Who is really optimistic about this game?

[UmJammerSully]

I'm optimistic-ish, thanks to 2.0. A lot of the stuff shown looks really exciting but I've learnt to be cautious with my optimism this time due to how bad badly they missed my expectations the first time around.

That being said, I'm confident that 2.0 will be a noticeable step-up from what we had before and we have got now.

[Betelgeuzah]

If you aren't at all optimistic, what are you doing here?

[Orcishgrappler]

with caution yes. I want more than anything for this game to be great someday. I think we all do even people that post on here with negitive posts still want the game to make it.

[ChiefCurrahee]

I've been a part of XIV since closed alpha. I took a break from Feb 2011 - July 2011. I peaked in from time to time with each new update. It was patch 1.18 that really brought me back to XIV for good. It was the first real update of the players polls, the promises and the "hype" of the rewrite. patches 1.19 and 1.20 have tempered my faith that this team will turn XIV around.

I'm looking forward to Ver 2.0. but I'm also looking forward to the updates we'll get for ver 1.x while we wait for October to roll around so we can get our first taste of ver 2.0

[kanjitai]

I wanted to clarify something since it seems I'm my posts go from one extreme to the other. I was disappointed with this game. There's no nice way to say it but it flopped. I can see the potential in it and that's why I'm still around. I just want SE to give us some content.

I don't want to pay for a year before 2.0 and get nothing but basic tweaks to the game. Tweaks that should have been there from the beginning. I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way. At least I hope I'm not.

[Betelgeuzah]

If you are here solely based on potential it shouldn't matter what happens before 2.0 as the game isn't good enough for you to begin with, with or without a fee.

The whole concept of paying- no, playing a game only for it's potential sometime in the distant future is insanity. You either like the game yet deny it and that's why you play or you don't. And if you don't play any stance you are taking, any cause you are fighting for is completely lost. You are essentially fighting someone else's fight, taking a stance that the service should be free for those that SE owes nothing and hold no silly grudges over what should or shouldn't have been in the past. Meanwhile your own role in all of this is to be a bystander that all of this has no effect on, and even worse, an entitled one at that.

[Dragon]

[OP post snip]

I suppose I'm cautiously optimistic.

[Teakwood]

Me, me! Although to be fair it was extremely cautious, measured optimism before 1.19 came out and the plans for 2.0 released. 1.20 has just cemented this optimism further; I can't wait to play up until 2.0 comes out, even with the game's problems being what they are.

[Babydoll]

I enjoy the game now...and hopefully will enjoy it 2.0 and beyond.

[Bowen]

Can't really tell but are you being sarcastic? I kinda got that feeling while reading the OP. . . >_>;