Gamespot ARR article. HOW DARE YOU DOUBT OUR YOSHI-P!!

[TenraiNagi]

No simple standard MMO has ever been a great success.

You are making a valid point, but wasn't WoW a simple standard MMO when it first came out? It did nothing ground breaking for the genre. It borrowed many of the successful features in other MMOs, mashed them together, and executed them well. After building its pretty solid foundation, the game expanded upon it and started climbing all the way to the throne it sits on now.

Isn't that what FFXIV is doing currently? Yes it is still at the standard MMO level. And a high quality one, probably the highest from all that's out there. Given time after launch, every aspect gets improved and enhanced (more classes/ jobs, story content, new worlds, etc...). Then an MMO truly flourishes to show what it's capable of.

No one can expect the dev team to create an MMO in 2 years only and expect it to be the best of the best in every aspect, and redefining the genre in ways no one ever did (this is where the interviewer seemed ignorant). They wanted to make it to standard MMO level, and they did an excellent job at that.

tl;dr No MMO is a "wow-killer" the second it launches, but with good foundation to build upon, any MMO can become a brilliant game.

[Kallera]

You are making a valid point, but wasn't WoW a simple standard MMO when it first came out? It did nothing ground breaking for the genre. It borrowed many of the successful features in other MMOs, mashed them together, and executed them well. After building its pretty solid foundation, the game expanded upon it and started climbing all the way to the throne it sits on now.

Isn't that what FFXIV is doing currently? Yes it is still at the standard MMO level. And a high quality one, probably the highest from all that's out there. Given time after launch, every aspect gets improved and enhanced (more classes/ jobs, story content, new worlds, etc...). Then an MMO truly flourishes to show what it's capable of.

No one can expect the dev team to create an MMO in 2 years only and expect it to be the best of the best in every aspect, and redefining the genre in ways no one ever did (this is where the interviewer seemed ignorant). They wanted to make it to standard MMO level, and they did an excellent job at that.

tl;dr No MMO is a "wow-killer" the second it launches, but with good foundation to build upon, any MMO can become a brilliant game.

Yeah, though one major difference (And this is more industry related than with the gaming populace) Is that This is the first MMO attempting a ressurection on such a scale. Sure there are attempts to revive favorites done by others (Hellgate being one example off the top of my head) but Most modern MMO simply peter out and go "Free-to-play" in an attempt to wean whatever money is left from a game's audience, an absolutely none of them ever gain the shine of their previous attempt.

SE not only wants to supass 1.0, it wants to succeed in such a manner that its contemporaries (SW:TOR, DC Online, TERA, etc.) had not.