Thread: Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

Originally Posted by ovIm

Naaa man, people don't all bounce from game to game every few days. Way too many people have "their" game that they enjoy and play a lot.

That may have often been true of "hardcore MMORPG players", but genuinely a simple glance at Steam over the years has always shown me that people are playing whatever the recent game release/DLC is, as if they are splashing money every few days on a new game/DLC. The design of the game sorta reinforces that SE sees this too.

Originally Posted by ovIm

There is both kinds of players, really, not just the one you have experienced.

Ok, sure, there are both kinds of players. But from what I have seen from average gamers - not just my own friends list but just glancing at anyone else's, that's the sort of behaviour I've seen from at least the slight majority.

Often there is maybe a game they gravitate to when there is nothing else releasing. The question is whether SE believes the majority of players would gravitate to this one for more than 3 days whatever they do. I think they are just casting their net wider so the people who leave after 3 days can feel like they actually did what they returned for.

FFXIV is not designed with that kind of "Casual" player in mind that you describe, but with the average salaryman, who works a 9-5 job, and then plays a couple hours of their game each day.

That too. Yoshi-P must understand this really well since he's working himself and couldn't play it hardcore himself.

We can desire the content to last ages and consume our whole life but the reality is most people don't have that sort of time or want to play other games as well, so it's not entirely wrong, from a business standpoint, to cast the net wider to the casual audience.