We need to talk about the PC Gamer article

[Ath192]

I thought the contents of the article was reasonable and even acknowledges the truth, that the "formula" won't change much.

The title of the article is what I disagree with. It won't be their last chance to adjust their formula. It may be defining in the sense that we haven't had a fresh arc up until now, but any other expansion after that could be "defining" as well.

I only sort of agree with it not being their last chance but the truth is that just like XI once the diehard playerbase starts to leave because they've lost hope they would be extremely hesitant to recommit to something like this again. There will always be a subgroup like in XI to keep the game alive but it won't yield enough profits to keep up big development and it will go into maint. mode.

[Deceptus]

There will always be a subgroup like in XI to keep the game alive but it won't yield enough profits to keep up big development and it will go into maint. mode.

If the post 6.0 patches have shown us anything: We're already there.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If the post 6.0 patches have shown us anything: We're already there.

I don't think you guys have ever truly played a game in maintenance mode.


They don't hire new staff (or attempt to) or release expansions. There are very few updates outside of small bugfixes.





XIV is far from being in maintenance mode.