Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
Zaaku, I re-posted and bolded for emphasis for you. Of course hardcore players who stuck with Square Enix would be here more than casual players who wouldn't want to pay for the game as it is would be on these forums. Try hosting that poll in Zam and see where the votes tilt. I'm sorry to say, but your pocket vote doesn't count for anything - this game should be designed for the players that will join the game after 2.0, not just those that are here now.

Regardless of either case, you don't ignore one or the other camp - you find a medium. In this particular case, you can have your cake and eat it too.

But this trend of so called "like vote" polling needs to stop. It's horrible misrepresentation of the numbers this MMO should have had this deep into a normal life cycle.

We don't matter really? I suppose we don't after all. I mean we are the ones funding their little Lazarus project while they build the game in the background. We are the ones keeping FFXIV at the very least semi-relevant instead of hoping people will fall for FFXIV's relaunch. We are the ones who are going to be recruiting friends and recommending the title to people who are otherwise going to steer clear of a once disaster.

Yeah we aren't important after all I suppose. Let's all just keep pinning our hopes on that big fat lottery ticket casual crowd that will swell our ranks when 2.0 hits!

What pisses me off most is I can't even explain to you fully how much you are ruining your own expierence by bowing to the casual mindset. I can't impose the feeling of triumph and the self assertiveness a harder game forces you to adapt. I have no doubt if they made this into FFXI-2 our population would plummet. However after the ones who can't cut it leave those who remain will be better for the change and when new players join and face this giant wall of adversity we'll be there with an outstreched hand saying, "LS {Do you need it?}"

Those are the kinds of players that will stick with an MMO for years and years and years. What we have now is going to be a constant hit and quit fest as the casual crowd wanders off or loses interest when they can keep pumping out end game raids fast enough to keep up with their insane leveling ability.