Quote Originally Posted by Denmo View Post
I look at it this way. Those same 200 players/server are still playing some MMO out there, like this one, and they're still trying their hardest to enjoy the game the same way they did back then. These kinds of players will role-play, invest time with friends in game doing whatever, and make the game something more than the designers intended.

For these gamers, they'll be doing weddings whether or not the Devs invest the time to design a marriage event. This has no effect on whether a marriage event would be made or not. What will in XIV's case is whether or not the majority of players want it. Not because XIV is a "Modern MMO".
You're absolutely right, those 200 players are still doing their own thing to this day.

The point is that those 200 players are maybe 1% of a modern MMOs playerbase. The developers see that those 200 people think this would be really cool, and the other 20,000 only care about it if it gives a stat bonus or something. You're right that if enough people want it, maybe it will happen, but the bottom line is that development costs time and money, and these days not enough people *do* care about that sort of game content for developers to be willing to put resources towards developing it.