Would you be upset if the game went offline?

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

That would only mean I'm right though, so they better don't.

About the "not touching anything SE", I guess I should have said "nothing SE on the PC". I don't know how they fared with other PC games, but seeing how they handle FFXIV (and from what I heard, FFXI in it's early stages), I surely won't touch any MMO SE might release.

I've been here since Alpha too. Back in those days (almost) everyone still believed this game would succeed... and people were exploring everything together, with servers actually being alive and people talking. I miss that.

Ah, the good old days of "well this is just an alpha/beta, they're just holding back for the beta/release." How innocent we were in those halcyon days!

[Zanfire]

nope, id actually rather they take them off until they got most of the stuff done. Aside from some free testing, all its really doing is costing them money to keep them on and having people, including the people that like the game, get bored faster because there isnt much content there and they still are fixing so much else they dont have enough time to pump out constant content.

That and people find more to be mad about and later post it in the forums (or post about their bordum) id rather wait and jump into the game 6 months later with tons of changes and loads of new content, then blast through the tiny amounts we have now....that and the devs wont have to shove out new half a$$ed content just to keep people happy....which in turn pisses more people off because its not well developed.

so yes im all for turning the game off for a while. Not sure why they havent. Give me the free play time when the games worth spending time on.

[Andrien]

I'll go in rage mode if it does.

[Zanfire]

I'll go in rage mode if it does.

wow, so informative.... How can i argue such a well though out and logical response.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

wow, so informative.... How can i argue such a well though out and logical response.

Call for help and wait for him to reset?

[Zanfire]

Call for help and wait for him to reset?

lol .....ah i miss FFXI now....damn you...

[Amsai]

They should have swallowed their pride and shut down the servers almost immediately. Now with people having earned so much in the game already, it limits their options and makes them have to dance around issues so as not to harm the existing player base.

Yes, I would be perfectly fine with them shutting down servers until they have things right. ...........but I don't see it happenig.

[Jibe]

Shut em down.

[Punxsutawney]

Wouldn't be mad , but it would serve absolutely no purpose to take it offline to fix. They have test servers for that. The one thing that would get better from taking it offline, is that they wouldn't have to see the complaining every time they patch.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

I'm starting to think maybe they already intend to. I just saw this bit of news from last month:

Square Enix is readying a new large scale Massively Multiplayer Online title to be announced some time this fiscal year. CEO Yoichi Wada made brief mention of this new game during a May 13 earnings briefing. A full transcript of the briefing was posted today at the company's IR page.

According to Wada, Square Enix hopes aims to operate two to three large scale MMO titles simultaneously, a target it feels will allow it to have stable cash flow.

Maybe they'll give everyone the option of either staying on FFXIV or exchanging their FFXIV account for a free pass to one or both of the new MMOs they're working on. Then they'll just consolidate FFXIV servers for the people who chose to stay.

/optimism