Quote Originally Posted by Heroman3003 View Post
Every game will fail eventually. Although seeing the way game has absolutely boomed with success in both ShB and EW, I see 0 reason why 7.0 will not follow same footsteps in terms of core design philosophy. Which will keep it successful for at least some time, even if the 'harcore mmo players' of the forum negativity squad will quit for real and not to return the moment next patch drops. Plainly put, its not a game for that kind of player anymore, because that kind of player is scarce and not profitable, while MMO is a very expensive genre, especially with modern booming game costs, and this game has only exploded in both popularity and profitability by replacing things that appeal to hardcore players with things that appeal to casual players.. Over next decade, you will see more games try to repeat ff14's formula, and not ARR/HW FF14, but Shadowbringers FF14, which over time will become the new standard of MMOs, just like WoW set its own with WotLK
I did not realize it is pro-casual to introduce housing lottery bugs, write the worst post-expac storyline we've seen in this game, and continue screwing up character customization for Viera and Hrothgar