Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
Personally I'm not.

SE had the opportunity to end 1.0 in a bang, [...] and 1.0 hasn't changed in months minus a few small things.
...what? Logistically, it doesn't make a lot of sense to waste a ton of resources trying to improve 1.x when you could instead divert that energy to making 2.0 better. I'm surprised they've fixed as much as they have. The only thing I find galling is the stubborn muleish insistence that terribad drop rates are a-ok, which will cause me not to play 2.0 at all if that doesn't COMPLETELY CHANGE.

Quote Originally Posted by Azurymber View Post
The last 2 months should have been an aggressive campaign to impress current players, and make them -really- want to come back. I say this because it will essentially be up to current players and word of mouth to make this game a success.

Marketing a "fixed" game will not work. No matter how many ads are posted online and on tv, there is too much negativity associated with xiv. And negativity on the internet doesn't disappear.

So I'm curious to see if other people are psyched about ARR. How impressed are you by the last 2 months? Is the info sufficient to make your mouth water? Do you honestly believe that ARR will be the best MMO out there?
I don't know how other people feel, but I'm not going to try to get a bunch of people to play this game until I've actually played it. I don't care if they had a marketing blitz of videos that played original content of 2.0 on their YouTube page like 24 hours a day every day until launch... After getting like 40+ people to play at launch, having all but like 1 of them quit... I just can't be bothered until I'm really playing it and I really feel impressed enough to let another human being know that I think the game is good.

Also, pretty much anyone who has suffered through 1.x up until now will either undoubtedly come back to try out 2.0, or is absolutely crazy. Why punish yourself playing this "game" for any reason other than to set yourself up for 2.0? It's clearly subpar, and no rational person should subject themselves to such abject horror for no particular reason.

The sky isn't falling, yo. Just check out 2.0 when it launches. If it's good enough, play it. Maybe even tell someone about it. Done.