Quote Originally Posted by Tazo View Post
Lol I'm not mad or upset, I know what I signed up for playing a game with vertical progression. You missed the point of a humorous suggestion and you are the one that is obviously upset. I think you got your shit pushed in by the hardcores one too many times, and on behalf of the hardcores, I apologize.
My problem is not so much with the players, though they certainly have a share of the blame, but with the genre and the gaming industry as a whole. I really, really enjoy these games. There aren't many multiplayer games anywhere nearly as social as an MMO like XIV.

But the genre is dying. It's dying and being taken over by the zombie free-to-play infection.

XIV is one of the very last, very few subscription-only online RPGs without a cash shop. Even WoW has a cash shop now. Everyone has one. Every MMO is slowly becoming a Credit Card Arms Race. This is one of the two left (the other being FFXI) that isn't like that. I don't want to see it die, and what ya'll want will kill it dead. If XIV started trending towards FFXI logistically, most of the casual players would leave, and with most of the money gone, Square-Enix would have to either go free-to-play, thus joining the zombies, or shut down entirely.

I don't really want that to happen. I don't want to write off the entire genre, but if there are no subscription options left...