I wouldn't mind FFXIV becoming a WoW clone in the casual/hardcore appeal if...

[fusional]

While I personally think Rift is terrible, it certainly didn't flop. SOme people are just delusional and think 1 mil+ subs is normal for an MMO.

Most MMOs are closer to 100k.

Well planned MMOs can survive with 50k.

The only things required to keep an MMO in business is earning more money than it costs to make and maintain.

once again, if you market yourself as a WoW-killer and you don't even make a *scratch* on their market, you failed. period. bottom line. the end.

at this point i'd say you're only looking for new bandwagons to hop on in this thread because you're still upset.

[Kiote]

once again, if you market yourself as a WoW-killer and you don't even make a *scratch* on their market, you failed. period. bottom line. the end.

at this point i'd say you're only looking for new bandwagons to hop on in this thread because you're still upset.

No body markets them self as a WoW-Killer. People like you claim that games are going to be WoW-Killers and then bash them when they don't hit multiple millions of subs.

[fusional]

No body markets them self as a WoW-Killer. People like you claim that games are going to be WoW-Killers and then bash them when they don't hit multiple millions of subs.

(still taken from an ad they were running on curse client for almost a year. curse client is a popular addon client used primarily by WoW players. weird they'd target that, right?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLtxJDpogk

oops? and i'm too lazy to go hunt down the interviews with rift devs comparing themselves directly to WoW by name. which is amusingly the same mistake swtor made. why would you even do that? why would you directly compare yourself to the sleeping giant?

so, yes. if that's your marketing tactic and you lose over half your 600k subs in 2 months- you failed.

"people like you" claim people like me claim whatever without having anything to back up your stupid, baseless arguments with. so oops again.



edit: found one of many-
http://www.videogamer.com/news/rift_...in_subs_2.html

foot in mouth, anyone?