dev1031 You are losing your main playerbase by making things too easy/fast/casual

[Kilta_Firelotus]

ffxi was a nich game
it is also gowing through a sercond server merge.
WoW is open for everyone
it never had a marge even if it looses 1/2 the players it the sub count will still be at least 1mil.

I much rather ffxiv become popular. We need subs so people do not have to wait hours for a party. Or to find people to do missions, or find people to form a Linkshell.
ffxi was all about waiting long hours to even get players. Sure they cam form a party, if there were actual players to form a group with, who had the jobs you needed.

sorry my vote is for a fun popular game.
not a kinda boring nich ga,e where even with a long play time I still couldn't do much.

[Technyze]

Square enix trying to make a western MMO = an abomination of all styles of MMOs. Stick with what you know build on your originality of FFXI. If dungeons don't have an interesting dynamic to them like Salvage/Dynamis/Nyzul Isle etc etc.... and is instead a single path of trash mobs until you get to each boss, im uninstalling.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

@ sol and rai
that is true i was following ffxiv for a while, and I was happy it was going to be a and these are tanaka words "a less time consuming game"
I have time to play ffxi but even I agree some events took to long to get through. Dynamis comes to mind. fun event anyone had acess to it. But the runs were long. When i did dynamis my LS i was in for a mnth was 11pm gather and the run would end about 1-2am. I was pretty mucg falling asleep. My exb/f who played ffxi, has a full time job but always played ffxi when he got home till he went to bed. And due to a sleeping issue he couldn't do dynamis like he wanted to. : / He was lucky to do a few runs but due to his work and needing a sleep sced. he could do alot of ffxi content. And he wasn't what you call a casual player. He started ffxi in pc launch, ran his own LS (that was huge) and help anyone and everyone. He was well liked on oyr server also, it seemed EVEREYONE knew him.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Square enix trying to make a western MMO = an abomination of all styles of MMOs. Stick with what you know build on your originality of FFXI. If dungeons don't have an interesting dynamic to them like Salvage/Dynamis/Nyzul Isle etc etc.... and is instead a single path of trash mobs until you get to each boss, im uninstalling.

you know that isn't true, kindly stop with this silly attcks its getting old now.
And fyi, dynamis, and just about every rpg including ff games and dungeons set up like that. A single path thing filled with trash mobs till you get to the final boss.
You can dress it up with stuff like nyzul isle but it still basically the same.

[Moth]

@ sol and rai
that is true i was following ffxiv for a while, and I was happy it was going to be a and these are tanaka words "a less time consuming game"
I have time to play ffxi but even I agree some events took to long to get through. Dynamis comes to mind. fun event anyone had acess to it. But the runs were long. When i did dynamis my LS i was in for a mnth was 11pm gather and the run would end about 1-2am. I was pretty mucg falling asleep. My exb/f who played ffxi, has a full time job but always played ffxi when he got home till he went to bed. And due to a sleeping issue he couldn't do dynamis like he wanted to. : / He was lucky to do a few runs but due to his work and needing a sleep sced. he could do alot of ffxi content. And he wasn't what you call a casual player. He started ffxi in pc launch, ran his own LS (that was huge) and help anyone and everyone. He was well liked on oyr server also, it seemed EVEREYONE knew him.

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There were a lot of 'hardcore' players who loved ffxi. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean everyone did. Please stop with your sob story. These forums are the worst thing that happened to this game.. honestly.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

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There were a lot of 'hardcore' players who loved ffxi. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean everyone did. Please stop with your sob story. These forums are the worst thing that happened to this game.. honestly.

its not a sob story.... you "hardcore" are asking for stuff for your play time. I'm under that same if not more play time flag. And there just not enough players to do the content with.
that was the truth.

[Kallera]

I'm a hardcore player who played ffxi

I stopped because I didn't have the time or interest to slave for millions of gil.

Ffxiv is a welcome change for me. I have no interest in seeing it become another ffxi. I want to be part of a community, not simply a bunch of railroaders to cap. If you can't find enough in the game for you after leveling multiple jobs, maybe its not your game, so much as your gameplay.

There's a world out there, you know. The game is designed to be more than just end game activities. Take it in, man!

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I'm a hardcore player who played ffxi

I stopped because I didn't have the time or interest to slave for millions of gil.

Ffxiv is a welcome change for me. I have no interest in seeing it become another ffxi. I want to be part of a community, not simply a bunch of railroaders to cap. If you can't find enough in the game for you after leveling multiple jobs, maybe its not your game, so much as your gameplay.

There's a world out there, you know. The game is designed to be more than just end game activities. Take it in, man!

i agree pretty much as I'm the same. minus I didn't quit ffxi yet.

[Duelle]

Oh I LOVE the fact they added 20 low level NMs with gear drops for low levels, I hate the fact they're 3-5 min respawns with decent drop rates, meaning the content won't last long at all.

What it means is that there's no repeats of Leaping Lizzie where half the people in the zone where /anon campers that were basically looking to outclaim each other for prolonged amounts of time because of the crappy drop rate on the leaping boots. I cannot fathom why anyone would want to return to days like that.

Going to the hardcore thing, I think of stuff like this whenever hardcore is brought up. And I agree, Everquest is up there and a large contributor to FFXI's design philosophy.

[Chezen]

Warcraft loses players every single time a "Wow killer" releases, then 2-3 months later, they reclaim those lost players plus some more, it's been that way since release, if you really really think cata lost blizzard customers, then you don't know wtf you are talking about, i play wow, i'm not playing right now, but i'm still paying them $14.99 a M.O. And the nerfs, are not really nerfs, is just that people dont know wtf they are talking about

You cannot prove this anymore than I can prove they did lose customers. I only know what I observe. I can assure you, they have not reclaimed me. I also never refered to a "WoW killer". I refered to Cata itself.

But that's not really the point of my statement. My point is all of the flack people throw around. There is no reason to have "sides". There's no reason to fight and bicker with each other, especially so much that it completely ruins a game for everybody.

Edit: What I would really like to see, is everyone working together to give feedback that help the devs make a game everyone can enjoy.