SE better do something or the game will drop dead

[darkstarpoet1]

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 =)

oh yeah. they can afford to lose them because right now is beta and i think most people realize that although it was argued when payment started it wasn't there anymore. i don't mind paying for them to keep working on the game. i'm just on a horribly small server and it's bad when there's so few people online that even with 3-4 linkshells together you can only get enough people to do a primal once every few days.

exactly on the transfer. it's just that more people are needed to enjoy an online mmo. the numbers could dwindle to the point where there was only one server open during this time frame as long as there was enough to give feedback and they would be fine. it's just hard to give honest feedback on how the game is when there's not enough to get a group together to do things. i know i play daily and have alot of things i would like to do, but most of those require having a party to do. working on my luminary tools is ok, but that is not how i want to spend all the time i play the game.

if you even look across the forums the majority of negative feedback comes from people that are on the low population servers and the majority that are talking great about it are on the high pop ones. i'm hoping once the merge/transfer comes in the overall morale of the low population players, including myself, will improve due to having enough people to be able to group and do things with.

[Renshi]

Yeah, I can understand the feeling clearly. I just hope I might see you around!
About the beta part... how can I say it... It's a beta, okay? But it doesn't feel like it. There's a lore behind it, all this Seventh Umbral Era thing is happening in this "beta" period. It's more like the world is evolving to a new one, which is basically Beta -> Release, but with an interesting story that adventurers in 2.0 will not have the chance to experience if we don't open our mouth, y'know what I'm sayin'?

[darkstarpoet1]

Yeah, I can understand the feeling clearly. I just hope I might see you around!
About the beta part... how can I say it... It's a beta, okay? But it doesn't feel like it. There's a lore behind it, all this Seventh Umbral Era thing is happening in this "beta" period. It's more like the world is evolving to a new one, which is basically Beta -> Release, but with an interesting story that adventurers in 2.0 will not have the chance to experience if we don't open our mouth, y'know what I'm sayin'?

oh i completely agree with you. it is a beta and i don't mind paying for it because i have invested alot of time into my character. my only problem is the number of players on the server. i remember on release i would have issues even getting a retainer in limsa or grid because they were quite packed. now i don't even have an issue getting retainers in any ward i choose in uldah.

i am enjoying watching the world and game evolve and want to continue doing so until 2.0. i just want more people to enjoy the evolution with. hopefully the merge comes soon so that wish can come true. i just can't see paying to enjoy it if there's nobody on the server to enjoy it with. i'm hoping alot come back with jobs though because it would be good to see some of the friends i've made and kept over the last year back and active again.

i was just showing why the people on the smaller servers are more vocal in their problems. the morale on those servers is very low, at this point, and hopefully the merges will change alot of those mental states.

[Blitz0309]

Hi. I'm a "new player" on a high pop server.. well highest when i made my char.

I have yet to see someone say anything... i've tried to talk to people. Got nothing. So i've played solo.. mined up to level 30.. but that is as much of that mini game i can take.

There is no community, the world isn't alive. The most i've seen is people run around and emote. People don't respond, people don't talk. Everyone who has been playing raced to 50 on everything and has nothing to do... New players are scarce and have no one to talk to or play with.

Its hard to get excited about anything. The most excited i have been is to get a new weapon/pic.. every 8+ levels. Not to mention the search feature for the wards is tedious and annoying (which is why i have mostly npc bought armor). I was excited to get my mount, not sure why, it just lets me run somewhere faster to be alone.

Hopped on my mount and tried to get out of lominsa.. ended up jumping on the ferry... luckily i saw the little (!) light up by the gate or i wouldn't of gotten on the ship.. who would of though the NPC's weren't the ones to let you on. The ride was boring.. no scenary.. no mobs, no birds.. just the same thing aside from about 15 seconds when close to the other city... might of well just had a picture for 5 minutes... but i digress.

If the 2.0 launch actually brings in a good amount of new people and hopefully new servers.. then the game could do well. All things being said, the game isn't horrible. Its just not anywhere near what i consider to be final fantasy standards. I hope they make it better... god i do. I want a mmo to play.. but as it stands, this game, this community, this waste of time.

Can't have a mmo without people... and people apparently don't play this game.