SE better do something or the game will drop dead

[Gramul]

Funny debate but the battle system has changed very little imo since beta. So whichever side you're on is pretty irrelevant.

They promised very loud that the system goes through a complete overhaul but all I see is reduced number of skills to use and minor stat tweaks.

That's it? Was that the complete overhaul? Should we still hold on to hope that the jobs will affect how this game is played solo? If this is it then the word overhaul led me wrong as I thought they saw that the combat is not fun nor does it require any strategy at all.

Arn't jobs going to be suited for multiplayer? And what exactly where you expecting from the overhaul? How did it fail to meet your expectations?

[Renshi]

You're saying that there's so little players coming in that it's not even worthy talking about.
Kai says we're having new players day after day, and I don't think having ~7 new players in our Linkshell is something little to talk about. Notice I've said New Players and not players who left to come back playin'. Adding that we would have around 15 in addition to our linkshell count.
Then get the players who join other linkshells and those who don't have one. I've seen many new players playing, both English-speaking and Japanese, and I can say this because I've seen them with my own eyes.

And now we can close this thread because of uselessness =)

[darkstarpoet1]

You're saying that there's so little players coming in that it's not even worthy talking about.
Kai says we're having new players day after day, and I don't think having ~7 new players in our Linkshell is something little to talk about. Notice I've said New Players and not players who left to come back playin'. Adding that we would have around 15 in addition to our linkshell count.
Then get the players who join other linkshells and those who don't have one. I've seen many new players playing, both English-speaking and Japanese, and I can say this because I've seen them with my own eyes.

And now we can close this thread because of uselessness =)

i can justify the to speak of comment. on my server after payment started we had roughly 50-60 english speaking players online. i have met at least 10 new english speaking players in the last few weeks. the english speaking population has dropped from 50-60 down to 30-40 at most times. yes, new players are coming in, but when the overall population continues to drop it's not enough to say that the game is bringing in enough new people to speak of.

[Xoo]

You're saying that there's so little players coming in that it's not even worthy talking about.
Kai says we're having new players day after day, and I don't think having ~7 new players in our Linkshell is something little to talk about. Notice I've said New Players and not players who left to come back playin'. Adding that we would have around 15 in addition to our linkshell count.
Then get the players who join other linkshells and those who don't have one. I've seen many new players playing, both English-speaking and Japanese, and I can say this because I've seen them with my own eyes.

And now we can close this thread because of uselessness =)

Quick few questions: Are 7 people going to improve the populations so much on Mysidia that population is no longer seen as a problem for everyone? Hell, are 7 people for each server going to solve this? No?; How about 14? -- 28? I'm saying, fairly, that those 7 people don't account for much in the way of a much larger problem. Blue on black or a drop in the pond.

[Bowen]

Just posted in another thread about how SE needs to advertise more. . .
And really, they do. After 2.0, SE will REALLY need to spread the word. . . Commercials on channels like idk uhhh Comedy Central, Animal planet, Disney. That would help soooo much. Half the reason people I know never have played it is because: "I have never seen a commercial of that game. . . Actually, I have seen one of FFXIII and trailers of the sequel but, never this game. . ."

[Renshi]

Then look at the future and see E3 and November's Beta and March's Release (didn't check back the plan, roughly), geez...
If you paid for it, have fun with what you have. Wait for the new players in 2013 before judging.

[darkstarpoet1]

Then look at the future and see E3 and November's Beta and March's Release (didn't check back the plan, roughly), geez...
If you paid for it, have fun with what you have. Wait for the new players in 2013 before judging.

then don't act like what someone said was wrong when it was correct ...geez.

[Renshi]

then don't act like what someone said was wrong when it was correct ...geez.

I'm sorry, I didn't want to be rude, that slipped me outta my hands...
And that's why this thread needs to be closed. Because we're talking for nothing essentially =)

[darkstarpoet1]

I'm sorry, I didn't want to be rude, that slipped me outta my hands...
And that's why this thread needs to be closed. Because we're talking for nothing essentially =)

all i was trying to say is that some servers have different issues than others. on a large server it is a good thing to see new players coming in even when some of the older ones are leaving. on a big server it is still easy to get a party together to do things so it is not as lonely.

the problem is on a smaller server when 2 leave and 1 joins you still have that loss of players when we can't afford to lose any. when you get online and see 30 english speaking players on and you are part of 2 of the biggest 3 shells on the server and none has more than 20 on(which includes 10 of the same people) it becomes difficult to get a high level party together when that 20 is 10-15 high level and 5-10 that has no class even to cap. i'm not saying the game is dead or that it cannot rebound. it's just some servers are really struggling due to it's depressingly low numbers.

this is the biggest reason i hope the server merge comes in before my 90 day subscription expires. if it doesn't i may have to take a break until whatever time they get it done. i enjoy the game(yes, there is aspects i am not fond of), but i play a mmo to meet others and group party doing stuff. if there's not enough players to group up with then it becomes an online rpg and i am not into playing solo daily.

[Renshi]

I dunno man, I think they kinda can afford to lose players in this phase of the game, since the thing we're doing is Supporting SE to do a good Final Fantasy XIV. The real players will come when SE has done the New Final Fantasy XIV. That's kinda what keeps me from judging the fact that players are gonna come back or not. It's just faith what runs in my head.

For those people who play in low-populated servers, I'm glad they'll have the choice to transfer. At least they can keep up the fun in another world with more people =)