Current State of the Game

[Dyvid]

I'm glad to see a good discussion. Some points I want to touch on:

1.) I don't care how many millions of boxes you sold. How many still play? I have a FC member list of 100ish people. 50 Haven't logged on for over 60 days and I don't expect to see them again. 40 Log on to Myth Cap, Coil, Primal Weapon and then we don't see them WED - SUN and likely won't re-sub. About 10 people actually log on and play the game day to day... or log on to chat about how there's nothing to do. If the 10% that actually play are unhappy... where will this leave the game in the future?

2.) If we wanted to play WoW we wouldn't have purchased Final Fantasy. No need to compare the 2. There are things we love about the FF series and we loved about XI online that drove us to this game. We're not asking for a copy of other games we choose not to play.

1) 1.8 million players
2) Lost all cool points because of the un specified use of "WoW Clone" to justify your argument. FFXI had the same mechanic as weekly caps and purchase of end game gear through tokens.

FYI: most people came to FFXIV in 2010 because we liked FFXI but wanted something more modern without the old school time sinks = challenge approach.