XIV is Not Being Remade for You/Us

[Evangela]

another stupid herp derp response ffXI was ruined with abyssia the FFXI i liked ( and most other ppl) is gone

that's your problem

FFXIV was not planned to made for FFXI market only from the beginning, It's not your (XI players) game, It's our game. XIV will not be a replacement for your XI

[Xatsh]

If SE truly makes a game for everyone, no dev has done this yet. I will be really happy.

The more players the better, as long as a casual playstyle is not forced on me. Meaning there is hardcore stuff for me to do. The game will succeed and will be happy playing it.

If they want to succeed. They cannot only target the FFXI market but they also cannot only target the mainstream market. Target only the FFXI playerbase you will be left with a small loyal playerbase, make only a mainstream game you will lose your whole dedicated playerbase and be left with a volital one which could jump ship at anytime.

A game needs both elements hardcore and casual. You can't make only 1 type of content and say it is for everyone. Yoshida with some of his comments hint at him getting this... I hope he follows through on it.

[danny52844]

that's your problem

FFXIV was not planned to made for FFXI market only from the beginning, It's not your (XI players) game, It's our game. don't try to make XIV to be a replacement for your XI

another stupid comment i was talkikng about u saying go back to 11 when its not the game we like any more so just dont say that its a stupid arguement

[Evangela]

in that case why don't you go back to XI forums and start a topic there?

[Wynn]

in that case why don't you go back to XI forums and start a topic there?

Because the people over there would tell him to STFU too

[Jaide]

that's your problem

FFXIV was not planned to made for FFXI market only from the beginning, It's not your (XI players) game, It's our game.

That's the problem. It's fans of FFXI who are most likely to care about this game in the first place. Nobody has a chance of ripping off a significant chunk of WoW's casual market for any extensive period of time. FFXIV's best chance was to appeal to those who enjoyed the first MMO. That doesn't mean they have to clone XI, but going the opposite direction has proven to be a complete disaster.

Appealing to as wide of an audience as possible just involves appealing to the lowest common denominator and, unless you are the lowest common denominator, this only serves to line the pockets of the publisher/developers. If they want to make a quality game, they're better off figuring out who their niche market is (ie, fans of their previous FF mmo - likely the only ones who will care enough to give it a second try) and getting them to come back to the game first.

[SuzakuCMX]

@ OP: what a bunch of coblyn crap.

This remake would prolly never have happend if it werent for the fans
getting upset on how broken & poorly everything was made at the start.

By "you/us" he means the people still here. Not everyone that left because the game was a steaming pile of excrement on release.

[TonyMontana]

Yoshi told me he was remaking FFXIV just for me.

[zaviermhigo]

SE is targeting casuals right now, it may be a good move for money, but all the casuals i know won't even play for this game when it goes p2p. So its all a matter of who they alienate when subscription goes live, all mmos have this problem, everyone plays RIFT with free trial and then go back to w/e they we're playing before. So when the subscription goes live they'll have to cater to different people than those who aren't even going to pay for the fee anyway.

[Evangela]

they already announced so many times that their direction now is to make the game more friendly to the mainstream

so it's useless to discuss anymore. FFXI-2 will not going to happen, get over it, live with it or go back to XI, it's your choices