Will the game last 12 months?Follow

Hey, you're like me! I never understood the argument that only a certain kind of MMORPG can be successful in the modern market, since making a "modern" MMORPG only gives players one more choice out of the droves of others -- others which always seem to fall short of their grand designs.

I'm not subscribing, either, but I'm going to keep a close eye on the game. Perhaps, after a few large-scale patches, there will be enough varied and long-term content to justify the time. As it is now, though, I know exactly what to expect, and I know that I could play (and have played) auto-group instance-runner a dozen other places.

You and me both!

In addition to being flat-out fun, this game is incredibly friendly for multiplayer. My wife is playing this with me, and last night we did her first dungeon together. She played on her laptop, while I played on the PS3 (I usually play on my gaming rig in the man cave). Thanks to the duty finder, I was able to mine for iron ores while she updated her client and got logged in. With virtually no waiting, we queued up and were off on the dungeon run. I let the party know it was my first time healing, and that it was my wife's first dungeon, and off we went!

During the run, we each gained a level, and the wife got a couple cool gear pieces for her archer. Then, the game dropped us off again in our respective locations, and I went back to mining for awhile before going to bed.

In the olden days of FFXI, this night would have been:

1) Me logging in and running to the dungeon.
2) Me waiting for 20 minutes
3) Dungeon run
4) I'm now stranded in the middle of nowhere, and I need to spend time/resources getting back to where I was!

So, yeah... this game is VERY social friendly. The community is very talkative and helpful, and finding linkshells and FCs is easy. You can talk in dungeon runs, too... you just can't be afraid to initiate conversation. That's exactly how FFXI used to be, too.

I think it will last for more than 12 months (almost every mmo is still running no matter how few players they seem to sink to), the quality of content is usually toned down once they see the actual numbers of players on the servers though. Content is directly linked to number of players. Then again ARR already had the quality toned down though, as can be seen in the lack of voice acting in most of the game compared to original launch, low number of servers and unwillingness to add more than the bare minimum also says quite a lot about how the company views the game.

Expansions and content is linked to number of players so we will have to see how the game fairs given time, it's surely not everyones cup of tea. Nothing wrong with being a niche title, as long as that niche isn't too small to support a large dev team or publish expansions that might not have very good sales.

None of us really know how it will go but given that almost every single mmo launched since WoW has flat out failed and most gone free to play it's hard to see what this game has that will make this game any different. I certainly can't see anything that is a difference maker in that regard here.

Yeah I know it was a very long a tedious process. The game was design in a different era. When it was released it was fun, I've met good people but then things just went south. Joined a LS, got sky, I never did limbus etc. I actually got sea solo with the level increase. It was like another job. I was in this one LS and I was leveling a job in CN and the leader of the LS was like we have sky now, everyone drop what you doing and head to sky. He would get angry even though there was ample people already there. So I joined a social LS and I just took it easy. Quit a few times. Came back when Aby was released then quit now for good. I felt like it was alot of work for gears that don't make sense. A freaking EP can kill you...man im so done with that game.

**** i hope most of the people leave, NOT like a huge amount but for the people who (i know cliche) didn't grow up playing FF series won't appreciate the depth this game is starting to dig into, which to me i did not get to fully play 11 because i got to the game way to late as my parents hated monthly payments on games. but i will say they are making strides in 14 and for the people who do not think it will last a year, then you aren't playing it right, I've made multiple friends on my server and have had an excellent time raiding with strangers ive never met before and learned a lot from, just shut up play the game if you like it, and wait patiently. it gonna get better always, **** i mean comon they finally started adding "NM" style fates like Odin, give it time, it will flourish.

What always clams me down is a nice walk in the desert trial behind my house!

People these days tend to think that a game that started sub based going F2P is some sort of a failure. I don't understand it. I wonder if F2P games switching to sub based models would be seen as successful.

It will last as long as the people enjoying it want in to last.

Sorry you won't be there?

Makes no never mind.

Or will you scold them for not holding hate? Serious bizniss.

I don't know....a lot of people in my free company came from other MMO's like WoW, FFXI, and SWTOR and are already getting bored of the game. I'm kind of getting bored of it as well now that I've been grinding the same few dungeons over and over and over at 50. The journey and story was fun but the end game is just awful. The materia system is even more dumb. I either have to level up a trade class or find somebody with that trade to meld on materia for me. It just makes the game more cumbersome and have to run around trying to find somebody to meld stuff either by tell (a lot of people just ignore you) or spam the chat with your shouts which usually gets overlooked because of all the gold seller spammers. Also there's a lot of noob tanks that doesn't know the basics of holding aggro even at 50 thanks to fate grinds.

Edited, Sep 14th 2013 7:04am by WinterWindstrife

Start shooting yourself because it's a common mistake I tend to make and not on purpose.

And you're not allowed to use real bullets.

Edited, Sep 14th 2013 8:17am by TwilightSkye

Free to play did exist in virtual worlds. They got away with it because the worlds were pretty sh*tty and largely driven by user created content. (For example, Cybertown.) Other worlds had cash shops long before it was cool, such as Dreamscape.

Stop making sh*t up. FFXI charged a sub fee because, like Everquest, SE intended to keep a dedicated support team on hand wanted to be able to pay those folks salaries.

Edited, Sep 14th 2013 10:05am by Catwho