Quote Originally Posted by Roj View Post
No sorry but you have it quite back to front, the only MMO in peril of dying from competition is the ageing behemoth that is WoW. If anything a game such as GW2 could start the impending avalanche of players away from WoW to other MMO's and that would only help FFXIV's numbers.
There are more than enough customers to keep all the MMO's going, the only problem is persuading a large proportion of
them that WoW is not the only MMO in existence. FFXIV for instance ( and for that matter most other mmorpgs ) could probably keep going with just 2-3% of WoW's playerbase as regular subscribers, surley that is doable post 2.0, in fact probably not very hard at all provided SE actually market the game properly ( or at all xD )
What SE sees as "Success" is not what the media or press really call a Success, no one is saying XIV will die, I am saying there is absolute zero basis that XIV will prevail to rocket high numbers (like half a million, i mean come on the initial release hit that lol).

I think you misunderstood that point, I am not saying the game will die, I am saying there is no way it will hit hundreds of thousands of players come 2.0, and it is going to be a tough time.