Melbourne International games week Interview about content

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Yoship going from "play other games" after complaints from players of feeling like there is a lack of content recently to essentially asking/begging people to "not retire and stay with the game" is like a complete flip he is doing. Him asking people to now not quit and give them a chance to prove upcoming content will be good makes me feel there isn't any faith in post expansion content that will be able to keep players. It somewhat worries me he is asking people to not leave and makes me think there is a bigger drop off of subs then the previous 2 expansions had on release but I could be worrying too much or reading too much into his statements.

Yeah, I'm under the impression they didn't take the critics of EW patches as seriously as they should have, probably because the subs were still there. Leaving a mmo is a long process, and DT has been a breaking point for a lot of players. When players reach that point (despite the whole "loosing your house and probably never get on again") the problem is already very deep. WoW lived that with its exodus, and at least Blizzard wanted to get their game right, and tried to fix thing up. It worked. But I'm pretty sure not all MMO can do that. Wow could do it because it's wow. Technically, I think SE could do it, but with their "we don't want to invest in FFXIV" mentality, I fear they won't be able to fix the problem.

The worst thing in this story is that the lessons from the period between 1.0 and 2.0 has been forgotten. Discuss with your players, listen to their complaints and try to do things so the players want to stay. Instead of that they fished for new players they might get by trying to make the game so solo friendly.