February 5th Announcement, Realistic Expectations Thread

[Theodric]

I'd rather not see FFXIV abandoned in favour of a different project. To me, it makes more sense to upgrade it bit by bit and fix some of the limitations that are currently holding it back. I'm not against a more action focused MMO and if it had stuff I enjoyed, I'd play it...but the development team are adamant that FFXIV will have staying power over the coming years. I'd like for that to be proven with more than just words.

[MachaYum]

I'd rather not see FFXIV abandoned in favour of a different project. To me, it makes more sense to upgrade it bit by bit and fix some of the limitations that are currently holding it back. I'm not against a more action focused MMO and if it had stuff I enjoyed, I'd play it...but the development team are adamant that FFXIV will have staying power over the coming years. I'd like for that to be proven with more than just words.

Square Enix’s ffxiv dev team keeps shoving excuses down our throats everytime we want major improvements to be made.
“It can’t be done currently”
“Server limitations”

It’s like, if you can’t improve upon your current mmo, you might as well begin another one so you don’t have these issues. FF11 still has players, just not as many as ffxiv. But let’s be realistic, we all know they won’t start a new mmo project till they’ve milked every run down aspect of this game. Which is like, the year 2040, lol. They just REALLY do not want to improve upon things that should be improved on. I know Yoshida said “feel free to have high expectations” but I don’t think his definition of high expectations are the same as ours....

[Absurdity]

I'd rather not see FFXIV abandoned in favour of a different project. To me, it makes more sense to upgrade it bit by bit and fix some of the limitations that are currently holding it back. I'm not against a more action focused MMO and if it had stuff I enjoyed, I'd play it...but the development team are adamant that FFXIV will have staying power over the coming years. I'd like for that to be proven with more than just words.

"upgrading it bit by bit" unfortunately has it's limits, the engine and code this game is running on is ultimately a mess and all they seem to be able to do with it is put bandaids over the cracks.