The mistake SE (and other companies) are doing

[Gentaro]

Not trying to serve the majority doesn't mean you can't create a great game.

Paint rocks! :3

[Maxwell]

You are totally right. And then the company goes public.... Or signs its soul away to a publisher.

[SirOleas]

I agree, Paint does rock.

I made an amazing 2 color pizza image in it earlier today.

[Dragon]

Not trying to serve the majority doesn't mean you can't create a great game.

Paint rocks! :3

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[Lux_Rayna]

Not trying to serve the majority doesn't mean you can't create a great game.

Paint rocks! :3

Lol...

Since when is it about creating a great game? It's about making money. And making money means getting as many ppl to subscribe to it as possible: aka the majority.

[Zyph]

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[Gentaro]

Lol...

Since when is it about creating a great game? It's about making money. And making money means getting as many ppl to subscribe to it as possible: aka the majority.

But that's the point - theres just not too many casuals on the free market. Face the facts, for FFXIV a great amount of the playerbase came from FFXI

[Lux_Rayna]

But that's the point - theres just not too many casuals on the free market. Face the facts, for FFXIV a great amount of the playerbase came from FFXI

Of course, but they are obligated to try. That is likely the only way they could justify trashing a million dollar investment and throwing more millions at it for 2.0. FFXIV doesn't want to be a niche game, and we probably would have never "seen" it if that was the sales pitch. The pitch probably went something like: "we will be a top competitor in the mmorpg market." Sadly, in order to do that, you *have* to control the casual market. Back in the days there was no casual market into mmorpg's so a game like FFXI could exist and do well enough that it was acceptable to create. But there are men in black suits who want to fill their pockets, and they would never give a project a chance unless it planned on competing for the casual market. That's just where the money is.

You and I both know it could *never* compete in the casual market, but some persuasive nerd in glasses convinced the guys in black suits that it could. Course if it fails he loses his job, much like what happened to Tanaka.

[Ruisu]

Face the facts, for FFXIV a great amount of the playerbase came from FFXI

FFXIV is not FFXI.

[ProxyFate]

Not trying to serve the majority doesn't mean you can't create a great game.

Paint rocks! :3

Ahh, the free spirit of the youth. I wish i still believed in a world that you want to see. But the world that is, as the others have stated, is about money, that's what a business is and does, try to make more money.

Cute tho how you think