Yoshi-P on Character Growth

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

That lack of initiative, that stubbornly motivation to stay in a safe comfort zone, is ultimately the doom of this game in the long run.

Then people gets offended when i say that Yoshida is one of the things that need to change in order to get this game out of its stagnant status. Not wanting to risk anything is as much as mistake as wanting to do extreme changes.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

TLDR: Endgame will continue to be a boring glamour dispenser....

[ChocoFeru]

I played FFXI since the USA release for some good 7-8 years, and I loved it.

But still, I don't want horizontal progression on FFXIV. I don't want to waste my time on placebo content such as grind gear and merits just to be better in some aspects.


My character grows here in FFXIV, but in a different way.
Achievements can be a way to measure it's growth, a proof that he's been there and he's done that. There's no need to change gear every single time you face a new foe; it's just placebo and meaningless.

Also, it's important that new players can catch you up fast. In FFXI it was a problem when a friend wanted to join and he had to spend 1-2 years before reaching you, and even then he was still far from you.

[ADVSS]

so is squall's outfit the last veteran reward?

And its not a bad thing that the game doesnt take the 11 route as stated above for the sake of the youngin's. But you do have subscribers like myself who have not missed a week of subscription since arr launched, it would be hella nice if you allowed midcore/hardcore players who dont just up and leave all the time, something worth their time, something a little more like everyones been asking, something meaningful

You even get seasonal events from year 1 in the cash shop, etc.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well since Yoshida basically made his stance known, are people still going to play and expect things to change?

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

Well since Yoshida basically made his stance known, are people still going to play and expect things to change?

Well, server populations already have told the answer to that. 3.4 won't heal the damage already done by Legion and this game incapability to retain players. If the expansion is announced, but no fundamental changes are coming with it in the coming months, 3.5 could potentially mean the end of this game as we know it, best case escenario, we will see a lot of server merges to try to make populations get back into healthy numbers (problem i don't expect you to understand since you play in Balmung, which basically is another game than the rest of us play) worse case escenario, we going F2P because this game, if population keeps leaking, would not be sustainable with lower populations than we have, and seems that Yoshida isn't interested in fixing that.

[Musashidon]

3.5 could potentially mean the end of this game as we know it

the game will live way past 3.5, i will say you did say *could* and nothing is impossible when you say could.

i could run into a million dollars tommorrow but most likely won't happen, the game could fail in 3.4 or 3.5, 4.0 5.0 6.0 tomorrow but the chances are pretty slim.

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

the game will live way past 3.5, i will say you did say *could* and nothing is impossible when you say could.

With this game population reaching 500k the chances of seeing server merges are not slim, are very realistic and actually, could solve many problems for several servers which are struggling. Also going F2P in case of a mayor dissapointment after expansion (HW ultimately translated into a very big dip of player population, from the activity perspective, HW was a failure as a expansion, so there is previous experience to support this) aren't slim neither, either that or what would be worse, a change in the schedule of updates, reducing developing cost and maintenance cost for this game, shorting efectively the life span of this game.

This isn't FFXI, we are not going to see a "noble" transition to maintenance mode in a decade, if things doesn't change, we will see a very problematic transition into maintenance mode in 2 o 3 more expansions.

[Frederick22]

Also going F2P in case of a mayor dissapointment after expansion (HW ultimately translated into a very big dip of player population, from the activity perspective, HW was a failure as a expansion

This isn't FFXI, we are not going to see a "noble" transition to maintenance mode in a decade, if things doesn't change, we will see a very problematic transition into maintenance mode in 2 o 3 more expansions.

Man... do you even understand what you are saing?
HW a failure?
You.. know at this point I'm not sure you are just trolling.

[Frederick22]

Well, server populations already have told the answer to that. 3.4 won't heal the damage already done by Legion. If the expansion is announced, but no fundamental changes are coming with it in the coming months, 3.5 could potentially mean the end of this game as we know it, best case escenario, we will see a lot of server merges to try to make populations get back into healthy numbers (problem i don't expect you to understand since you play in Balmung, which basically is another game than the rest of us play)

You and what else? The loudy complain minority of the game?

I'm so glad that Yoshi-P confirmed that is paying attention to the silent players, were the mayority is.

Honestly you are way exagerating if you think this game will die. The current system is good, and it let me do a lot of irl stuff.

Please, please..... dont bring the "you are from Balmug" drama here, okay?