Young players are not going to play FF14

[Noumenon]

Beyond this, they've endeavored to make XIV appeal to mainstream audiences, i.e. non-gamers or new gamers.

This is the most hilarious thing I've heard all day.

Mainstream audiences are not going to play ANY MMO, period.

[Kes13a]

This is the most hilarious thing I've heard all day.

Mainstream audiences are not going to play ANY MMO, period.

is that so. wonder how WoW got so big? oh yeah.. they appealed to groups that werent actually gamers and got them into gaming. (mainstream audiences)

you sure nailed that one. definitely a failed method of approach

[RitsukoSonoda]

is that so. wonder how WoW got so big? oh yeah.. they appealed to groups that werent actually gamers and got them into gaming. (mainstream audiences)

you sure nailed that one. definitely a failed method of approach

Nah, WoW got popular because Blizzard gave their marketing team an infinite budget to work with resulting in them flooding every magazine and website they could find with ads, flooding TV with celebrity commercials, and stores with any kind of merch imaginable... including "adult" toy stores... >.>

Basically it was a massive hype engine pushing a mediocre to decent product.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Nah, WoW got popular because Blizzard gave their marketing team an infinite budget to work with resulting in them flooding every magazine and website they could find with ads, flooding TV with celebrity commercials, and stores with any kind of merch imaginable... including "adult" toy stores... >.>

Basically it was a massive hype engine pushing a mediocre to decent product.

I would also argue the game came at the right place at the right time when online social interaction was starting to boom. That in of itself caused so many casual people who didnt even fully play the game but instead used it as a medium to interact and hang out with friends.

[Kes13a]

I would also argue the game came at the right place at the right time when online social interaction was starting to boom. That in of itself caused so many casual people who didnt even fully play the game but instead used it as a medium to interact and hang out with friends.

they arent wrong though, they changed gaming, and all because they basically did aggressive marketing. did it improve gaming, no, I think there is a lot of arguments against them making it 'better'. but they did change the landscape, and the way that execs thought of the gaming community. good or bad, it brought people like the OP and others into games

[Renalt]

and stores with any kind of merch imaginable... including "adult" toy stores... >.>

I hope there is an adult toy of this...


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[Atelier-Bagur]

This is the most hilarious thing I've heard all day.

Mainstream audiences are not going to play ANY MMO, period.

Have you been living under a rock for the past few decades or so? How do you explain WoW's initial success where everyone played it and broke out into this cultural phenomenon. It was THE game; and it happened to be an MMO.