Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
The game is super outdated, but as you can see the game does have a market for it. People use a ton of add ons for XIV too. It's just not something that's going to stop but it doesn't make it a bad game. Also, people used guides since it came out. The quests give you clues where things are at and you could go at it hardcore for hours finding stuff without a guide, but people didn't operate like that. Guides aren't anything new and people use them all the time for XIV too. Where to unlock things, what mobs drop what items, where to gather.

The thing is, theres a market for it and while a lot of people here wouldn't return to play it, or wouldn't play a new MMO like that, there's plenty of people that would. Thats why having two MMO's catering to two different types of players would be good.

In fact, this two MMO system could be co-developed and share assets. Imagine a parallel XIV with no teleports, no quest markers, a different MSQ but same map and assets, and you get access to both games with one sub, the company saves money on developing assets... I think both would be alive and well TBH.

A lot of people would fall in love with the alternate version and it minimizes the risk since assets are joint.

Didn't wildstar try to be a more modern old timey mmo? I don't think there's as many people who would go back to a modern version of XI with all it's limitations as people think there are. Didn't XI peak at like 600k subs or something back in it's heyday?