Think the game will succeed?

[Azurus]

This game will stay open but besides who is here now, I doubt anyone will remember or care in a year. Unfortunately, 2.0 is just too far off, and new things are constantly coming out for people to play. I personally do not think the subs will grow much beyond what is already here and it is a real shame. Gamers have too many options so a failed launch is close to a death sentence with most games barely able to stay alive on life support afterwards.However anything can happen so who knows...

[weeble]

i'm hoping for it to be great at 2.0 but it's iffy to me. lets hope they not building it for a possible wash to begin with. but i doubt the next year will work out at all for them, they will have there small base like others said and that bout it.

swtor while not being the game of all games it has packed servers with people to play with, not need to do much to get a group going for anything during the beta i played and don't expect that to change for least a year. the story to was fine even though i'm not a star wars fan, and even the easy game play was fine since i solo'd mostly everything. it's defenetly not a ffxiv killer when 2.0 comes out long as 2.0 has the content of ffxi did when NA launched. though alot of players are maxed out everything so even then will it really be enough? lets hope so. everyone that bought ffxiv i'm sure will come back and hopefully the other mmo's they are at lost it's fiz. but if this game stays in the path of easy content, pl'ing to max and weak content like it has now, it has not chance at all, everyone will go back to the game they already at and play the same type of content and wait for the sexxy new mmo's on it's way in a year. dark millennium/fallout/marvel that i know of, but i can just imagine what is in the make for 2013 and 14, also got gw2,diablo3 on it's way prior to 2.0 and they are no monthly.

other mmo's they will all take there piece of players but i doubt anyone that wouldn't of already left ffxiv by now even if it launched very well, lot of mmo'ers are in and out of mmo's like locusts, devour and off to the next piece of land. but there really will be some great mmo's coming out by 2013 lmao, way to long of a wait. time will tell is all. lets hope that ffxiv 2.0 is at the least trying to build a game for old ffxi players and the like where we can still give 5years of our lives to it, but i don't think so.

[Venat]

I personally think its gonna be a fresh game but it will still have lack of content when it launches. I personally think because of this they should pose pone the ps3 launch for another 3 months. That should be enough time to fix adjustments from after Version 2.0 and have new content ready.

Game lacks long term content or rewards which require alot.

[weeble]

NA had all this content when they launched, anything less is probably not gonna work out even if other mmo's launch with less lots of times, adding a pvp zone doesn't help there debacle like it does most mmo's. this is first and for most a pve game that has a pve audience.

[Blarp]

I have no idea if the game will succeed at this point. I thought it was going to be a success at launch and then I played it. Then it went F2P for over a year to get "fixed." The game is not relevant to the larger MMO audience and I'm not sure a pre-rendered trailer at E3 is going to change that. SE has always sucked at marketing their games. They've been fortunate enough to rest on their laurels and create hype just by calling a game "Final Fantasy." I don't think that's as true as it once was. 2.0 looks great, but people are going to need a bit more than pretty pictures and words.

This game will not compete with TOR. There's really no debating that point. TOR has sold more boxed copy pre-orders (in NA only) than FFXIV has probably sold worldwide since release. They picked a very unfortunate time frame to start charging.

SE has a huge uphill battle to turn the perception of their product around. People will be trying these new MMO's i.e. TOR, Tera, GW2, TSW etc. Most people don't just decide to start playing another MMO that none of their friends play. Speaking for myself, social ties are what keep me playing these games. If my entire guild and RL friends decide they're going to play TOR for awhile, I'm not going to say peace and go play XIV with none of my buddies.

[AmyRae]

This game will not compete with TOR. There's really no debating that point. TOR has sold more boxed copy pre-orders (in NA only) than FFXIV has probably sold worldwide since release. They picked a very unfortunate time frame to start charging.

Can't deny hard numbers. SWTOR has over 825k in pre-sale orders the week ending Nov. 19 (with still 5 weeks to go before launch!). That's more sales than even Rift had on its opening day.

http://www.vgchartz.com/charts/preorders.php?date=40867

But even if FFXIV was still free to play, I don't think that would change anything.

Ultimately, it comes down to the 2.0 relaunch no matter what. Either that's going to be good enough for FFXIV to claim the necessary following, or it will perish. We've known this for some time now.

[TheVedis]

Can't deny hard numbers. SWTOR has over 825k in pre-sale orders the week ending Nov. 19 (with still 5 weeks to go before launch!). That's more sales than even Rift had on its opening day.

http://www.vgchartz.com/charts/preorders.php?date=40867

But even if FFXIV was still free to play, I don't think that would change anything.

Ultimately, it comes down to the 2.0 relaunch no matter what. Either that's going to be good enough for FFXIV to claim the necessary following, or it will perish. We've known this for some time now.

pre orders dont mean anything

DCU had over 1mil pre orders and it just went f2p cuz it sucked


also NDA is funny, ive been breaking it for a year, i wont lie, star wars sucks as an mmo, and anyone who looks at it and isnt such a die hard star wars fan they arent blind can see it


finaly, the 2 games are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GENRES

star wars fans and final fantasy type fans are 2 completely different types of people

people wanting a sci fi mmo arent gonna care about fantasy mmos and so on

[Synfrag]

pre orders dont mean anything

DCU had over 1mil pre orders and it just went f2p cuz it sucked


also NDA is funny, ive been breaking it for a year, i wont lie, star wars sucks as an mmo, and anyone who looks at it and isnt such a die hard star wars fan they arent blind can see it


finaly, the 2 games are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GENRES

star wars fans and final fantasy type fans are 2 completely different types of people

people wanting a sci fi mmo arent gonna care about fantasy mmos and so on

Exactly this ^

You would never catch me with a flippin light saber in my hands.

[Blarp]

Exactly this ^

You would never catch me with a flippin light saber in my hands.

But playing a game with furries and toddlers is cool?

[XxOstiaxX]

Exactly this ^

You would never catch me with a flippin light saber in my hands.

Because wielding a sword with red glow, flames or some sort of light radiance sure does not look like a light saber :/