We should get exp boost in the game.

[Jirah]

Why does every game have to target everyone? If you don't want story with your MMO, that's 100% ok. But why not just find an MMO more to your tastes than say that a game that doesn't match your tastes is wrong? Sounds like you don't care about story in your games, which is fine, more power to you. But you'd probably be better off just playing story light games than complain about story in story heavy ones.

Edit: Also you talk about how RPG players are often a big target audience of MMOs. And you know what RPGs are commonly known for? Story. So why would RPG fans be upset about a story heavy game?

This is the bane of all games, games with a specific niche trying its best to appeal to everyone by cutting its bell-end off appeals to nobody. The Wii taught the gaming media the “casual audience” is a vast ocean compared to the puddles that are categorized as the “gaming audience” as a result many games have lost their luster trying to have the broadest appeal possible. The broader the more people will Play it, and more Money

FF14 is already a high niche game, a MMO, a Final fantasy game, being so closely tied to “anime culture” for some reason, and subscription based models. I say fine tune what we got not throw it all the way for the causal mindset. Simplifying the game to the point of it being a kids game

[Stepjam]

This is the bane of all games, games with a specific niche trying its best to appeal to everyone by cutting its bell-end off appeals to nobody. The Wii taught the gaming media the “casual audience” is a vast ocean compared to the puddles that are categorized as the “gaming audience” as a result many games have lost their luster trying to have the broadest appeal possible. The broader the more people will Play it, and more Money

FF14 is already a high niche game, a MMO, a Final fantasy game, being so closely tied to “anime culture” for some reason, and subscription based models. I say fine tune what we got not throw it all the way for the causal mindset. Simplifying the game to the point of it being a kids game

You got no argument from me. Dead Space 3 was such a disappointment because EA try to take a series from an inherently niche genre, horror, and make it follow AAA action shooter conventions. The worst part was that Dead Space 3 wasn't even a BAD game, it was an okay shooter with cool coop ideas, but it appealed to absolutely nobody as fans of the series wanted another single player horror game which DS3 didn't provide, and the people EA was shooting for probably didn't want to jump into the third installment of a series as their starting point and besides, they had stuff like Battlefield already. So the game flopped hard and EA pulled the plug on the series.

Ugh, don't get me started on EA, they are probably the worst company in the industry right now.