Power-leveling is absolutely BROKEN

[Betelgeuzah]

Tell me how you think this game will all of a sudden be successful?

By becoming an actually good game. It's not going to become one "all of a sudden" though.

While simultaneously, having the brand name and the company to carry it farther than any other MMO could.

All they basically need to do is, with the release of versus XIII in 2013, include a free trial version of XIV and just like that you have reached out to millions of PS3 users who hadn't given the game a try before. It may be costly (and perhaps unnecessary), but it is effective.

When you essentially have the game in front of you (that is actually a good), which you got pretty much as a free gift along with the product you were going to buy anyway, yeah, I don't think the threshold to give it a try is going to be that huge. Retail revenue is not going to be the source of profit in this case anyway.

But still, it all comes down to the game being actually a good product at the time. That's all it takes.