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[Lamhirh]

they might be only custommer they are getting for a long time. Becouse ( as i said earlier ) game habve bad public and horrible reputaion. So even if they make is wow clone it wont bring people from WoW.

Look at SOE. Star Wars Galaxies were a nice game with interesting mechanics, and sanbox classes. some manager decided that cutrrent player base wasnt their tatrget custopmers, and made game a wow clone ( a real die-hard wow clone). effect? they lost half of old player base, gained none, and now game is a ghost game, people play for star-wars feeling and excellent player housing ( hell i am resubing every few months to re-decorate my house ). Also what are you saying is insulting to people who play, and i guess to SE. Cos if SE decide to ingore the needs of minority, it will give them even worse reputation, and last thing XIV needs is comparison to NGE SWG.

[solracht]

Look at SOE. Star Wars Galaxies were a nice game with interesting mechanics, and sanbox classes. some manager decided that cutrrent player base wasnt their tatrget custopmers, and made game a wow clone ( a real die-hard wow clone). effect? they lost half of old player base, gained none, and now game is a ghost game, people play for star-wars feeling and excellent player housing ( hell i am resubing every few months to re-decorate my house ). Also what are you saying is insulting to people who play, and i guess to SE. Cos if SE decide to ingore the needs of minority, it will give them even worse reputation, and last thing XIV needs is comparison to NGE SWG.

SWG was a somewhat successful game at the time, with a healthy playerbase for its time (that enjoyed the game), which had also been out for a significant amount of time before the changes (around 2 years if I'm not mistaken).

FFXIV is a game that came out in an unnacceptable state for a 2006 MMORPG (let alone 2010), that has to compete in an overly saturated market, with a dying and decaying playerbase that was low to begin with, which was bashed by pretty much all the international media.

I'm just going to drop the argument here, I'm only going to repeat the things I've been saying at this point, and you pulled out the SWG card, which I was actually expecting.