How can FFXIV succeed?

[Luhy]

As much as all of the threads about technical issues and inventory problems are important, they're not going to decide whether FFXIV lives or dies. SE will be looking to these forums from time to time to see what our concerns are. This thread is basically for us to decide what is most important in this game succeeding, whether that means keeping bored people from quitting, attracting new players and so on.

All of that being said, I'll start with my impressions. I've always loved Final Fantasy games and I've always bought and played each one many times. In FFXIV, I am now at the point where I just don't want to log in any more. The prospect of smacking slightly larger doblyns another 1,000,000 times just makes me feel very alone.

• For a while now, I've been saying that the release of "Hamlet Defense" could turn things around. I imagined it to be similar to Beseiged or Campaign with an NPC able to teleport us to the location when a conflict was soon to begin. Hopefully side-quest NPCs will offer us such teleports one day, instead of items we don't want.
  
• That's another thing- I feel as if side-quests could have been successful simply by giving us re-colored or re-skinned Unique versions of items like goggles or coatees. People don't even need gear with Stamina increases or anything yet, just new colors or designs at different ranks would make people happy.
  
• Another topic would be content. Of course, they must be working on chocobos, Ishgard and the colusseum in Ul'dah. The colosseum could be similar to the FF7 Gold Saucer colusseum where items or points are earned in exchange for medicide/prizes/SP/XP. I've also been hoping for PvE content where we could enter the infamous "Necrologos" and perhaps work towards the new Job-specific-equipment we've been teased with. Maybe then, our time spent in the Necrologos could affect the monsters we see in Battlecraft Levequests. That could help keep things from getting too stale.

[Vassteel1]

i hope 2.0 does well i dont think i can survive another failure

[Kagato]

It'll succeed because Yoshi-P said so.

Now stop questioning success and move on with playing the game.

[Xodus84]

Yoshi-P is my lord and savior

[Risae]

It's going to be a WoW clone, of course its going to succeed.

[Anima]

Why is this guy all over the Old-threads Necro'ing all of them 0.0...

EDITED so It doesn't sound as rude as I thought It wouldn't be I was just curious

[Aminore]

every mmo has hit or miss content. i think the miss was hamlet defense. i dont like it at all but its a good way of bring jobs together. they really need to improve that. so far the biggest hit is skrimish. they can easly add more zones and more drops with this mode even thou it feels like a dumbed down FFXI assault battle i love it

[Yellow]

Why the f is this guy called Vasssteel all over the Old-threads Necro'ing all of them...

I guess that's what we get for people using the forum search feature?


I think a good idea would be including large zone combat that automatically includes everyone in the area fighting it (don't need to party for it).

They'll just need some mechanics to figure out who gets the rewards though (can't have people afking and getting rewards!)

Also the title of this thread is slightly misleading.. if you change it you might attract more people xD !!


-- Side note: Are we going to see Ishgard before 2.0 ?? o_o I remember reading somewhere that it was going to open up before 2.0?

;_;

[Anima]

I guess that's what we get for people using the forum search feature?


I think a good idea would be including large zone combat that automatically includes everyone in the area fighting it (don't need to party for it).

They'll just need some mechanics to figure out who gets the rewards though (can't have people afking and getting rewards!)

Also the title of this thread is slightly misleading.. if you change it you might attract more people xD !!


-- Side note: Are we going to see Ishgard before 2.0 ?? o_o I remember reading somewhere that it was going to open up before 2.0?

;_;

Still doesn't stop people from making new threads 0.0 On a serious note, I don't really know If Necro'ing is bad or not, just that it seems to be done purposely on multi-dead threads, most of the answers are very obvious and has been mentioned in various threads 0.0 Like the "Mailbox" thing, but I won't comment anything on it anymore I dunno If this is Intentional or purely thought out reply.

In reply to your question, I think what they mentioned was "Ishgard after 2.0" which IMO, is most likely what is gonna happen. Ishgard is not destroyed, LOC team answered that It's just a translation misunderstanding, It's best pictured as "Destroyed Ishgardian Fortress" which is not the Ishgard city. (At least that's what I know / think) 0.0

[Verytus]

Hello,

Thank you all for your posts. Unfortunately it seems this thread has run its course, so we are locking it. While we encourage using existing threads to discuss topics relevant to FFXIV, some topics which have become too old or are no longer relevant may be better left where they are, rather than bringing an old thread back to life.

-Verytus