How pysched are you about ARR?

[VitoScaletta]

I'm not going to lie, my interest has diminished quite drastically over the last month, I think I have just grown tired of watching linkshells break and disperse time and time again, making friendships which were short lived due to people quitting, all to be expected but I see this as a great opportunity for myself to go and take a break until my longtime friends come back or when ARR is released, I'm always going to love FFMMO and will always come back...(when the time is right.)

Um, duh? 1.0 is ending. I wouldnt be surprised if 80% of the population is 'afk till 2.0'.

I'm surprised everyone is pulling the 'friends' card. I for one can't wait to make new friends in a new setting. 1.0 felt too much like everyone was the same.

[Lirion]

I can't wait for it!

If a friend I met in a online game is worth having I make sure I keep in touch with this friend outside the game, other than that I play a video game to have fun.

[leomax]

I'm not very good at getting my views across lol, I know 1.0 is ending lol. I'm talking over a long period like 6 months ago, I've lost like 20-30 very good friends, half of them from XI who were pumped for SE 2nd MMO. That is tough to swallow when they still have no desire to come back for ARR, I still have hope when its out though!

I know people come and go eventually but its just been so up and down when its every month after the announcement of ARR and it gets frustrating lol, I should have taken that break 6 months ago as 1.0 was always a placeholder for whats to come.

[Lirion]

I'm not very good at getting my views across lol, I know 1.0 is ending lol. I'm talking over a long period like 6 months ago, I've lost like 20-30 very good friends, half of them from XI who were pumped for SE 2nd MMO. That is tough to swallow when they still have no desire to come back for ARR, I still have hope when its out though!

I know people come and go eventually but its just been so up and down when its every month after the announcement of ARR and it gets frustrating lol, I should have taken that break 6 months ago as 1.0 was always a placeholder for whats to come.

To be fair, the game doesn't offer much after you have done the primals and the story and logging on to chat might just not be an option for them. I'm sure most of the people who lost interest in 1.0 will at least check out ARR since they actually bought and played 1.0 because they were interested in the first place.

[leomax]

Saying that I think a lot of my feelings come from jumping server on the merge to Ragnarok for a better EU player base, but unfortunately that was a terrible decision as I was originally on Lindblum within a GREAT community (Save Point / Onions / HCC.) It was like I had logged into the game for the first time again aside from experience and levels gained.

[leomax]

I can't wait for it!

If a friend I met in a online game is worth having I make sure I keep in touch with this friend outside the game, other than that I play a video game to have fun.

Yeah I understand what you are saying, I do keep in touch with a few of them outside the game, but still I met these people in the game, this is what I love to do in my spare time and I miss playing something with people that have the same interests! :P None of my family/friends/work colleagues game so yeah its sad! xD

[Lirion]

Linblum is now Sargatanas after the merge, I was on Linblum before but Sargatanas is pretty bad for EU players so if you're EU and most of your friends left I don't think it would have made much difference if you stayed. I remember Lindblum having plenty of people but as many have left waiting for ARR I think the population in most servers have dropped. I checked some items in the ward yesterday and was surprised by how many 0 and single digits I saw next to the items.

Yeah I understand what you are saying, I do keep in touch with a few of them outside the game, but still I met these people playing what I love and I miss playing something with people that have the same interests! :P None of my RL friends game or remotely understand hehe. :P

Understand completely.

[KumaAkuma]

I'm sceptical. I've only seen new flashy graphics, one extra class, a quest system that WoW had 8 years ago and not even a level cap raise. Yeah they took the time to remake a lot of things, but did they really listen to their playerbase? Will it really be more than just one 1.0 graphic replaced by a flashy 2.0 graphic? Has there really been an effort made to make the game more playable? Will it have more content? I do not know, because they haven't shown any proof of that besides some flashy graphics.

[leomax]

I agree Kuma, SE have been playing catch up for a couple of years and need to be extremely careful right now. The disasters in Japan didn't help at all for that matter.

We won't see this games full potential until imo.

1. ARR is released and it gets a decent amount of subscribers and positive reviews.
2. Their first expansion.

Then SE can relax a little and truly open their minds and get shiii done, I'm sure they are working very hard.

I just don't know when all the moaning and bashing will stop to a certain degree, I hope ARR comes out with a bang yo.

[Firon]

I can't wait for 2.0. It's gonna be a lot of fun.