Anyone Sad about the games Decline

[Yurikitty]

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

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OMG stop already with its a WoW clone. FFXIV is a off shoot of its own game, FFXI, which predated WoW by 3 whole years. Not every game is a WoW clone, and WoW itself is a clone of all the games that came before it. Maybe you are to young to remember, but MMO's have been out for many years now, they didn't start in 2004 with WoW. And say FFXIV is dying all you want, at least this game isn't the F2P crap you see everywhere. Even WoW is F2P now. p.s this is not white knighting. I love this game, but it needs a ton of fixes to make it great.

[Welsper59]

of course this game is gonna decline after two months, just like i predicted, this game is only gonna last two full months and then people are are gonna remain offline till their remaining subscription ends, at a much faster rate then people buying the game.

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

This game is gonna be just fine for a long while. What exactly is the measure of success for people? Having reached 11 million subs? Yeah, whatever. The games success had significantly surpassed expectations from launch, so realistically speaking, I'm pretty sure the remaining players for the next year or two will be more than enough (this is including inevitable increase/decrease of subs).

When new patches release, we'll see an increase of subs/players... then after a month or two, it'll drop again. It ALWAYS happens, even in WoW. That game reached where it did because it came out at a time when the market was becoming accessible by more people, and as a result, paved the way in terms of mainstream expectations in the genre (i.e. facerolling). Not to mention, it had a fairly strong backing by WC3 fans (and earlier).

[Hyrist]

Funny. I've logged into a queue on my server several times this week.

I hit a queue pretty much every night during peak hours. It's essentially trolling to call the game on the decline as its subscription base rises. Those who rushed content are feeling the burnout that comes with hitting your head on the content ceiling at full speed without really settling into other parts of the game.


These kind of players typically migrate from title to title and we can expect those to leave at various points due to their gaming habits being in conflict with the genre's typical evolution course. People can acclaim that titles like EverquestNext will be the next major influence, but there's always the risk that it will not appeal to the players who pioneer it.

In the end there will be a few dedicated endgame groups that will settle in and stay here for the long haul. Many of the ones already settled in from 1.0 will likely stick around, as they see the potential in the system provided, and know what it means to be patiently waiting for more to be added.

[Aleksandr]

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OMG stop already with its a WoW clone. FFXIV is a off shoot of its own game, FFXI, which predated WoW by 3 whole years. Not every game is a WoW clone, and WoW itself is a clone of all the games that came before it. Maybe you are to young to remember, but MMO's have been out for many years now, they didn't start in 2004 with WoW. And say FFXIV is dying all you want, at least this game isn't the F2P crap you see everywhere. Even WoW is F2P now. p.s this is not white knighting. I love this game, but it needs a ton of fixes to make it great.

Yoshida saying he wanted the game to be more like WOW makes it a WOW clone. 1.0 was not like XI the goal of 1.0 was not to have it be like XI. These are the choices made by the people at the helm of the game at the time they were/are at the helm. People are right to point out it is a WOW clone because Yoshida's vision was taking a good look at WOW and making a game like that! He did it.

[HiirNoivl]

That's not what he said.

He said that If he had been the producer of 1.0 he would have made his team play current MMOs, giving WoW as an example, so that they understood what things players would need and expect.

He didn't say that he wanted 2.0 to be like WoW.

[Joshhoowah]

~6000 views and 144 replies in ~5 hours to a post that's probably just someone trolling. Even if they're not... who cares about their opinion on the game anyways?

Are we so bored to entertainment!

[Craniux]

what decline...my server is same as usual

[LemmingKingXXX]

Rokien was more effective because his views were more "extremely conservative" rather than "antagonistic".

[KiriA500]

of course this game is gonna decline after two months, just like i predicted, this game is only gonna last two full months and then people are are gonna remain offline till their remaining subscription ends, at a much faster rate then people buying the game.

such is the fate of all WoWclones.

I never understood statements like this.

"BLAH BLAH I PREDICT THIS GAME WILL DO BAD BLAH BLAH." Remind us all why you're here then.

[Lstkaws]

Rokien was more effective because his views were more "extremely conservative" rather than "antagonistic".

NEVER thought I would say this but I want Rokien back. He was way better than what we have to deal with now. Sure he was kind of the village **iot, but he was our **iot. Now we have to deal with WoW's castoffs.