This game is not finished - Truth?

[Lionx]

You know, the only thing i can ask for them to do is NOT LISTEN TO EVERYTHING THE COMMUNITY SAYS.

I used to be a huge supporter for players speaking their minds and the devs taking their sugguestions. But theres a difference to that and the way Blizzard is doing things, with kneejerk reactions, having their forums into QQ-fests, and things changing because people are complaining. This goes to other games as well with the new patching system in consoles. It lowers the challenge and honestly theres alot of dumb changes that eventually makes me like the game ALOT less.

Listen, but listen selectively. DO change the laggy UI, or make things customizable and talk to us. But DON'T listen to every guy that says we need this, or this is OP, or etc. Be firm for some parts..don't make it into a clustersmurf like WoW can be at places.

Basically, i been looking at this forum and other places from time to time and seeing if theres any changes worth noting. Partly cuz i like the game to succeed, and partly because i bought the damn worthless CE edition in anticipation. So far theres nothing that makes me interested or shown that there are significant changes since i last checked up on them to bother logging in for free.

So is it not finished? Damn straight its not...i wish they did not release this game so soon just to beat Cataclysm. Is time running out in terms of grace period since those claims/promises took place? Not yet but its getting close imo. You gotta do this stuff fast, thats just the truth in terms of keeping player's short attention spans. No matter how doable it is or not =/

How many MMOs have committed to such immense changes so early in the game's lifespan? Is this a first in the history of MMOs?

I don't know if its a first or not, but whether it is or not, it only further validates the fact that they really messed up bad. When I read this, its like, why wouldn't they? They HAVE to given their big big big screwup. If that makes any sense.

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Also console MMOs do not exist outside of the FF series. There are others but they fail, and they are of the last generation of consoles when it was a new thing to try out and venture into. All MMOs are 99% PC, the only 1% would be the FF series. Its so prevalent that pro-console paraders would even say that the only real games the PC can play are MMOs. For many good reasons too.

This gives way to the fact that FFXIV might not ever get the amount of hardcore players that XI ever has. There will be some diehard fans of this game no matter what, but the hardcore MMO players are on the PC and most have moved on. For console type players, i would expect most of them to be casual players. Unless you get a huge hit for people like WoW did, you need hardcore people to sustain the subscription...casuals are just temporary cash flow.

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For how much stats matter in MMOs, check out ffxionline for Armando's old FFXI's posts, and also elitestjerks.com for WoW. These guys play the game JUST to do number crunching. It evolves the game, by passing it onto the raiders that do well, then into the newer people. Tactics can change radically because of it too.