Quote Originally Posted by mallleable View Post
Yeah, and no. I think he's right to realize that FFXIV is not just competing with other MMOs, but other multiplayer games, and RPGs. MMOs as a whole don't seem to be gaining new players, and the existing MMO players just seem to migrate between the same games. I think MMOs have lagged behind other games, and need to evolve. But to only focus on mobile games makes me nervous. A lot of 'live service' slop that's popular with mobile games can turn ugly really fast.
XIV will never get rid of the fact it's a mmo. Other mobile game players won't become MMO players because you put a paint on the said mmo. MMO players might leave because of that. This is really a worst of both world situation.

If SE want an online game to rival the other multiplayers game taht are no mmo, they should make a new game from scratch. The whole FF fall as an IP is full of that "we want to get new public, but end not attracting them while displeasing the public we have. Their remasters, old school games (bravely, octopath) work because they don't go that way.

Now they apply this to XIV...