Three Question Survey

[DPZ2]

1. Yes.

2. Almost one year

3. Why does one have to leave one MMO in order to play another? Well, yes, I unsubscribed from WoW this summer (after playing FFXIV for six months), but I also resubscribed to SWTOR recently, and play other MMOs and, more importantly, other games outside the MMO genre. When the next WoW expansion comes out, I'll resubscribe. The only folks I've known who have to be dedicated to a single MMORPG are high-end raiders.

[whiskeybravo]

I may build a survey site in the future that automatically compiles the data from these to build charts from, and is independent of the forums, but even then, there would be bias.

I had a thought a while back ago but dropped it. If you make a survey monkey or something, you can hang out in PF for that, you'll also need some people on different servers advertising it as well to get a general consensus.

[Alexftw]

1. Sastified with some things and unsastified with many aswell

2. 4 months

3. Runescape, silkroad online, scions of fate, cabal, aion, archeage
(Reached either endgame or played for at least a year in all of these games)
And as for subbing just to one mmo at a time. Some of us don't have a big wallet while we study. Ff14 furthermore costs the double of the usual subscription model. Its just that I've played mmos for arround 12 years and I'm seeing this game make some mistakes which killed some mmos and I've just been here for arround 4 months.

[DPZ2]

Because the people who post on the forum arent actually equally players and customers? i really dont understand this lol. How is the forum community different from the player base when to login and post in here you must have a square enix valid and active account?

Ever take an Internet Poll before?

The results are skewed because the respondents are not chosen from a random sampling of the base population.

From hit #3 using the search term "internet poll self sampling": "A self-selected sample that is not randomly selected from a population has no specification of sampling error" -- http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/rdrenka/Renka_papers/polls.htm

Also, the questions in the poll can provide bias toward certain answers.

[MistyMew]

Are you currently satisfied with FFXIV?: Only in some areas, but very disappointed in non instanced housing, 0 player creativity and no way to build anything , soooo basic and boring, limited and poorly designed..should have copied Rift 100%.

Numerous other issues but too many to list, they are not game breaking in any way as stand alones, but add them up, and they have become outright annoying after this long O.o

How long have you been playing FFXIV?:
Since the very first failed launch

Did you leave any other MMO in order to play FFXIV, and if so, which?: Nope I never quit one game for another, continue with all previous subs no matter, I like to jump into all games at one point, I don't unsub unless I feel developers are truly trying to screw players, or if I lose all trust in them to make any decision (happened once for a long stretch in wow)

[DPZ2]

besides saying "the forum is not representative of the WHOLE player base" is quite reduntant, you will never be able to have a 100% representative of the whole playerbase ever on a forum or in game. That being said the post from Kosmos992k seemed the usual attempt to discriminate whoever express any opinion against the current game status.

Hmmmmmm. So, you're implying that the only Truly Representative Response on this forum is one of gloom, disaster and despair, and that anyone who dares to say "things aren't that bad" is discriminating against you?

You also appear to have a personal conflict with this Kosmos992k. What's with that?

Are you a Black Knight, deliberately sabotaging our comfortable view of the game in order to, um, force us all to go play something else?

See how stupid arguments get when you inject spurious levels of animosity into the argument? Cut it out.

[KaijinRhada]

1. Sort of maybe. The pros and cons would be a discussion on its own.
2. 2.0 beta, though technically the start of 2015 since I stopped shortly after release.
3. No (my reasons for stopping any given MMO are always related to the game itself, not because of the existence of other games).

[Starbirth]

1. In the middle, concerned about its future.
2. Almost 2 years.
3. GW2. It was like a M&M without the chocolate inside.

[Lemuria]

1) No. I find myself logging in, doing dailies, and logging off.
2) Been playing since the UK release of FFXIV 1.0, warts and all.
3) Yes, several. Guild Wars 2. Champions Online. A brief fling with the Elder Scrolls Online. Rift.

I stay because despite its flaws, this game has potential. If the devs ever decide to release that potential, this game will be amazing. They need to break out of their comfort zones first though.

[AskaRay]

1. Yes
2. Year and three months
3. Not really, if you need to count one, count Ragnarok Online.