Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
Poll threads are completely irrelvant. The Threads are locked to those with active subscriptions.

Do you honestly believe the casual base would pay for the game in an incomplete condition?

There's a reason why it is called the 'vocal minority'. It is because those who are insecure about their position being in the minoity, often are the ones who speak the loudest to place themselves in the beleif that they are the majoirty.

Your poll, which I read and refused to vote on, is also laced with the same sort of pointed, biast speech that makes any sort of conversation towards choice or compromise so seemingly impossible, and the ongoing conversations so basely polarized.

Hardcore players are a minority of gamers, period. If we are to presume your poll is an adequate representation of our base, then we also much acknowledge right now that what we have in the game is a niche audience.

If you are proposing that FFXIV only appeal to a niche audience then I stand by my initial statement in counter: Why can it not appeal to both camps? The solutions are here, staring us in our face.
Zaaku, I re-posted and bolded for emphasis for you. Of course hardcore players who stuck with Square Enix would be here more than casual players who wouldn't want to pay for the game as it is would be on these forums. Try hosting that poll in Zam and see where the votes tilt. I'm sorry to say, but your pocket vote doesn't count for anything - this game should be designed for the players that will join the game after 2.0, not just those that are here now.

Regardless of either case, you don't ignore one or the other camp - you find a medium. In this particular case, you can have your cake and eat it too.

But this trend of so called "like vote" polling needs to stop. It's horrible misrepresentation of the numbers this MMO should have had this deep into a normal life cycle.