4gamer Interview

[Noumenon]

Ho boy. This doesn't look good for the future.

We've told it many times, for month... There is 2 new thread on the subject per day... It's about having long running content available, objectives on the long term, and yet they achieved to still miss that.
The "Young people" part made me smile. I'm pretty sure the average player age in mmo is pretty high. I hate that trend that consist of let's do things a way it will bring young audience/more casual audience in and give nothing to do for the mmo crowd, which is the historic heart of the playerbase. God they're lucky the correct alternatives don't really exist in that market...

their focus on completion rate is baffling. I don't know what to add.

Young people aren't going to play a slow tab targeting 2.5 GCD MMO. He's not going to attract anyone. The same goes for FF16, they failed to attract any serious action game fans. The combat in FF16 is flat out inferior to God of War. There's literally no reason to play it as a young action game fan.

[aveyond-dreams]

Young people aren't going to play a slow tab targeting 2.5 GCD MMO. He's not going to attract anyone. The same goes for FF16, they failed to attract any serious action game fans. The combat in FF16 is flat out inferior to God of War. There's literally no reason to play it as a young action game fan.

Basically this. As much as I loved XVI I am under no delusions about its gameplay flaws and the writing issues that plague its later segments. Overall it suffers from very XIV-like problems likely caused by the same issues in direction/production but to a lesser degree from my perspective, because nothing could ever come close to how Endwalker let me down as someone who has played XIV since day 1 of ARR's launch.