My FC is going back to FFXI... FFXIV FAIL

[Worm]

Its boring, and not creative. Even WOW had more than just numbers. You had trinkets that had a bunch of unique things. Set items bonuses... Sure we 14 has that for GC items, but those are useless, as they only go up to ilvl55 or whatever

Eh honestly? When was the last time trinkets were dynamic? Past ICC they just had secondary stats on them and stacked a primary stat via buff. There literally was only one right choice for the longest time with trinkets AND set bonuses. Either your set bonus was good enough to ignore non-ideal itemization of tier gear or it wasn't, that's all there was to it. I feel like implying WoW had some diversity of ways to gear is really disingenuous, items with the higher ilvl were almost always the right choice.

[BoltNixter]

IMO games are not all about gear. I don't like the raid for gear to wait for raid to gear again "rinse repeat" until expansion comes out to do the same over and over.
What I like is doing lots of questing to unlock a certain area where more story awaits and new lands to be explored. To ME gear is bonus when accomplishing something. (not only beating a boss)
Yes gear in XI took way to long to get and in XIV its way way way to easy. A good balance in between should have been applied.

Its better to have 500k player subbing for 1 year then 1M subbing for 2-3 months.

[Zumi]

Its better to have 500k player subbing for 1 year then 1M subbing for 2-3 months.

Where do you get these numbers from.

[Tazo]

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I can tell you what happens to games that take the MMO approach that FF14 is taking.

[Magis]

Where do you get these numbers from.

Past experience? Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and Rift had huge population numbers and fell to nothing, forcing them to become F2P to payback investors, or in Warhammer's case... close entirely. FFXI sat around 300k to 500k for 10 years and became Square's most profitable product.

[darkstarpoet1]

Past experience? Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and Rift had huge population numbers and fell to nothing, forcing them to become F2P to payback investors, or in Warhammer's case... close entirely. FFXI sat around 300k to 500k for 10 years and became Square's most profitable product.

don't forget tera and the super awesome starwars

[Kazahashi]

Bye. /10char

[ZenAero]

To Rex from Hyperion:

LOL, thanks for the attention. An underlyding motive for this post is to get the attention of the Devs and by you posting and viewing this thread you are helping me accomplish this. Also I would like to note that I have been playing FFXIV since 1.0 Beta and I did play FFXI from NA launch. I am well aware of the pros and cons of both games. Of course I can compare an older game to a newer one that had to "re-launch" and did nothing but reskin shit and give us tweaked older content for the most part. Yoshi has simply modeled this game after a crap load of other games that have failed so yes I will make the assumption that it will fail at this rate.

[Grailer]

Would you all prefer it if the game changed to "Fight X monster, gain 100 out of 200,000 exp for level 15, gain no Gil and no loot, rinse and repeat, try and make money, buy gear that is outrageously priced, have gated content cause there's no more DF and finding a group is basically 'sit in shout chat screaming "LF tank healer DPS for sastasha" and then praying that someone responds in an hour or two before you have to go to school/work/bed."

Yeah, sounds like a blast.

Actually that is how the game is lol

[BoltNixter]

Where do you get these numbers from.

It's more of a "way of saying" then actual numbers.