Anyone Else Feel Betrayed?

[Kyri]

Thank you OP you pretty much summed up my feelings exactly. (Though I am tempted to go back to xi if I could afford both subs because I was really enjoying seekers expansion when I was waiting for ARR to start)

Also to anyone saying they were "Betrayed" get over yourself. You are one person in a sea of millions of players. No one cares about your entitlements.

Funny thing, you too are one person in a sea of a million players who think -you- know what the majority of the player base wants. Both sides have good arguments. I don't actually stand with either. Im not happy but im not unhappy enough to quit either. I don't think that my personal opinion is that of the majority however and nor should you.

All these forums are a cesspool of players whining and complaining that the game isn't what they wanted.

Fixed for you because lets face it, its not -just- legacy complaining and when there's a awful lot of complaining going on, mayybbbee just mayybbeee something isn't right... Made more noticeable by just logging in every day and looking at how empty citys are(But kyri! they are out exploring!) Exploring what..?
Look at your FC list, unless yours is the type to kick people offline for more then two weeks your gonna notice there's a lot of people not logging in any more and a lot more "deleted" being removed from your ls' lists.

Like I said I like this game and I have points im not happy with. I don't have the underlying OMGINEEDTOLOGON feel I had in XI no, but I enjoy my time most of the time. However if it aint broken don't fix it normally applies there is broken and duct taped cracks around the problems so yes, certain things should be addressed and looked into, white knight or not.

On a second note the whole "They did a census and this is what you wanted so deal" argument: 1. I havent seen a poll for a very very long time in which a lot of the things in it were pretty 50/50 and the game makers made the choice. 2. People complaining about these things during beta were told to shut up its beta and look where its lead? The problems are still there. So telling people not to complain is indeed counter productive unless it's some rage head who has no point then to bitch. The Op brings up valid concerns and worries and didn't say "OMGTHISSUCKSIQUIT" so try not to sound like the no brained "OMGLEAVEWEHATEYOUWOWPLAYER!" it isn't helping you.


Snipping this from another thread because its true and I also agree to it:

I think the fact that we have like 5 of these threads on the front page at any given time (and that outside these forums, most of the discussion of this game is negative) speaks volumes about the shaky foundation FFXIV is sitting on.

Even if the people complaining ARE a minority (for the time being), they're typically the same people who paid for FFXI for nearly a decade. It's generally not a good idea to piss off your loyal customers who have proven to be a reliable source of income in favor of a fickle-minded mainstream crowd who generally jump from one flavor-of-the-month to the next.

What are SE going to be left with when those customers hop on the next shiny new MMO to come out (the same way they hop on the next shiny piece of gear and forget about the last one)? The older players who they've now lost the confidence of.

SE made the decision to try and grab 2 million subs for a year or two at best, instead of 3-500 thousand for a decade. Bad business move, but investors and stockholders are completely blind to long term sustainability and only want to see immediate gratification and returns, just like the customers they're pandering to.