Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
We don't make up reasons. They're valid, good reasons, and the facts are real facts, not made up.
Please post documentation that will validate your claims. Until then they remain your assumptions.

Also, we kept at it. That aspect, in and of itself kept many, many people out there on the HNM scene. I'm not saying I liked the timers (we dont wan't any more long respawn timers), but it kept people subscribed, and in game.

During Zilart, which primarily was SKY/HNM/Dynamis for endgame, there were a little over 200,000 people subbed (this was late 2004). Players leveled up, geared themselves adequately enough so that they could work their way into that content.

Comparitively, FFXIV has around 10-12,000 subscriptions. Seems like they were doing something right in their prior MMO.

Can you honestly tell me that HNM's would hurt FFXIV's chance for future success?