Quote Originally Posted by Murugan View Post
SE getting more $$$$$$$$$$$$$ does not = me caring if they are designing a crap casual focused game I don't want to play.

I don't invest money in Square Enix, I did invest money in EA because of STWOR, but I never planned to play it myself (and I am in the beta). I know that what I want isn't in line with what the "unwashed masses" desire from a video game, I take pride in that actually because I have confidence in my taste. So I can recognize that a casual cash shop game is going to make a ton of money, but there is no way in hell you would get me personally to waste my time on such a travesty.

I don't care how many people play, I don't care if this game improves SE's bottom line. I only care that there are people on my server I can play with (which means not casual/solo trash running around contributing nothing to my experience but lag), and that I have content to play. FFXI managed this just fine for many years. WoW on the other hand made tons of money, has millions of players, and I really don't care because it completely excluded anyone who desires complex MMO mechanics and has turned their server communities into cesspits. It could sell another 20 million copies I wouldn't waste 5 minutes playing it.

Luckily since Yoshi took over they are catering to "hardcores" again (making them the only major MMO developer to do so in the past 5 years).
You may seem to not care about casual play but if SE only cater to the hardcore that means they won't have an enough player base to help fund FF14

BUSINESSES WORK FOR MONEY
MONEY=DEVELOPMENT FOR FF14