Zeah Wrote:It's new.
And shiny.
And hasn't been on the market for 6+ years.
New stuff to discover. No one's level capped. Everything isn't already in a wiki page. Again, new content added constantly, whereas an MMO like WoW is just throwing stuff around. That game has been dumbed down to the point of making me want to hurl.
They aren't difficult because they've been around forever and everything has been done already. This is a brand new world, again, stuff still being created and discovered. That should be appeal enough.
It isn't shiny. It's far from shiny. It's small, unfinished, non-intuitive. It's difficult, if not obnoxiously hard, to communicate effectively and well. Being excited that new content is being added is like being thankful when the waiter finally brings your appetizer, after the meal arrives. You should've had it to begin with.
FFXIV doesn't need to be WoW. But it cannot and will not survive in it's current incarnation. The current MMO population will not have the patience that FFXI's fanbase had, or that EQ's fanbase had, or even that SWG's fanbase had. They didn't expect things to be finished, clean, and full of content right out of the box.
Times change. People won't accept that now. If a game doesn't hold a significant portion of it's population after the trial month, that reputation is going to take ages to live down. That's all it takes to kill 'em these days.
Too many people are overlooking major problems by saying, "Well, at least it's not WoW". Don't hate a program so much that you defend something broken just out of spite. It's just a program. It's not out to get you.
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