Game Design Concepts that the Devs and Playerbase has Forgotten

[Magikazam]

Every time people say they come from WoW, here, they say they don't want to do the story.

I came from WoW when I started playing back in ARR and I wanted to do the story. I still think it bad to force it down people throat since it not something everyone want. Locking contents behind the story also make it harder to play with friends who are just starting. People can already skip most cutscenes while doing the story anyway so it just feel weird that you can't just...skip the whole thing whitout paying yknow.

They just want to get to the endgame immedately

Some people like trials and raids. Sadly while not impossible, it kinda rare finding people who want to do prog or bling prog on old contents. This create a situation that even if you, let say, like the story but want to do endgames encounter, you need to go trough 10 years of story b4 getting access to the most populated endgame contents. Remember, that hundreds of hours of story just to get the right of unlocking the things.

The other side of this is Gacha oriented games like Genshin Impact where you can access the story, but it's gated by P2W gacha mechanics. You can not finish a gacha game unless you either get lucky in the "Free" gacha rolls, or you are impatient and drop thousands of dollars on 0.2% gacha drops.

That depend on the games. The only gacha I play, limbus company, can be completed whitout even rolling in the gacha. People have proven you can even complete the hardest content of the game (wich is optional btw) With the weakest team possible, wich often include characters that are weaker than the base stuff the game give to you.

Final Fantasy X sales include X and X2. FF7 is 14m alone, FF16 alone is 10m.

From what I've seen, as of 2023 FF X sales come up to 20M wich is bigger than og FF7 wich stand at 14m and the remake that stand at 12m. idk why you added FF16 in there, but remeber that the game had kind of bad sales at launch and also it often come ''free'' with PS5 consoles. That how I got mine, I worked at Gamestop during it launch.

Gacha games you can't play after the publisher decides to shut it down. Which is why you should never play them. Don't get invested in it.

Just like every live service game, wich btw include FF14. Don't get invested in this game please.