Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
I also dislike Yoshi-P's "go play other games" comment being used as a get out of jail free card for any criticism of the game, especially when you question the complete lack of "midcore" content. Wanting a bit more to do isn't a bad thing and I find the idea of a vacuum between casual and hardcore completely laughable.
FF14 badly needs some competition in the MMO market imo.

You can only make a statement like "go pay for another game to entertain you so we don't need to provide long term content" if there are no better games and you know your customers will likely stay subbed and come crawling back for the next patch.

If there were really good MMO's out there, it would be a massively risky statement to make. If for example I got bored of 6.2 a week in and went and got invested into some other really good MMO's ...why would I come back for 6.3? I found a better game and I'm invested into it. I don't need ff14 anymore.
The devs have become very relaxed with ff14 because all they have to do is stick to same, tired, safe formula patch after patch and their subscriber count stays stable. Currently ff14 is doing really well, because there's not really anything better to move to. It feels strange to say it, but I hope WoW's new expansion is a huge success.