One of the issues with FFXIV...

[Aenarion]

i typed a nice response up, but the browser ate it

but basically, the article is not without merit. Many of the series you mentioned are also favorites of mine, but these days it's hard to argue that many of them are little more than niche franchise outside of Japan.

It's not so much a matter of who's better, but rather that of a diverging market IMO.

[Konachibi]

i typed a nice response up, but the browser ate it

but basically, the article is not without merit. Many of the series you mentioned are also favorites of mine, but these days it's hard to argue that many of them are little more than niche franchise outside of Japan.

It's not so much a matter of who's better, but rather that of a diverging market IMO.

True enough, the majority of western gamers nowadays all just want to play war games where they get to run around and kill each other. The market for adventure games and games where you don't have to shoot someone in the face is slowly dieing out