Hyrist wrote:
So you find absolutely no enjoyment in the starting quests or the leve system?
You might be right then. I can't imagine why you can't manage to grunt for a couple hours past the first 15 levels of a class, but different strokes for different folks.
I wouldn't recommend any MMO to you with that sort of attention span, however.
You might be right then. I can't imagine why you can't manage to grunt for a couple hours past the first 15 levels of a class, but different strokes for different folks.
I wouldn't recommend any MMO to you with that sort of attention span, however.
I get that most people probably did suck it up and spam boring, repetitive and tedious leves(or get PL'd') until they capped. The problem is that this does nothing at all to address the biggest issue they're facing.
You shouldn't feel like you're doing chores. It's possible to make something a timesink while not completely abandoning the fact that your goal is to create a game that people can enjoy. The question in most prospective new and returning players minds is "What is going to keep me interested until I can participate in things like instances, grand company, new jobs, Ifrit and Garuda, ect.?"
Like I said before, people are going to come back, realize they don't have enough time to get to where they need to be to get a taste of what they should be experiencing(content that has been added since they left) and promptly uninstall. Implement something that will keep new and returning players interested between the landmark levels and you've got a foundation to stretch out on. Until then, you're only creating and expanding a game for people who already subscribe.
I'd go so far as to say that most players who stuck it out(at least at one point) only did so because they didn't want to be left behind should XIV turn itself around and become a good game. Ironically, the side effect is that it's keeping the game from picking up new players it desperately needs to turn that corner...
