Press and player reactions to the new XIV

[Spy]

IF it's ANY consolation AT ALL, my cousin came over to stay a few days at my place. She has NEVER before played this game! And she has never played a FF title or mmo (Though she has played Runescape o.O...and hated it >.>). I said, "Hey! Wanna give FFXIV a shot?" she said, "I guess.."

So I made one of my characters inactive, and purchased another character slot and let her create a character on my account.

Anyway, I let her play and she couldn't stop. She asked me all sorts of questions along the lines of, 'Will her pc run it?' 'If not, does she need an adaptor for her ps3' (She never really took her ps3 online...but remembers me having to have to buy an adapter for FFXI), 'How much is it?', etc etc. She said when she gets a job, she'd love to get the game herself.

She is not a FF Fangirl.
She was not here for FFXIV's 1st release.
She never played it before.
And yet she loved it.

PRE-2.0 and she loved it.

So what does that tell you?

[SuzakuCMX]

She is not a FF Fangirl.
She was not here for FFXIV's 1st release.
She never played it before.
And yet she loved it.

PRE-2.0 and she loved it.

So what does that tell you?

Easily appeased.

FFXIV is no longer a bad game. But it's still not quite up to standard in terms of accessibility/new-user-friendliness/ohgodwhatthehellisthislag

[Riv]

IF it's ANY consolation AT ALL, my cousin came over to stay a few days at my place. She has NEVER before played this game! And she has never played a FF title or mmo (Though she has played Runescape o.O...and hated it >.>). I said, "Hey! Wanna give FFXIV a shot?" she said, "I guess.."

So I made one of my characters inactive, and purchased another character slot and let her create a character on my account.

Anyway, I let her play and she couldn't stop. She asked me all sorts of questions along the lines of, 'Will her pc run it?' 'If not, does she need an adaptor for her ps3' (She never really took her ps3 online...but remembers me having to have to buy an adapter for FFXI), 'How much is it?', etc etc. She said when she gets a job, she'd love to get the game herself.

She is not a FF Fangirl.
She was not here for FFXIV's 1st release.
She never played it before.
And yet she loved it.

PRE-2.0 and she loved it.

So what does that tell you?

Is she hot?