Moment of Truth: How do you really feel

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1. How do you feel about the patch frequency?
2. How do you feel about the changes themselves?
3. How do you feel this game will fair against current upcoming titles?
4. Do you think this game will ever exceed niche popularity?
5. Do you think the changes are in the right or wrong direction?
6. Do you think the they have focused on the most important things historically with patches or should the focus have been elsewhere?

First off OP, it's obvious what your answers are, or you wouldn't ask these questions.

For myself:

1. It depends on what you mean by patch frequency. Obviously in this game, the patches need to come out as quickly as they can, because the game is pretty much being re-written. However, I wouldn't want anything released before it was ready, plus I think it would go much worse for them if they did so. The last thing this game needs is fodder for the trolls that gives them a leg to stand on.

If you refer to patches to a game that already has a good foundation, of course I like to have more content, but I hate it when patches are too much, too often. Rift changes every week it seems like, and I'm tired of trying to keep up with it. I've come to realize, I like this game because it it's not changing so often. I am glad I can log on and not find everything, especially to do with my character and abilities, changed every week. On top of that, content that has been worked on more, by definition, should be better content. I look for quality from Final Fantasy, not quantity. The patch rate is fine, maybe could be a tad faster once the fundamentals are done.

2. I haven't been personally happy with all of the changes, and I'm especially not happy with PvP on the horizon. But I do hope they will be able to do what I haven't seen any other mmo do, and keep PvP from killing the PvE. It's worth sticking around to find out, as there have been quite a few changes I have liked. Overall, I think the changes are good ones in the grand scheme of things, even if I personally don't care for some of them myself.

3. If they play their cards right, I think this game has just as good a chance as any, if not more.

4. I think some might underestimate, or maybe have forgotten, just how big that "niche" market may be. FFXIV was highly anticipated at launch. I have seen posts scattered over many forums, blogs, etc. , of people that might be willing to pick up the game they bought and give it another shot, once the word is given that it's fixed. There are a ton of people who like and/or have played FF. If even a fraction of those people will come play it, FFXIV will be very successful. They wouldn't even need to step out of their "niche", although previously non-FF players are certainly welcome.

5. I think Yoshi-P has a direction in mind, but I haven't seen enough of it to know if it's right or wrong for me. So far, however, I see no reason to think it's gone in any wrong direction that will continue to make it unpopular.

6. They have first focused on exactly what was voted on by the players, and filled in the inbetween time with whatever they could get done. No matter what they worked on first, I guarantee this exact same question (interrogation) would have been brought up.