Another MMO?

[Ath192]

It's great for there to be a new game, but I am only interested in certain IPs such as Final Fantasy. So for example, why should I play New World? I don't care about it, its lore or its story. Why should I play Ashes of Creation? I don't care about it, its lore or its story either. Graphics aren't everything to me.

It will be useful should it ever become like XI, but it is nowhere near that point. It is actually a tactic to grow the game. Get people who "only play solo Final Fantasy games" to play FF14. In passing, they may have a conversation with someone and end up in a Free Company and get dragged into the social environment. It's smart, really, because a lot of people who play an MMORPG are initially quite anxious and don't want to interact with anyone, but fall into the social environment when they bump into someone.

It's possible. History says it happens to every MMORPG except WoW, after all. However, WoW is proof they can endure. In the age of AI, it's possible any tangled spaghetti can be undone efficiently so that a game can modernize. So we'll just have to see.

To you. People have been saying that since Heavensward and Stormblood. Because it was a formula even then. "Oh the next raid tier will be 4 alexander raids, 2 dungeons, 2 extremes and an alliance raid". Yes, so what?

Not true, but you know this.

Could be. I'll agree that the viral moment seemed like it could be a peak moment. But it remains to be seen. Neither of us are fortune tellers, and it could go viral again somehow or just continue to grow to have a persistent population that is higher than that viral moment.

The worst business tactic would be to throw away a game that is at the current height of its success statistically (a higher persistent population than in prior expansions), put it in maintenance mode and focus all efforts on a new MMORPG.

I hate to break it to you but unless we save the galaxy again everything else we do won't be as consequential, and saving the galaxy twice in the same game seems excessive. So the story going forward may be interesting but it won't be as big. As far as you not being interested in other games or MMOs it's your loss really. I mean just because you want to stay stuck and not pick any more interests that is not a good reason for SE or anyone to not invest in newer mmos or titles. You'll just be the person that never moved on.

In general doing the same thing you have always done and never trying new things is not the best way to live life, but if it makes you happy so be it. Usually when a game is at its height it has nowhere to go but down. So I agree this game shouldn't go into maintenance mode just yet, just like XI didn't when XIV was first announced, but it is time to start investing in the new generation.

The same way you don't have kids when you are 70, you do it in the prime of your life because thats when you have the energy and resources to do it. It's common sense. If they wait for this MMO to die then they'll be like, you know what its a dying genre, maybe we should take all our money and put into mobile gacha games and NFTs instead. This doesn't benefit you, or any of us.