Welcome Back Campaign Fail

[Krausus]

From May 9 to May 20, former FINAL FANTASY XIV players are invited to experience the vast changes made to Eorzea for free!
During this ten-day period, we invite holders of inactive service accounts to experience the once-in-a-lifetime Seventh Umbral Era content and try out new additions like the job system and the inn rooms that were introduced in Patch 1.21.


SO where is this once in a lifetime content? the battles that have been here since 1.21?? The Raids that have 1/1000 chance of dropping anything worth wearing??? the new Primal that no one fights cuz its "too hard" and no one wants to bother doing cuz anyone who wasnt too stupid or proud got all the items they needed/wanted from it?? I wonder how many people actually came back to check it out, and how many of them are impressed enough to stay

once in a lifetime = the story

[Elexia]

Thats because you want to go and do all those things and enjoy it

Nooooo...someone wants to do something in an MMO and others simply may not want to? UNNNNNNNPOSSIBLE!

especially when compared to say GW2 ><

You said the same thing about SWTOR. So what if something is different compared to "x mmo"..two different MMOs.

But when you quit because you cant overlook things and SE gives you 10 days to be impressed, it is unlikely you will be impressed.

Yet people, especially those of you who've been playing and paying already won't be impressed because they instantly thought it would be a totally different experience from the last 2 - 3 months they didn't want to play the game but paid to still access the forum.

A HELL of a lot of people I know who quit in 2010 and early 2011 were impressed with how much XIV has to offer and changed in comparison, the one thing that will never change and be the death of 2.0 is the community, however.

[viion]

Nooooo...someone wants to do something in an MMO and others simply may not want to? UNNNNNNNPOSSIBLE!

You said the same thing about SWTOR. So what if something is different compared to "x mmo"..two different MMOs.

Yet people, especially those of you who've been playing and paying already won't be impressed because they instantly thought it would be a totally different experience from the last 2 - 3 months they didn't want to play the game but paid to still access the forum.

A HELL of a lot of people I know who quit in 2010 and early 2011 were impressed with how much XIV has to offer and changed in comparison, the one thing that will never change and be the death of 2.0 is the community, however.

Not really sure how to respond to you, not making much sense to what I said :/

Glad you notice people who are impressed with what XIV has to offer right now, unfortunately though many comments on community sites and player base disagrees.

I guess it comes down to 2 things
- D3 is now lol
- Waiting on 2.0

[MoonKeeperr]

OP is trolling i feel. his comments are somewhat vague meh /ignore

[Elexia]

OP is trolling i feel. his comments are somewhat vague meh /ignore

He is, I've seen him around quite a bit prior to this campaign even started so he's either trolling or just venting and using this as a scapegoat >.>

[elreed]

I agree with several people here, i started this game with a friend who didnt stay because he felt that it was crappy, a few weeks ago he got back to check it out again before the welcome back campaign, he had troubles to log in with his former character so he made a new one, now he has only one class at 50 and the corresponding job still dealing with the af quest lines, he found the game harder and enjoyable than other MMO's he was playing, he hasnt even unlocked the Darkhold quest to be able to burn it, he cant do Aurum Vale yet of course, he doesnt have the main story quest all done, hes still dealing with the prequest to join a grand company, he doesnt have the ifrit r25 quest, of course he doesnt even got the Garuda one, etc...

So what im saying here is this, that guy is some kind of casual hardcore player he joined before this campaign and you know for sure that most of people that left didnt even wait for ifrit release or company release, some of them may have a 50 class, they still need to level up several classes to be able to solo stuff and do party stuff, they dont have gear, no companies, no af quest, no primal quest, they cant do several dungeons etc

At the moment, even if you play a lot theres a ton of stuff out there that you dont realize because you did it piece by piece like me when it was released, so now of course you feel that they dont have anything to do because you did all, but if you see all that stuff with a lvl 1 character is more stuff than what you think it is.

[Shosasosa]

By the way i was never trolling in this thread, i was/am honestly pissed off about the lack of content in 1.22/1.22a and think they could have waited till maybe when the imperial stronghold comes to advertise how much "better" the game has become.

[Orophin]

I think the OP is mad because he expected something specific, based on his bolded statement, to happen within the period of the welcome back campaign. I think SE just used that general statement, as they did when they started charging, to draw people in to experience the content that will be going away in 2.0. Some people actually care about the story, others just want the lootz, which is fine in either case. Everyone has their own reason for playing.

I think any kind of promotion SE does at this point to draw in old and new players alike is a winner. I've encouraged some people I know that either quit after the first month or have played off and on to give it another try, whether they want to resubscribe or not, just to see change to the fundamental systems of the game. One friend of mine detested the battle system, but I imagine with the changes to it, it's probably actually bearable to them now.

The point of this isn't to rush to 50 and try to experience all the content possible in 10 days. It's to show how the game has changed and hopefully draw in some more people to play this when 2.0 comes.

[Reinheart]

Only part I say they failed on this Welcome Back Campaign is they still had the servers all closed...
Some people wanted to start new characters on other servers to see how much the game changed and also be with other friends on other server and because the servers are locked due to the stupid Uldah Zone A issue they are playing solo on other servers. They like the new battle system but they aren't getting high enough level in 10 days time to even try to attempt Ifrit, Moogle, or easy raids like Totorak...

[Elexia]

Yep. Considering if you rush to 50, you'll miss:

1. The low level dungeon added quite a bit of people quit, and yes it is an actual dungeon (open world too.)
2. The subtle changes, especially to the UI which has changed the most between 2010-now, even if there's still a latency problem.
3. The tons of sidequests to do. These didn't exist at all in 2010 and there's actually quite a lot of them throughout all 3 cities.
4. The new class/job layout and so on.

There will/might be blood (I dont know this exact translation) for example is a very good sidequest for its level, lot a bit of story, decent fight involve, it's trivial to do at level 50 much like doing Ifrit (easy) as 50. Since anyone who played in 2010 and quit will not come back to the same game, it's UNPOSSIBLE to say otherwise.

That is what the campaign is for, not people who just quit when their free time ran out after they started charging.