth while rewards.

An MMO doesn’t need to be hardcore only, it can just have hardcore activities with worthwhile rewards, that separate a player’s work ethic. For example. If you clear 5 difficult Yorha raid bosses (let’s pretend this is like Alexander savage) on Savage difficulty, you receive a 2B hairstyle that cannot be sold on the marketboard, and a Pod minion that can be sold on the marketboard. What do you see wrong with something like that?

No, wildstar is dead, as in, shut down, no longer available dead.


Crafting wasn't brutal in 2.x or 3.x. it was tedious.

Also, as for your statistics on xiv doing just fine then, I'd like to point out that Alexander Gordias savage was tuned so high, that it broke statics to the point that the games raiding scene didn't recover until Creator, a year later. Even then, it didn't return to coil levels of popularity until Stormblood.

Also, yes its a huge franchise. But look at ffxi. It was "super hardcore" and also Final Fantasy, and yet, XIV has had a much larger playerbase, in part due to the accessibility. You take that away, and those die hard fans of FF aren't going to stick out a game they don't enjoy.

Harder content is fine. I do savage, I enjoy difficult content. However, you can't say to ignore the most populous of the playerbase because that is what keeps the game going. Removing accessibility is not the way to make the game better. That is how you make your game die.