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(05-26-2015, 12:26 PM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(05-26-2015, 12:21 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: I have nothing against new players. However given the choice between no new players and new entitled/unskilled players, I would rather have no new players.
New people can play the game like it was designed or they can leave. You might disagree, but Squares mmo team does not. Which is why they are sticking fast to this.
The majority of the FFXIV player base is already unskilled and entitled; I've been here for six months and can outplay people that have been here long enough to grind out full i130.
New people are not the problem. Stagnation, however, is another story.
And if you need a reason to care about new players, here's one.
If this expansion proves unfriendly to new players, word will get out that the game AS A WHOLE is not new player friendly.
That won't matter now. It won't matter in a month, maybe two, maybe three or four.
But what happens when the Next Shiny New Thing starts pulling people away in droves, like SWTOR did to a lot of games, and GW2 did to SWTOR, for example?
If the existing player base gets pulled away from a game that brands itself as "Get Lost Newbie, durhurrhurr", what happens?
Not every server is as big as Balmung, nor has as established a community, nor could take the hit.
No new players = "Hey, FFXIV Is Now Free To Play!" = Existing Community saying "WTF, OMFG time for a new game" = "The Exact Kind Of Thing That Kills An MMO That Isn't WoW"
If SE doesn't care, hey, their call. I'm still playing and buying the expansion. But FFXIV will have to weather a hit, eventually, hell, even from THEMSELVES. FFXV is coming. The new player money will still go to SE, but if the MMO itself suffers, how long until it becomes a White Elephant and SE pumps dev time and investment into something else?
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