Young players are not going to play FF14

[Noumenon]

The "former MMO player" Yoshi P wishes to appeal to young players.

At first you'd think they're trying to entice traditional FF players, but Duty Support is hardly the main problem of the game.

Second Life crowd? Let's be honest, that's accidental, JP doesn't have a huge ERP scene to sustain the game there.

With recent interviews it's now clear who exactly they're trying to cater to - and ruin the game in the process. Young gamers. A nebulous, ill-defined player segment that they don't themselves understand. They're bringing up examples like Fortnite. Square Enix thinks FF14, along with the rest of their product line, should evolve to chase these young players. Which is why we have things like FF7: Battle Royale edition.

Give up now, CBU3. No 14 year old is going to play a tab targeting MMO with a 2.5s GCD that makes you read hundreds of hours of dialogue.

You know what they said about turn based RPGs? The market is dead, no one is going to play it anymore. Sure, young people might not play turn based RPGs, but surprise, if you make a good RPG, people flock to it. You get critically praised.

Maybe FF14 should start trying to be the best MMO it can be instead of chasing clouds.

[Bonoki]

Even if young players do play this game, this game is so 18+ ERP heavy oriented that, that teen isn't going to find a place to fit in around here very easily without a whole lot of lying.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Even if young players do play this game, this game is so 18+ ERP heavy oriented that, that teen isn't going to find a place to fit in around here very easily without a whole lot of lying.

Um, what are you talking about? It's very easy to find people to talk to without ERP in XIV.

The percentage of the playerbase focused solely on ERP is so overblown. Haven't run into ERP once in 9 years myself.

-Looks at the many types of Threads posted on this Forum Recently-

Y'know...the more of these threads I see, the more excited I am for the Future of this game and what happens next.

80% of these are started by 1 person lol.

[Bonoki]

Um, what are you talking about? It's very easy to find people to talk to without ERP in XIV.

The percentage of the playerbase focused solely on ERP is so overblown. Haven't run into ERP once in 9 years myself.

Have you seriously not looked in the PF in 9 years to see a bunch of 18+ venues?

[ZephyrMenodora]

Have you seriously not looked in the PF in 9 years to see a bunch of 18+ venues?

Nope, I haven't looked for them. I chat with people daily too.

[Renalt]

Have you seriously not looked in the PF in 9 years to see a bunch of 18+ venues?

We're both in Balmung so I know you'll have to agree that yes there are a ton of PF 18+ spamming...however talking to people in just normal conversation is very easy. Just simply say anything in shout and you can get a conversation going.

[MistakeNot]

Even if young players do play this game, this game is so 18+ ERP heavy oriented that, that teen isn't going to find a place to fit in around here very easily without a whole lot of lying.

The game isn't oriented that way. Some players are, but you mostly don't notice much of it unless you go looking for it.

[NekoMataMata]

The game isn't oriented that way. Some players are, but you mostly don't notice much of it unless you go looking for it.

The point is still somewhat true though. There's an age gap between younger players and most of the people on this game. The closest age groups in this game to me are people that are usually at least 5-6 years older than me(mid twenties).

I definitely feel out of place at times and I think most of the people closer to my age just stay silent rather than trying to interact or find friend groups.

[SamSmoot]

I've never seen any evidence of ERP in the game. But then, I never interact with other players beyond dungeon runs and hunt trains.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

-Looks at the many types of Threads posted on this Forum Recently-

Y'know...the more of these threads I see, the more excited I am for the Future of this game and what happens next.
At this point, I just wanna see how it changes, and how the audience changes.
Or if nothing will work out and it just dies.

Or maybe we get a Dragonflight situation where it DOES improve...but people finally moved on to a new MMO....and then Im excited to see the cycle repeat itself on a new game. XD