Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
I've played through the rise and fall of dozens of MMOs. Doomsaying posts are something of a cliche, I know, but when the ENTIRE forum AND reddit are flooded with absolutely nothing but outrage over a single issue that's usually a sign the game is on the brink.
I've been on this forum for 4 1/2 years now, and many years in other MMOs forums before that. On every single patch day in every single MMO, there has been an outrage about some of the changes/additions and people freaking out calling it the beginningof the end (or the literal end) until they had completely forgotten about how they were up in arms a week later, usually after they actually played around with that feature for a while
So I wouldn't write off FFXIV just yet.
I completely agree on the first part of your comment though; and the thing that DOES worry me are the complaints that stick around. Not something like the general patchday panic (which I despise, that's why I made this thread in the first place xD but I know it's jsut the natural course of things) but concerns that stay vocal over a long amount of time, like the content drought...which IS something that could be avoided with adequate funding. More staff would also mean more creative ideas, and I don't think MMOs suffer from any of that (unless they go overboard, like Tanaka did with 1.0 )