Quote Originally Posted by Artemiz View Post
If PvP players are the target audience of the FF team then they have done a terrible job, they seem to have developed a massive game with millions of players and nobody plays PvP. If you own a patrol station, who is your target audience? Is it the person wanting to buy a Snickers? or a 20 pack? I think we can both agree your target audience should be drivers.

All of the argument like this in this thread always seem to assume the tail is wagging the dog and not the other way around. "it would be popular if it was better" No, it's poor because nobody plays it so it gets no love from the Dev team, that's because the target audience of FF MMO' s always has been PvE players and the player base it's built up reflects that.
Squeenix target audience is not PvE players, it is CASUAL players and the Dev's expect that anyone who reached engame, is suppoest to carry all of them trough all the content, even if it means that youre the one carrying all the weight. Even PvE content is literally starving from endgame content outside of raiding.

Back to the matter of PvP, it is poor in design because they lack the understanding that PvP is not made to be a casual thing in a MMORPG. Unless they take the risk of reworking things from scratch, which in turn might attract more players overall, things arent going to change for FFXIV PvP. Simply adding another Mode and then call it a day, simply wont do it, we have seen how far this kind of thing got us when they added Onsal Hakair and Rival Wings Hidden Gorge, and it will definitely happen again.