Quote Originally Posted by Rokien View Post
Keyln, people want challenge in there games, just look at demon souls. They didn't think it would be a hit because of the challenge yet, bam game of the year.

The only hardcore mmo out there right now is EVE, which is waaaay over my head and a little late for me to start it up now. As others have said, you don't need 1mil subs to be a success, why not make a game for those few 100k player. Eve has what like 300k or so? They are doing just fine, FFXI did great. You don't need millions of people to make a profit.

If they just turned this into FFXI-2 you would have at least 300k players.
I'm sure there's a market out there for an MMO like Demons Souls. FFXIV is not that game. You will never, ever be happy in the game until you accept it for what it is. It is NOT a hardcore game and I doubt it will ever be as masochistic as FFXI was. A game like Demons Souls is just that, masochistic and I'm sure that's why people love it.