Dedicated Servers?

[indira]

those not liking the idea are basically those who are happy with the direction mmo's are taking. it's easy to say this is stupid cause the mmo is how you like them. you can't say people don't want grinds or carrot on sticks, or forced party play or caps on everything, or death penalties via ffxi, but the reality is some people/a lot of people would love this. how long have you been on these forums or ffxi forums, people want old school mmo feel, they are yes minority but there is, i can guarantee, enough to fill up at least 1 server just as tight as any other server. people love progression and party play, they are the 2 things they live for in mmo's. so to say who would go to a server with these options is saying just that, your happy with the servers and how mmo's are panning out. has nothing to do with the idea here at hand, it's giving extra options to the same exact mmo, an mmo that already has many many servers. really this is the only way i can see mmo's moving towards, it's this or they are gonna keep finding themselves going f2p and losing customers.

there has been probably multiple threads that have reached 200pages on these topics, and while the majority are fighting for not ...there were tons that want this. if you were on these forums pre 1.0 launch even, you would of seen this too. every other thread about caps, death penalties, party play, lower drop rates. people might not want ffxi, but the shell of it, the soul of it, yes. witch with options in any mmo it can create this feel.

what if mmo's took a 360 and all of a sudden all mmo's that release from now on took a year just to hit max level and everything was 1% drop rates. then would this idea be a good one? ..lol yep cause now your thinking for yourself. yes i would be able to pick the lower drop rates and easier progression to max.

reason why games went F2P because the were pure WOW/EQ2 clones with no other substance to make it different. FFXI was made somthing like EQ1 but had its own thing added to it. FFXIV is doing the same but to modern MMO style.

the game should only be play how they intended plain & simple. to have a dedicated server you also need all the important files to the game which means alot of hacking will be going on thats just a fact and a bad move for a game people pay money. SE will not give us that kinda power.
i tell you one thing if i had the power of a server i'll cheat just because i can, i can guarantee i wont be the only one.