Give ff14 a single player mode?

[Teknoman]

I'm sorry but if this game is "doing fine as an MMO" then SE would be charging people for it to make a profit.

This game is regarded as one of the biggest failures of an MMO
This game -still- isn't making profit in -any- way
This game has -nothing- unique and nothing unique planned for the future
Thus: This game is not competitive with other MMOs.

This game is simply a glorified pretty grind fest. There is no engaging story (trust me, i've done every sidequest, over half the class-quests, the entire mission, and written out a lore guide for nearly all the open-world lore in the game and the game has less substance than most free MMOs. I was a Gamesage on hello kitty online and it honestly had more lore than this game.... which is sad), the dungeons are bland when you compare them to the instances coming out in SW: TOR which have choices that change the instance as well as voices. Leveling is literally just clicking mobs with no strategy.

Currently the new patch might be late.
The patch after that with jobs will prob not be till december.
And it will prob take 2-4 months or longer to balance out the jobs (since it took a year just to balance them into the game)

So how is this game doing good?

Not to sound like a defender, but they are pretty much reworking everything from scratch while we're still playing.

[Azurymber]

Not to sound like a defender, but they are pretty much reworking everything from scratch while we're still playing.

even if they made the game perfect, relaunching a dead game which has 5.0 average reviews on almost every site is near impossible. People interested in it will google it and the old reviews will come up first. And meta reviews will be low, etc.

The only way for the game to ever succeed is either a HUGE marketing campaign which costs millions, or bringing something totally unique and new that no other MMO has.

[Medura]

even if they made the game perfect, relaunching a dead game which has 5.0 average reviews on almost every site is near impossible. People interested in it will google it and the old reviews will come up first. And meta reviews will be low, etc.

The only way for the game to ever succeed is either a HUGE marketing campaign which costs millions, or bringing something totally unique and new that no other MMO has.

"We will bring you something so new and unique you never have heard of it before! From the times of mmorpg, we take away the mmo part. We give you a completely new genre! We call it: RPG!"

Yeah sure, new and unique. Always fun to see a troll get trolled around xD

[Azurymber]

"We will bring you something so new and unique you never have heard of it before! From the times of mmorpg, we take away the mmo part. We give you a completely new genre! We call it: RPG!"

Yeah sure, new and unique. Always fun to see a troll get trolled around xD

no mmorpg out there has the option to play part of it like a single player rpg really. So it would be unique. I'm not arguing to make the entire game single player. I'm arguing for a single option to level 1 job via an in-depth single player story with instanced zones.

How can you argue thats a bad thing? In marketing terms it's called multi-branding. Every corporation does it. Coke has multiple drinks? why? because diff people like diff drinks. So why shouldn't a MMO have a different option that attracts a totally different set of people.

Are you saying if they released a single player FFXIV mode no one would buy the game even though theres 100,000s of people who buy every new single player ff?

Not everyone has time for mmo grinding. So creating a way to level up in a -fun- manner would attract all those people. They could play at their own pace. This would increase the general population, increase profits, allow SE to hire more ppl and produce content faster, and make FFXIV better for everyone.

[Zenaku]

even if they made the game perfect, relaunching a dead game which has 5.0 average reviews on almost every site is near impossible. People interested in it will google it and the old reviews will come up first. And meta reviews will be low, etc.

The only way for the game to ever succeed is either a HUGE marketing campaign which costs millions, or bringing something totally unique and new that no other MMO has.

If you think that why don't you go right now log in delete your account then never come back to the forums? The ps3 is there 2# chance at making a 7.0 - 9 score. Btw most of the score for games are pay by the company look at IGN most of there score for good games are 5 and for bad games are 7.0+ lol so if people really follow scores then they should not play games then. How many time did i went to see a movie and people give it a bad score? and it was great? and big % thought that also?

Even if FFXIV fails to bring wow players who the hell cares? the game is final fantasy only final fantasy players going to play this to it dies anyways so if it have 1-2 or 4mil players it would be doing 100x better then FFXI did in 5years.

People need to stop looking at dam scores and stars to make up there minds if they should play a game or not.