Be brave

[Akira_Tenshi]

Well if they wanted mass appeal and 20 million players like WoW they shouldn't have made the system requirements so high. I think thats a big part of WoW's success, you can run it on your toaster it's not just down to the quality of the game.

FF will have a large audience but MMO's are very competitve and there are lots of them. I think XIV will me the marmite of the MMO world. You will either love it or hate it. It will always get mixed reviews.

[Neptune]

Well if they wanted mass appeal and 20 million players like WoW they shouldn't have made the system requirements so high. I think thats a big part of WoW's success, you can run it on your toaster it's not just down to the quality of the game.

FF will have a large audience but MMO's are very competitve and there are lots of them. I think XIV will me the marmite of the MMO world. You will either love it or hate it. It will always get mixed reviews.

Excellent point. The system requirements should have been a lot lower. And they could be a lot lower. That, obviously, is one of the things that should be a higher priority. Really, my own view on this matter is that this game should appeal to as many people as possible. Because if it did, it would appeal more strongly to me. And it's easier to spend time on something that has mass appeal. And it's more satisfying, and easier to share with others. I would like the dev team to realize that they alone determine FFXIV's success, and not the market.

[Moth]

Well if they wanted mass appeal and 20 million players like WoW they shouldn't have made the system requirements so high. I think thats a big part of WoW's success, you can run it on your toaster it's not just down to the quality of the game.

FF will have a large audience but MMO's are very competitve and there are lots of them. I think XIV will me the marmite of the MMO world. You will either love it or hate it. It will always get mixed reviews.

This. The system requirements are ridiculous, but they should have expected a limited audience because of it, and I am sure they did expect it. However, with the release on the PS3, hopefully this will change. I know for a fact that when XI was released on the PS2 there were thousands of new players because of the counsel. Hopefully the same will happen with XIV if the team can successfully fix the game.