Quote Originally Posted by NefarioCall View Post
But i do recall a year long drama in 2011 about how Star Wars and Rift would DOOM FFXIV. The drama is past and neither game really doomed anything.
Let's cut the bull: FFXIV WOULD HAVE BEEN DOOMED if it wasn't for two things: the FF name and Square Enix. Anything, ANYTHING from a smaller company that had as rough a launch as XIV would have been dead and gone already. There are numerous examples of this.

A simple allegiance to Final Fantasy, from both the community (a staunchly loyal, pre-existing fanbase) and Square Enix (who can't afford to let a main-series title bearing the FF name tank), is the reason FFXIV is still around, and the only, only, only likely and realistic one.

Hey, I'm all for SE turning the game around, don't get me wrong. But any other MMO from any smaller, less prestigious company would have been long gone.


neither game seems to be bad exactly, but then neither even nearly met expectations, let alone exceeded them.
But on the Rift front, Rift was the first game from a start-up company, received numerous awards over the past year, is expanding to Russia, China and Korea, and just over the past couple days it was announced they made over 100 million in revenue and earned Trion another 85 million in funding. It may not be destroying WoW, but for a fresh start-up company on their fledgling release, it destroyed expectations, and honestly embarrassed the legendary top RPG company, MMO experienced, filthy rich SE Corporate.

Rift, if anything, beat the odds and surpassed many expectations. I'm not saying it's a WoW killer or even poised to become the dominant MMO, but for all practical purposes it did indeed surpass expectations. Not sure where you get your numbers and info from.